"Police shooting sparks riot in Sweden" Associated Press, May 21, 2013
STOCKHOLM — Gangs of youth angered by the police shooting death of an elderly man in a mainly immigrant neighborhood hurled rocks at police and set cars and buildings on fire in a Stockholm suburb early Monday, forcing the evacuation of an apartment block.
Around 50 youths were involved in the riots in the suburb of Husby, police spokesman Lars Bystrom said.
The youths set afire a parking garage, compelling police to evacuate residents from an adjacent apartment block, Bystrom said. Residents were allowed to return home after a couple of hours.
Around 80 percent of the roughly 11,000 people living in Husby — a drab apartment block neighborhood west of Stockholm — are first- or second-generation immigrants.
Bystrom said police responded to calls of burning cars and were met by masked youths hurling rocks at them.
One policeman was attacked by youths kicking him and two others were injured by rocks, local police officer Jorgen Karlsson said. About 10 cars were set ablaze, he added, and windows were smashed at two schools and several local businesses.
Residents said they had gathered to protest against the shooting death and that police responded by sending in SWAT teams that cordoned off the area. ‘‘I understand that people react like this,’’ said Rami Al-Khamisi from the organization Megafonen, which represents citizens in Stockholm’s suburbs.
Police have launched an internal investigation into the shooting death on May 13 of a 69-year-old man in Husby. They say they shot him in self-defense because he had attacked police with a knife when they broke down the door to the apartment, where he had locked himself.
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