What the records say
- When
- 29 Aug 2020 – 30 Aug 2020
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 55.90° N, 14.14° E
- Description
- August 2020 riots in Sweden
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2020 Sweden riots
2020 riots in Sweden
On 29 August 2020, riots broke out in the Swedish cities of Malmö and Ronneby. After Swedish police prevented Rasmus Paludan, a Danish politician convicted of various crimes including indictment against an ethnic group, from entering the country, a far-right anti-immigration group held protests and burned a Quran. In response, a group of 300 counter protestors, gathered, the protest descending into a riot.
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Riots broke out in Malmö and Ronneby”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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