Posted on 01/28/2016 3:22:34 AM PST by knighthawk
Staff at a home for refugee children in southern Sweden were forced to barricade themselves in a room on Wednesday night, after 19 young men in their care rioted and attacked them with weapons.
The employees were only freed when a squad of police cars arrived at the centre and arrested the alleged ringleaders behind the riot.
“There was a violent riot at the accommodation centre for unaccompanied refugee children,†Ingela Crona from the local police in Kalmar told Expressen. “They broke loose, and a total of 19 people banded together and did this.â€
According to Expressen, the young men were carrying makeshift weapons.
John Nilsson, also with the local police, told the Barometern newspaper that the riot had started after staff refused a request from one of the home’s residents.
"One of them was refused to buy sweets and became furious with the staff member. He collected together around fifteen friends and the staff were forced to shut themselves in while they broke windows and did what they liked."
Police last night seized two of the young men. One, a 16-year-old boy suspected of starting the riot, is still being held. The other has been released.
The local municipality in Emmaboda, near Kalmar, which oversees the home, has moved some of the children to another location to calm down the situation.
Problems at the hundreds of homes for unaccompanied minors which have opened across Sweden over the last year have been drawing more attention this week after one worker, 22-year-old Alexandra Mezher, was stabbed to death at a home in Mölndal, near Gothenburg, on Monday.
More than 35,000 unaccompanied refugee children came to Sweden in 2015, all but 2,847 of whom are male.
Biting the hand that feeds you is a rite of passage. /S
Yawn.
Europe is aware that we are not coming to save them this time right?
I mean...someone should tell them.
Or not.
They arrested 2 out of 15 rioters and released one?
They aren’t dealing with Sven here.
Hey eurocowards......have a nice day.
Hey eurocowards......have a nice day.
Whether they want it or not, they are in the middle of one and they are about to lose it.
This is what self-delusion and a complete misunderstanding of human nature brings to people.
We had the same thing happen here with the central American refugees. Grown men claiming to be teens.
That came up this morning while my family was discussing the situation. Legitimate records out of Central America are also hard to find.
Posted at Sipsey Street:
I should just go ahead and post it here.
I was somewhat surprised you hadn’t yet posted it as its own discussion.
I’m pretty tired and the hour is late. So to speak.
A lot of that going around.
They should try to understand what it was the staff did to outrage these innocent children and discipline the staff accordingly.
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