Supporters of US President Donald Trump say riots in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby, Sweden, justify Trump's Muslim ban.

US President Donald Trump provoked widespread consternation by seeming to imply, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden.

Now riots have broken out in a predominantly immigrant neighbourhood in the northern suburbs of Sweden's capital, Stockholm.

The neighbourhood, Rinkeby, has seen riots in 2010 and 2013, too.

About a dozen cars were set on fire in Stockholm as riots erupted in the suburb of Rinkeby following a suggestion made by Donald Trump that Sweden is suffering from migrant-linked terror.

And in most ways, what happened late on Monday night was reminiscent of those earlier bouts of anger.

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Swedish police apparently made an arrest about 8pm on Monday (Tuesday NZT) near the Rinkeby metro station.

Police in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby fired warning shots after a group of unidentified people threw stones at them.

For reasons not yet undisclosed by the police, word of the arrest prompted a crowd of youths to gather.

Over four hours, the crowd burned about half a dozen cars, vandalised several shopfronts, and threw rocks at police.

Police spokesman Lars Bystrom confirmed to Sweden's Dagens Nyheter newspaper that an officer had fired shots with intention to hit a rioter, but did not strike his target.

REUTERS Firefighters watch on as several cars smoulder after being set on fire.

A photographer for the newspaper was attacked by more than a dozen men and his camera was stolen, but no one was ultimately hurt or even arrested.

Bystrom added, "This kind of situation doesn't happen that often but it is always regrettable when they happen."

In 2015, when the influx of refugees and migrants to Europe from Africa, the Middle East and Asia was highest, Sweden took in the greatest number per capita.

KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS Donald Trump's comments that immigrants were responsible for a supposed wave of crime in Sweden were widely mocked.

By and large, integration has been a success story there, save for incidents like Monday night's, which have taken place in highly segregated neighbourhoods.

The newspaper Dagens Nyheter analysed crime statistics between October 2015 and January 2016 and came to the conclusion that refugees were responsible for only 1 per cent of all incidents.

That has done little to assuage the perceptions, even among Swedes, that foreigners are culpable for the crime that does happen.

REUTERS A policeman investigates a burnt car in the Rinkeby suburb of Stockholm

A Pew Research Center study conducted in early 2016 indicated that 46 percent of Swedes believed that "refugees in our country are more to blame for crime than other groups."

Trump clarified on Twitter that he drew his claim of immigrant violence in Sweden - made at a campaign speech in Melbourne, Florida - from a Fox News segment in which two Swedish police officers were interviewed.

The segment was part of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" and featured filmmaker Ami Horowitz, who was introduced as someone who had documented an "incredible surge of refugee violence" in Sweden.

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The two Swedish police officers whose interview provided the basis for the report spoke out on Monday and claimed their testimony had been taken out of context.

One of them, Anders Goranzon, said the interview had been about areas with high crime rates, and "there wasn't any focus on migration or immigration."

"We don't stand behind it. It shocked us. He has edited the answers," said Goranzon.

"We were answering completely different questions in the interview. This is bad journalism."

Horowitz defended his work to the Guardian, saying that he was "pretty sure" he told the officers what the segment was going to be about, and implying that the officer's statement came under pressure from his superiors.

Multiple criminologists in Sweden contacted over the weekend said that the notion that immigrants were responsible for a large proportion of crime there was highly exaggerated.

None was comfortable referring to neighbourhoods like Rinkeby as "no-go zones."

Nevertheless, the integration of immigrants into Swedish society is a problem that the government has been struggling to address.

"Sweden definitely, like other countries, [faces] challenges when it comes to integration of immigrants into Swedish society, with lower levels of employment, tendencies of exclusion and also crime-related problems," said Henrik Selin, director of intercultural dialogue at the Swedish Institute.