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Rinkeby ([²rɪŋkɛˌbyː]) is a district in the Rinkeby-Kista borough, Stockholm, Sweden. Rinkeby had 15,051 inhabitants in 2007.
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- no go zone return to rinkeby
- Map of Rinkeby Stockholm Sweden
- Demographics
- Social unrest
- Twinnings
- References
Map of Rinkeby, Stockholm, Sweden
Rinkeby is noted for its high concentration of immigrants and people with immigrant ancestry. 89.1% of the population of Rinkeby had a first- or second-generation immigrant background as of 2007. In 2002, there was a murder in rinkeby that gained national headlines.
A sociolect called Rinkeby Swedish has been named after Rinkeby.
The district was a part of the Rinkeby borough until 1 January 2007, when it was merged with Kista borough to form the Rinkeby-Kista borough. The neighbourhood was part of the Million Programme.
The Stockholm metro station Rinkeby was opened in 1975.
Demographics
Rinkeby is inhabited by a diverse array of immigrants. As of 2011, most were from Iraq (3,155), Iran (2,909), Somalia (2,878), Turkey (1,819), Finland (1,090), Eritrea (1,026), Ethiopia (914), Greece (768), Poland (757), Chile (711), Syria (631), China (589), Bosnia-Herzegovina (468), Pakistan (456), India (414), Bangladesh (414), Morocco (344), Yugoslavia (328), and Lebanon (289).
Social unrest
In June 2010 and again in 2014 the police station was attacked by rioting local youth; in 2014 it was shut down.
In 2016, an Australian news team from 60 Minutes along with Jan Sjunnesson, an editor of the Swedish publication Avpixlat, had their camera man hit by a car when the team arrived at Rinkeby. After making journalistic contact with inhabitants, "the team gets surrounded by young, ill-tempered men. The police is present but disappear for unclear reasons immediately prior to the attack" that followed, which included hits and kicks. In May of the same year, an interview team of the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK along with Swedish police and economist Tino Sanandaji were attacked.
Riots have broken out among immigrant youth in Rinkeby in 2010, 2013, and 2017. In 2017 fires were started by rioters, and at least seven cars were burned. Rioters threw rocks at police, who responded with warning shots, and later with "shots for effect" intended to hit their target.
In 2017 the construction of a new more robust police station in the area was delayed due to construction companies being unwilling to tender for the contract over security concerns over attacks on equipment or threats towards employees.