The Jewish center for human rights warned jews from traveling to Malmö during the 2010 shootings.
http://nrk.no/nyheter/verden/1.7430622
They have a suspect for the 2010 shootings in custody though, and I don't think that the victims are immigrants this time around.
Quite. Shows them up as pretty damn clueless about what was going on. Of course if you were Jewish and looked Mid-Eastern you might have ended up in this nutter's firing line. But not for being Jewish in any way.
But Malmö and Skåne are interesting.
It is a fact that the proportion of immigrants in Malmö is rather large. That's where they live. Malmö really is Sweden's gateway to the continent, and one of the things it has tended to get is spill-over effects from larger Copenhagen across the strait, which has a reputation as one of the larger transit ports for international drug smuggling, with attendand voilent crime, guns etc.
Industrial city Malmö is then surrounded by ridiculously rich farmlands still dotted by large manors owned by traditional aristocrats (no one in Sweden can be as condescending as one of these Skåne barons). It is also ringed by affluent, pretty much immigrant free, upper middle-class communities. Malmö itself has been working class and inveterately socialist in its political leaning since the 19th c. The upland around Malmö otoh was in the 1930's and 40's the heartland of Nazism in Sweden. Some of it apparently never quite washed out. It's been a favourite stomping ground for right wing extremism since. Currently it's the region most strongly supporting the xenophobic Swedish Democrats.
So, social divides, political geography, ethnicity, politics in Skåne and Malmö come together in such a way as to make the province one of the more exciting parts of Sweden. Which bit out of that heady mix you want to pick up on as a particular problem seems to depend a fair bit on what you would like to find...
