02. nov. 2005 10.22 English Opdat.: 02. nov. 2005 11.22
Police in Århus have announced a zero tolerance policy over for the troublemakers who have been rampaging through a suburb of Århus during the weekend.
The area of Viby, just outside central Århus has witnessed a spate of riots all weekend with shop windows being smashed, a kindergarten burnt out and general violence occurring between mainly young people with immigrant backgrounds and the police.
The zero tolerance hard-line has met criticism from an expert in youth research. Susasne Branner Jespersen said that a zero tolerance stance only increases the hatred between the youths and police.
The Mayor of Århus Louise Gade dismissed the concerns of experts and said that a hard-line must be taken with these troublemakers so ordinary law-abiding citizens could feel safe in their homes.
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Several days of Muslim Riots in Denmark
Jyllands Posten ^ | Offentliggjort 31. oktober 2005 03:00 | Af ERIK THOMLE
For several nights in a row, there has been the worst riots in Århus for many years.
"This land belongs to us", declared the young rioters. Another arson attack took place sunday night.
Sunday evening the fire department needed police escorts to get in and extinguish an arsonist fire in Søndervangs Alle.
The words of the young muslims sound like an open declaration of war against Danish society. The police must stay away. This area belongs to immigrants.
Four youngsters sit at the wall in the Rosenhøj center, sunday afternoon, self decleared spokesmen, for those groups who three nights in a row has rioted, and put business on fire.
All around the parking lot, there are swarms of cars with youngster from the immigrant community, who are celebrating the worst riots in Århus in several years.
Every night, 30 to 40 immigrant youngsters participated. Only two are under arrest.
It was a victory.
"We knew that you would come. We are the spokesmen", said one young man with his face covered.
He was angry. Very angry.
Petrol though the window.
At the back of the house was a window broken, and the fire was burning wildly, probably because of petrol that had been thrown in.
The fire engines waited for police escort so they could enter in and try to put out the fires.
Bricks from the street have been thrown and crushed windowns all up the street.
The police reports that the youngsters came to the area armed with rocks that they brought in.
Rocks against a bakery.
Saturday, a 16 year old from Somalia was jailed for comitting dangerous violence, because he attacked a bakery with large rocks. One rock barely missed the bakers face.
Raids.
"We are tired of being oppressed. We are tired of the police raiding our parents. We are tired of the police stopping our cars, and raids us in public and damages our honour.»
"We are tired of the police beating up our friends, like they did this afternoon", screams the younf man with his face covered.
He calles himself 100 percent palestinian, born in a refugee camp in Lebanon, 19 years ago, and is now unemployed in Denmark.
"The police has to stay away. This is our area. We rule this place"
And then comes the cartoons of Mohammed.
"We are angy to what has happened to our profet. We are tired of the Jyllands Post (Danish paper who published cartoons of Mohammed). I know that it wasn't you, but we are not going to take this, what the Jyllands Post has done towards the profet", he states aggressivly, and the others nod in agreement.
Planned for three weeeks.
Two of them are Turks, and it is the first time that Turks and Palestinians have joined forces, according to the spokesman.
"We have planned this for three weeks. That's why only two were arrested on Saturday. Police tried to block us in, but we now how to get out", he states and dissapears chewing on a piece of pizza that he has looted from Fun Pizza.
"We are tired of being oppressed. We are tired of the police raiding our parents. We are tired of the police stopping our cars, and raids us in public and damages our honour.»
"We are tired of the police beating up our friends, like they did this afternoon", screams the younf man with his face covered.
He calles himself 100 percent palestinian, born in a refugee camp in Lebanon, 19 years ago, and is now unemployed in Denmark.
"The police has to stay away. This is our area. We rule this place"
It sounds like here. Shudder.
I'm in favour of zero tolerance on public disorder; I've seen first hand what happens when experts who tell you that police action isn't the way to go are listened to.
Police are not mediators, they are not community workers, they are not politicians; they are there to enforce the law and protect people.
I think a multi-layered approach is best- try and work out some points with those involved, use necessary means to keep order, and try and work on inclusion, thus bleedy away the key angry young man support base.
But that passage I picked out above illustrates quite clearly why the police need the powers to go in there and get arrests. I'm against heavy police work, as a rule, but when there's a threat to public disorder, that's when they need to be allowed to operate effectively.
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the problem is that the many immigrants want to live in the same way as they did in their original country beating their women but with a major difference...a great wellfare system supporting them
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