As Twitchy reported Monday night, at least 60 cars had been set on fire in different cities in Sweden by masked youth, who reportedly set up barricades and threw rocks and debris at police.
Now authorities and media outlets are saying perhaps 80 or even 100 cars were set on fire across Sweden.
In one night, more than 80 cars were set on fire in cities across southwestern Sweden https://t.co/8yGyNlH4mi #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/Wp7VuQ6Ugj
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) August 14, 2018
If you watch Bloomberg’s video, you’ll see that it’s the Democrat’s “pouncing” on the incident — with the Democrats being the nationalist party there, so it’s like Republicans pouncing.
Swedish youths burned dozens of cars last night — now the prime minister is livid https://t.co/TeCRErHKWO
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 14, 2018
I guess all the years of attacks on Jews in Malmö never rose to the level of livid https://t.co/NDrnTszm21
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) August 14, 2018
Sheesh, I wonder what ever could have gotten into those Swedish youths?
— elapresta (@elapresta) August 14, 2018
Dozens of cars set alight in Sweden, in what police say may be co-ordinated criminal action https://t.co/gakm1awyTu
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 14, 2018
The BBC says 80 cars were set on fire and quotes Prime Minister Stefan Lofven a saying, “It looks like very coordinated, almost like a military operation.”
80 cars destroyed as youths set cars on fire in Swedish night of mayhem.
This mostly happened in problem areas and ghettos.
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) August 14, 2018
What we saw in Sweden last night was something new.
It seemed to be co-coordinated riots happening across the country in several different cities at the same time.
I don't think we have seen it on this scale before.
This is a scary situation that they now are organizing.
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) August 14, 2018
UPDATE on the riots in Sweden yesterday.
The latest number is that around 150 cars were set on fire last night. This is absolutely insane.
Also the police are now gathering extra resources as they fear the violence might continue tonight as well.
I will keep you updated.
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) August 14, 2018
Previous riots in Sweden have been blamed on “youth unemployment and resentment among asylum seekers,” but AJ+, the online presence of Al Jazeera, notes that some left-wing politicians are suggesting the whole thing was a false-flag operation to gin up anti-immigrant sentiment before the upcoming elections.
Masked youths set fire to 100 cars in towns across Sweden, mostly in areas affected by underemployment. Some left-wing politicians say the coordinated attacks may have been organized by far-right activists trying to boost anti-immigrant sentiment ahead of elections. pic.twitter.com/elA3w6s754
— AJ+ (@ajplus) August 14, 2018
All incidents in #Göteborg occured in certain areas where refugees and Swedes who were born outside #Sweden is an evidence that there is a force trying to label those people as criminals. Fighting far right and nazis is by voting. We vote for better Sweden.
— Dr. Abdalhadi Alijla (@Abdalhadihadi) August 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/LindquistLord/status/1029149508104597504
https://twitter.com/LawrenceWarneke/status/1029484248313540611
We’ll keep an eye on Sweden tonight as well.
Related:
WARZONE: Those "youths" in Sweden seem to be rioting and torching cars again (video) https://t.co/QIukvI2YuQ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 14, 2018
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