Last week a Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin was accused of the attempted hijacking of a London-bound flight, which he tried to board at an airport near Stockholm with a loaded gun in his hand luggage.

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Gulan Avci, a Swedish MP of Kurdish origin who represents the Stockholm suburb of Bredang, said the rioting was down to a mixture of criminality and disillusioned young people in areas of high unemployment and poor school results.

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