https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed At least 10 people were arrested, and several police officers injured, in violence which broke out in southern Sweden after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Koran-burning rally, police said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.se/20200829/riot-in-malm-after-anti-muslim-danish-leader-banned Sat, 29 Aug 2020 09:37:28 +0200 riot-in-malm-after-anti-muslim-danish-leader-banned A 64-year-old man who was found by police wounded in a car in Rosengård on Saturday is suspected of having attempted to threaten another man – but ended up accidentally shooting himself. https://www.thelocal.se/20190813/malmo-police-man-found-injured-actually-shot-himself-by-accident Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:45:29 +0200 malmo-police-man-found-injured-actually-shot-himself-by-accident Police in the Swedish city of Malmö have arrested five men on suspiction of carrying out an armed robbery at an apartment in the district of Rosengård. https://www.thelocal.se/20190515/five-held-after-armed-robbery-in-malm-apartment Wed, 15 May 2019 16:45:27 +0200 five-held-after-armed-robbery-in-malm-apartment When Malmö mayor Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh and a group of local politicians stepped off a specially chartered train in the troubled district of Rosengård in December, she made big claims for the new ring line she was launching. https://www.thelocal.se/20190227/ring-to-bind-malmo-hopes-a-new-rail-line-will-fight-segregation Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:13:24 +0100 ring-to-bind-malmo-hopes-a-new-rail-line-will-fight-segregation A young man has been seized on suspicion of carrying out a gun murder in July in the Malmö district of Rosengård, in a further sign that police are closing in on the gangs behind recent shootings. https://www.thelocal.se/20181017/man-seized-in-stockholm-for-rosengrd-shooting Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:03:24 +0200 man-seized-in-stockholm-for-rosengrd-shooting When Malmö's Örtagårdsskolan was built in 1970, the idea was that it would draw pupils both from the newly built Rosengård district to the north, and from the middle-class area of detached houses to the south. https://www.thelocal.se/20181015/how-malmo-turned-around-some-of-its-worst-schools Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:25:33 +0200 how-malmo-turned-around-some-of-its-worst-schools A man was knifed to death at a mall in the centre of Malmö's Rosengård district on Tuesday morning, with a suspect seized shortly afterwards in a nearby apartment. https://www.thelocal.se/20181009/man-stabbed-to-death-in-rosengrd-shopping-mall Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:13:12 +0200 man-stabbed-to-death-in-rosengrd-shopping-mall Police are investigating after a man was shot dead in the Rosengård district of Malmö last night. https://www.thelocal.se/20180717/man-killed-in-malmo-shooting-sweden Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:27:06 +0200 man-killed-in-malmo-shooting-sweden Officers armed with Heckler & Koch MP5 machine guns have been stationed outside two police stations in Malmö in a move intended to ward off “vengeance attacks” from criminals. https://www.thelocal.se/20180204/officers-with-machine-guns-posted-at-malm-police-stations Sun, 04 Feb 2018 15:43:47 +0100 officers-with-machine-guns-posted-at-malm-police-stations The detonation of an explosive object outside a police station in Rosengård was a response from criminals to the pressure being put on them, Malmö's police chief said. https://www.thelocal.se/20180118/two-men-arrested-after-blast-at-rosengard-police-station-malmo-sweden Thu, 18 Jan 2018 08:55:21 +0100 two-men-arrested-after-blast-at-rosengard-police-station-malmo-sweden A man was taken to hospital after a shooting in the Rosengård district of Malmö on Friday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.se/20170707/man-injured-in-shooting-in-rosengard-malmo-sweden Fri, 07 Jul 2017 18:23:24 +0200 man-injured-in-shooting-in-rosengard-malmo-sweden Former football World Player of the Year Marta, who is often regarded as the best female footballer of all time, has taken Swedish citizenship. https://www.thelocal.se/20170315/five-time-world-player-of-the-year-is-now-a-swede Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:19:48 +0100 five-time-world-player-of-the-year-is-now-a-swede Neither "no-go zones" nor "particularly vulnerable areas" adequately describe the problems in places like Rinkeby, argues Demoskop's Peter Santesson. https://www.thelocal.se/20170307/opinion-would-you-dare-to-testify-if-you-lived-in-rinkeby-or-rosengard Tue, 07 Mar 2017 07:59:00 +0100 opinion-would-you-dare-to-testify-if-you-lived-in-rinkeby-or-rosengard Politicians and Malmö residents gathered in front of city hall on Monday to protest against a wave of violence after a 16-year-old boy was killed in the Rosengård district last week. https://www.thelocal.se/20170116/i-dont-let-my-little-brother-go-out-at-night-any-more Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:30:22 +0100 i-dont-let-my-little-brother-go-out-at-night-any-more Many were mourning in Malmö on Friday after a 16-year-old boy was shot dead in the city. https://www.thelocal.se/20170113/fear-and-anger-after-teen-shot-dead-in-malm Fri, 13 Jan 2017 17:09:11 +0100 fear-and-anger-after-teen-shot-dead-in-malm An 18-year-old woman has been taken to hospital after she was found with gunshot wounds in the Rosengård district of Malmö in the early hours of Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20170103/woman-18-found-with-gunshot-wounds-in-malm Tue, 03 Jan 2017 09:17:48 +0100 woman-18-found-with-gunshot-wounds-in-malm A 24-year-old man shot in Malmö’s Rosengård district this summer may have survived because one the bullets fired at him was deflected by a five kronor coin he had in his bag, a police investigation has found. https://www.thelocal.se/20160904/five-kronor-coin-stopped-bullet-shot-at-malm-man Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:22:15 +0200 five-kronor-coin-stopped-bullet-shot-at-malm-man A 22-year-old man has been arrested in Malmö on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly shot another man at the Rosengård Centrum shopping mall in the south of the city last week. https://www.thelocal.se/20160802/suspected-malmo-shooter-hands-himself-in-to-police Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:56:06 +0200 suspected-malmo-shooter-hands-himself-in-to-police International media have presented a "distorted" view of a spate of Malmö shootings and an explosion, a senior police boss has told The Local. https://www.thelocal.se/20160729/what-do-we-actually-know-about-the-violence-in-malm Fri, 29 Jul 2016 18:12:49 +0200 what-do-we-actually-know-about-the-violence-in-malm Malmö police are looking for a 22-year-old suspect in connection with a shooting at a shopping centre in Rosengård. https://www.thelocal.se/20160727/police-hunt-suspected-gunman-22-in-malm Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:49:48 +0200 police-hunt-suspected-gunman-22-in-malm