Washington D.C. [USA], Feb. 22 : Riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in the northern suburbs of Stockholm just two days after U.S.
President Donald Trump sparked outcry and confusion by seeming to incorrectly imply that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden.
According to the Washington Post, a crowd in Rinkeby neighborhood burned about half a dozen cars, vandalized several shopfronts and threw rocks at police.
Some reports suggested that the Monday clashes started when police arrested a suspect and people started throwing stones at them.
Rinkeby was also the scene of riots in 2010 and 2013. Trump during a Saturday rally in Florida had said "look what's happening last night in Sweden" as a reference to a supposed frightening security episode in the country.
The President clarified his remarks a day after on Twitter saying that he drew his claim about immigrant violence in Sweden from a Fox News segment in which two Swedish police officers were interviewed.
Source: ANI
