The warning signs had been there for a very long time.
SWEDEN RIOT: Police forced to shoot at protesters as violence erupts – yet PM is in denial
No suspects have been arrested after the clashes, however officers are treating the incident as a riot and assault on police. The shocking attack on officers came after President Trump told a rally in Florida over the weekend that Sweden was facing a crisis after Fox News aired a segment where a gloomy picture of Sweden was portrayed.
Riots erupt in Sweden’s capital just days after Trump comments
Just two days after President Trump provoked widespread consternation by seeming to imply, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in the northern suburbs of the country’s capital, Stockholm. The neighborhood, Rinkeby, was the scene of riots in 2010 and 2013, too.