Malmö firefighters demand police escorts

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Malmö firefighters demand police escorts

Published: 16 Jun 08 17:04 CET
Online: The Local - Malmö firefighters demand police escorts

Firefighters in Malmö in southern Sweden are demanding police escorts on calls. The firefighters have had enough of threats and violence in some of the city's rougher areas.

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After being attacked by stones on a recent call, they are threatening not to take calls to Rosengård without a police escort. They are also demanding shatterproof windows and surveillance cameras on their vehicles.

Bertil Ahlgren, a spokesman at Jägersros fire station where two of the men worked, told TT that their work situation was "completely unacceptable".

The firemen were attacked twice last week during calls in the city's Rosengård suburb.

In one case a youth pelted a fireman with stones, while another fireman was attacked by a barrage of raw eggs. Attila Jensen, district chief for the Jägersros rescue services told TT that they view this very seriously.

"One shouldn't need to find oneself under a stoning attack when one is out performing one's job".

Attacks on rescue services staff and police have increased in recent years, but so far there is no central data recording the incidents. Kenneth Carlsson, a spokesman for the firefighters' union described this trend as nasty.

"We would like to see a central register created so that we could get an overview of all the incidents".

The rescue services in southern Sweden have now agreed to put in a series of measures to improve fire fighter's working conditions, including stronger cooperation with the police, reinforced vehicle windows and the possibility of surveillance cameras.

Other more long-term measures include the recruitment of firefighters with immigrant backgrounds.

The rescue services have also put in almost three million kronor ($496,500) into a three-year research project at Malmö College to raise awareness and understanding for the reasons behind these type of attacks.

"The point is to create a better dialogue between the authorities and certain population groups", Per Olof Hallin, project manager at the Malmö College, told TT.


TT/Claudia Rodas

The Local - Malmö firefighters demand police escorts

Overhere in Berlin policemen have Muslim bodyguards...otherwise they wouldn't be able to patrol certain areas anymore. Sometimes they are accompanied by Imams who try to de-escalate violent situations.

Neues aus Absurdistan (10.06.08) | Altermedia Deutschland - Störtebeker-Netz

(German)

[Kernunnos]

Foolish, foolish, foolish.

Sweden is the country where the most adamantine social democratic "integration" policy has been put in place.

What becomes foolproof evident is that they do not want to assimilate, but to rule over us.

recently, italian prominent banker Profumo said in speech we all need to be tolerant with immigration since it has increased bank loans by 20%. More clear than this ... we have to be blind to the fact that immigration destroys our societies.

[ares]

Stupidity reigns supreme. I would like to know what passes through the minds of the other europeans when reading something like this. This is really grave, and people do not really grasp its full extent.

You know why? Because of the full belly syndrome.

That's why I pray for something to happen that will shock people into action and that will tear the veil from their eyes. Not just a riot like in Paris, something much bigger. A cataclysm.

Not because I want destruction and death but because that is what is needed and what this will take.

And maybe this cataclysm is not too far away either, what with the oil crisis and all.

I know the above sounds dramatic. That is how I feel.

[Weltschmerz]

It's a good thing the fire department has the guts to speak about it. Why not declare the area where emergency vehicles and firefighters cannot go without getting attacked - or without getting orders from aliens about who they can give help and treatment and who they shall leave to die - why not declare it a warzone? Not even the police can go there without police escort. They trash any police car in the area if they can, so that the officers have to run away.