2008 Malmö mosque riots

Riots in Rosengård in Malmö, Sweden April 2024 On 18 and 20 December 2008, the closure of an Islamic cultural centre that housed a mosque in the Herrgården neighborhood of the Malmö district of Rosengård, in southern Sweden, caused hundreds of youths to riot against police.Stockholm police call in reinforcements as cars torched Daily News Egypt 24 May 2013 1355214472 Rioting Rioting was sparked when the owner of a building in Rosengård decided not to renew the lease on the space used by the Islamiska Kulturföreningen (The Islamic Culture Association).Rogowski Theo Hagman Rosengård Riots: Eight Years Later https://www.vice.com/en_se/article/looking-back-at-the-rosengard-riots-eight-years-ago-928 23 March 2017 Vice 12 December 2016 24 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170324083613/https://www.vice.com/en_se/article/looking-back-at-the-rosengard-riots-eight-years-ago-928 dead The directors of the mosque and cultural center turned over the keys and vacated the premises, but angry youths occupied the building's basement in protest. The basement occupation went on for three weeks, at the end of which police coming to evict the occupiers were confronted by about 30 occupiers, including radicalized Muslims and activists affiliated with the radical leftist Antifascistisk Aktion.https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/malmo-polisforstarkning-till-rosengard Malmö – Polisförstärkning till Rosengård Nyheter SVT 2008-12-19 SVT Nyheter 2018-08-16 sv The occupiers attacked police with pipe bombs and rocks and the incident rapidly escalated, with protestors arriving from other cities and officials calling in riot police. Rioting continued for two nights; additional police had to be called in form Gothenburg and Stockholm to quell the violence.Anti-police Riots Ease in Sweden al Jazeera 20 December 2008 431284589 Rioters set fire to cars, wagons, kiosks, building sheds, recycling stations, and bicycle sheds.http://www.smp.se/nyheter/sverige/article1046376.ece February 2022 After two nights of rioting, 200 adult Malmö residents organized by the Islamiska kulturföreningen moved into the streets to mediate, causing the youthful rioters to desist. See also 2009 Malmö Davis Cup riots 2010 Rinkeby riots References Category:2000s in Malmö Category:Riots and civil disorder in Sweden Category:2008 riots Category:2008 in Sweden Category:Protests in Sweden Category:December 2008 in Europe