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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Sweden’s failed integration creates ‘parallel societies’, says PM after riots

Cars were set on fire in the Rosengård district of Malmö, with riots in several Swedish towns over the Easter weekend.
Cars were set on fire in the Rosengård district of Malmö, with riots in several Swedish towns over the Easter weekend. Photograph: Tt News Agency/Reuters

Sweden’s prime minister has said the Scandinavian country has failed to integrate many of the immigrants who have settled there over the past 20 years, creating a nation of “parallel societies … living in different realities”.

Unveiling a series of measures to tackle organised crime after violent riots over the Easter weekend that left more than 100 police injured, Magdalena Andersson said Islamism and rightwing extremism had been allowed to fester in Sweden.

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