Stockholm restaurant burnt down as Sweden unrest spreads

Firemen extinguish a burning car in Kista after youths protested in few different suburbs around Stockholm on May 21, 2013.

Angry youths have torched a restaurant and more than 30 cars in the suburbs of the Swedish capital in protest against the police shooting of a 69-year-old man.

At least 30 cars were set on fire in western and southern Stockholm on Thursday, police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said.

A restaurant in Skogas, south of the capital, was also burnt down in a fourth night of the unrest, Lindgren said, adding that three police officers were injured as the angry youths pelted them with stones.

The unrest began in Husby suburb on Sunday, days after police shot dead an elderly man who had locked himself in an apartment in the poor neighborhood west of Stockholm.

On Wednesday, hundreds of demonstrators broke windows and torched cars in Stockholm suburbs that are mainly populated by immigrants and asylum seekers.

Police said two cars were also torched in the southern city of Malmo earlier in the day.

On Tuesday, a police station in the northwest of Stockholm was attacked, two schools were damaged and a local arts center was set alight during the unrest.

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt called for calm, saying, “We have groups of young men who think that they can and should change society with violence.”

The riots in one of Europe’s richest capitals have shocked a country that prides itself on a reputation for social justice, and fuelled a debate about how Sweden is coping with both youth unemployment and an influx of immigrants.
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Sheha avamiwa, amwagiwa tindikali Z’bar

By Khatib Suleiman, Zanzibar
     

MATUKIO ya kujichukulia sheria mkononi yameendelea kujitokeza hapa, na juzi jioni Sheha wa Shehia (Kata) ya Tomondo Mkoa wa Mjini Magharibi, Unguja Mohammed Omar Said `Kidevu’ alivamiwa na watu wasiojulikana na kisha kummwagia tindikali ambayo imemjeruhi vibaya sehemu ya kifua na jicho la kulia.

Kamishna Msaidizi wa Jeshi la Polisi Zanzibar, Mkadam Khamis Mkadam amethibitisha tukio hilo na kusema Sheha Omar ameumia vibaya sehemu ya kifua na jicho. Akifafanua zaidi, alisema kwa sasa Jeshi la Polisi linafanya uchunguzi zaidi kuhusu tukio hilo.

Inadaiwa aliyefanya kitendo hicho alificha sura yake kwa kuvaa soksi. Mkadam alisema kwa sasa polisi wanashikilia chupa moja ikiwa na maji maji yanayosadikiwa kuwa ni tindikali iliyotumika kumjeruhi sheha huyo.
“Jeshi la Polisi linaendelea na uchunguzi kuhusu tukio hili ambapo katika hatua za awali tunafanya uchunguzi wa chupa yenye maji maji yanayosadikiwa kuwa na tindikali,” alisema.

Kidevu (61) alipata kuwa mchezaji maarufu wa timu ya Taifa ya Zanzibar pamoja na timu ya Kikosi cha KMKM iliyotamba katika miaka ya 1976, kwa mujibu wa taarifa za aliyekuwa Katibu wa KMKM Mussa Soraga.

Daktari mmoja anayefanya kazi katika Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais ambaye alishiriki katika hatua za awali za kutoa matibabu, alisema sheha huyo ameumia sehemu ya jicho la kulia.

“Tumemfanyia matibabu ya kwanza na tumebaini kwamba ameumia vibaya sehemu ya kifua pamoja na jicho moja la kulia,” alisema. Daktari Mwandamizi katika Hospitali ya Mnazi Mmoja aliyejitambulisha kwa jina la Juma aliitaka Serikali kudhibiti matumizi ya tindikali dhidi ya mashambulizi ya binadamu.

“Serikali inatakiwa kuweka sheria kali kudhibiti matumizi ya tindikali kwa sababu yanaweza kuleta madhara makubwa ikiwemo watu kupata ulemavu wa maisha'' alisema. Ofisa ambaye hata hivyo alisema si msemaji, kutoka Wizara ya Nchi Ofisi ya Rais na Mwenyekiti wa Baraza la Mapinduzi anayeshughulikia tawala za mikoa, alithibitisha kupokea taarifa ya kujeruhiwa kwa sheha huyo wa Tomondo.

“Tumepokea taarifa ya kujeruhiwa sheha wa Tomondo na kwa sasa tunalifanyia kazi shauri hilo zaidi suala zima la matibabu yake,” alisema ofisa huyo.

Matukio ya watu kumwagiwa tindikali yanaonekana kukithiri Zanzibar. Mwaka jana, Naibu wa Mufti Mkuu Sheikh Fadhil Soraga alijeruhiwa vibaya kwa tindikali wakati akifanya mazoezi ya asubuhi hapo Mwanakwerekwe.

Aidha aliyekuwa Mkurugenzi wa Manispaa, Rashid Ali Juma ambaye kwa sasa ni mjumbe wa Halmashauri Kuu ya CCM (NEC) naye alimwagiwa tindikali usoni na kifuani na kulazimika kusafirishwa hadi Hospitali ya Taifa ya Muhimbili, Dar es Salaam na baadaye kulazwa Aga Khan na kusafirishwa India kwa uchunguzi zaidi.