In an emailed statement to CNN, Swedish police said that while riots like those on Monday night are unusual, it is not the first time unrest has broken out in Rinkeby.
In 2013, large scale riots flared for a week in the Swedish capital, with gangs setting fire to schools and a police station.
At a rally in Florida on Saturday, the President remarked: “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.”
However, a former US ambassador told CNN that the country is perfectly safe regardless of the influx of refugees in recent years.
“The crime rate has not skyrocketed,” Azita Raji told CNN’s Chris Cuomo, citing data showing a weak correlation between terrorism and the migrations.
And Trump’s statements left many Swedish residents puzzled.
Djamel Zeghachov, a driver in Stockholm, told CNN: “We were like, what’s happened right now? Has somebody stolen our meatballs? People were laughing about it.”
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