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Stockholm experienced a sixth straight night of riots early Saturday,
with cars torched in several immigrant-dominated suburbs, as Britain and
the United States warned against travelling to the hotspots.
Nearly a week of unrest, which spread briefly Friday night to the
medium-sized city of Örebro 160 kilometres west of Stockholm, have put
Sweden's reputation as an oasis of peace and harmony at risk.
The unrest has also sparked a debate among Swedes over the
integration of immigrants, many of whom arrived under the country's
generous asylum policies,
and who now make up about 15 percent of the population.
and who now make up about 15 percent of the population.
An AFP photographer witnessed a car engulfed in flames before
firefighters arrived in the Stockholm district of Tensta. Cars were
incinerated in three other areas of the capital as well, according to
the Swedish news agency TT.
"I've never before taken part in anything that lasted so long and was
spread over such a wide area," police spokesman Lars Byström told TT.
Another police official said earlier that Stockholm police were about
to receive reinforcements from Gothenburg and Malmö, the country's
second- and third-largest cities, but declined to disclose how many
would arrive.
In the city of Örebro, police reported a fire at a school as well as
several cars ablaze, but quiet had returned around midnight. The unrest
in Stockholm had "rubbed off", police told TT.
The nightly riots have prompted Britain's Foreign Office and the US
embassy in Stockholm to issue warnings to their nationals, urging them
to avoid the affected suburbs.
Firefighters were dispatched to 70 fires the night between Thursday
and Friday, extinguishing torched cars, dumpsters and buildings,
including three schools and a police station, the fire department wrote
on Twitter. This was down from 90 blazes the night before.
Parents and volunteer organisations who have patrolled the streets in
recent nights have helped decrease the intensity of the unrest, police
have said.
Police, who have so far concentrated on putting out fires, are
beginning to round up people suspected of criminal acts, so far
arresting at least 29.
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