The Swedish riots: What really happened? Inequality, not immigration, was what sparked the unrest. On the evening of Monday 13 May, police were called to an address in Husby, a suburb in north-west Stockholm, on accounts that a male occupant was threateningly brandishing what looked to be a machete. Two stories emerged as to why the man had a knife. The first – and most widely circulated – said th
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