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Swedish journalist ATTACKED after gang of youths ignite INFERNO near housing estate
A JOURNALIST has been injured and a huge fire has engulfed a Swedish estate agents after a gang of rioters hurled a burning box into one of its local offices.
By Aletha Adu
PUBLISHED: 00:46, Fri, Feb 24, 2017 | UPDATED: 02:17, Fri, Feb 24, 2017
 

Flames began to engulf the OBO housing company, situated within the central Swedish city of Örebro at 10pm GMT (9pm local time), according to SVT.
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A local reporter from the Swedish newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda received major head injuries after an arsonist threw a large block of ice at his head when he arrived at the scene.

Officials have not yet reported any other injuries or fatalities.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/771469/Swedish-journalist-Nerikes-Allehanda-attacked-gang-OBO-vivalla-fire-housing-Obrero-Trump
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There can't possibly be any problems, since the Swedish government says so.

Here is what Al Jazeera had to say about the situation, last year. You don't have to read far, to see that even that source depicts big problems.

Sweden's backlash: Why the tide is turning for refugees

09 Apr 2016

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In the past 10 years, the numbers have taken off and in 2015, nearly 163,000 individuals applied for asylum in Sweden, a nation of 9.8 million people.

Syrians accounted for 51,000 of these asylum seekers, 41,000 came from Afghanistan, 20,000 from Iraq, along with thousands from Eritrea, Somalia and Iran. A combined 4,000 came from Albania and Kosovo.

Today, around 1.6 million people living in Sweden were born in another country - that is 16 percent of the population.

Many new arrivals are languishing in temporary housing, beggars and homeless live in the streets, and some neighbourhoods have seen an uptick in violence and extremism.

Concerns over security are growing and recent information about members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) living in Sweden and going to fight in Syria has received lots of media attention. According to Swedish police, around 300 people, many of them from the city of Gothenburg, are believed to have gone to Syria.

Then there's violent crime - in the past several months murders and assaults have taken place in asylum centres and in neighbourhoods with large numbers of immigrants.

The Sweden Democrats, the only party that has been advocating a more restrictive immigration policy, is now the third largest party in opinion polls, despite efforts by established political parties to isolate it.

So, what is behind the recent backlash against immigration in Sweden? Why is the tide turning for refugees in Sweden?

Al Jazeera went to the Swedish community of Ostra Goinge, an area that has received a number of new immigrants, to speak to citizens and politicians about the country's immigration policies.

Mayor Patric Aberg is a member of the Moderate Party, traditionally seen as a business-friendly party opposed to the ruling Social Democrats. He is calling for a "pause" to accepting applications for asylum. While he speaks of economic benefits he says there's a need to foster better "social integration".

"In Sweden right now I think we need a pause. In a very short period of time, since June last year, we have received more than 100,000 refugees. As you may have seen here in our community, we have very few apartments, we don't see a growth of jobs enough to employ all those coming ... We cannot in such a short period of time take care of so many people, our system cannot handle this," Aberg says.

"You look around the world and you hear reports about what's going on in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe and ask: will the people arriving here bring these problems with them? And I think this spread of fear is growing and we really need to work hard to ease their fear. It's not as unsafe as people think. But it's a feeling people have and we should take it seriously," he says.

Locals in Ostra Goinge have mixed feelings about refugees and migrants settling in Sweden.

"I guess they are all doing the best they can... but, well, I guess we have too many immigrants. It's been hard on the schools and our welfare system ... We have received so many, and it takes time for them to integrate ... We have had problems with break-ins here, I have had a break in. That's something I never experienced before," says citizen Maria Alm.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/inthefield/2016/04/sweden-backlash-tide-turning-refugees-160408180758209.html
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