Swedish Police Authority Rioters: Vigilantes:[3] On 19 May 2013, violent disturbances broke out in Husby, a suburb dominated by immigrants and second-generation immigrant residents, including a substantial number from Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Iraq,[8] in northern Stockholm, Sweden.

[11] The Husby political group Megafonen published a blog post on 14 May, the day after the shooting, in which the deceased man was referred to as "non-white".

[14] The disturbances began on the night of Sunday 19 May 2013, when youths started setting cars on fire in Husby.

[22] In the meantime, the disturbances had spread to other parts of Sweden, including Örebro, while the situation in Husby where the trouble originated was reported to be under the complete control of law enforcement officers.

During the night, police arrested 18 right-wing extremists and confiscated their vehicle, which was full of weapons, only a few hours after they had joined the unrest.

Several cars belonging to local home care were set on fire in Lysekil in the west of Sweden.

[26] On the afternoon of Tuesday, 21 May, the Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt announced: "We've experienced two nights of serious unrest, vandalism and an intimidating atmosphere in Husby, and there is a risk that it will continue.

The disturbances also started a debate amongst Swedes over minority integration, many of whom had arrived as a result of the country's asylum policies.

[30] On 25 May, rap artist Timbuktu released "Budskapet", a Swedish version of the 1982 song "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, as a commentary on the disturbances.

One firefighter who was injured, Mattias Lassén, subsequently posted an open letter to the rioters on his Facebook page, asking "Why did you do this to me?

"[33] Reports suggested that the unrest had been fed by substandard schools and an undercurrent of racism,[34] unemployment, a failure to integrate minorities,[35] and rising social inequality.

[35] Others referred to the recent OECD report that showed a rapidly widening gap between Sweden's rich and poor.

[36] After Aftonbladet published figures indicating that 13 of the 16 youths arrested had police records, the Swedish criminologist Jerzy Sarnecki stated that he was not surprised.

[37] Sarnecki believes that the disturbances had not been caused by one single incident, but that the rioters were expressing a general dissatisfaction with unemployment levels, standards of education and the police service, and drew parallels with the 2011 England riots.

[37] A local political group, Megafonen, had claimed at the start of the disturbances that they were caused by the recent shooting by police of a 69-year-old man in Husby who had allegedly threatened to kill the officers with a machete.