When Swedes get publicly angry about “refugee” housing, you know that the migrant crisis has gotten out of control.

The following video shows excerpts from a municipal council meeting in Spånga-Tensta, a northwestern suburb of Stockholm. Much of the area around Spånga is already culturally enriched, but the borough authorities are planning to enrich it even further by putting in housing for several thousand asylum-seekers — right next to a primary school.

By now most Swedes have become aware of what large concentrations of migrants tend to do, especially to women and little girls, so the locals who showed up en masse at the public portion of the council meeting were already hot under the collar. There was no more tugging of the forelock and “permission to speak, sir” this time — it was: “We demand answers! NOW!”

Highly unusual behavior for Swedes. The situation must be grave indeed.

Pay special attention to the chairman of the council, who is a member of the Green Party and a culture-enricher himself.

Many thanks to Tania G. for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Jan Sjunnesson is a dissident Swedish journalist who was present at the meeting and assisted with the translation. In the interview below he explains the context for what happened that night. As he points out, the vast majority of the angry citizens who packed the room had voted for the parties that advocated bringing more immigrants into Sweden, and not for the Sweden Democrats, the only party that opposed mass immigration.

Many thanks to Victor Laszlo for conducting the interview, and to Vlad Tepes for editing and uploading this video:

Transcript of the council meeting (times from the original video):

00:31 I want to speak! Of course, but Jorn has the microphone.

00:35 No, I have the microphone.

01:01 Can we get the show on the road? I don’t have much time.

01:06 We who live in the area… Listen up, can I speak now?

01:10 (unintelligible)

01:14 For many of us living here in this area who have come here tonight it is all about feeling safe.

01:19 This way of placing (asylum) housing close to a school for our children and grand-children…

01:26 we have seen how many problems there have been with knifings, rapes, harassment.

01:35 To gather so many in one place, close to a school —

01:40 how will you be able to guarantee our safety and our children’s?

01:45 We quite simply feel run over.

01:50 It feels like you have already decided that you are going to cram in as many as possible here,

01:56 which will create a feeling of them and us. It is going to create hatred.

02:02 I do not understand why there has to be such a large (asylum) housing project.

02:07 Why can’t you have them living a few here and there, spread them out a bit…

02:12 then one might feel that they were somebody that one might

02:16 want to have as a guest at home, and might be able to talk with them…

02:19 If there are to be so many, they will walk our streets in gangs and we are alone.

02:32 This is going to create hate. A large resistance will emerge against this.

02:39 I don’t understand why the politicians don’t go out and

02:47 talk to people and ask those who live in the area what they think. It’s a really big question.

02:54 How are you going to ensure our safety? Thank you. And I want to remind you

02:57 that we only have a very short time…

03:05 (Very dissatisfied audience) Order! We’ll take the next question.

03:21 So, Hello, hello!

03:25 Give an answer to the question!

03:29 We demand of you here today that you have to give us answers to our questions!

03:40 It’s like this: we in Sweden live in a democracy,

03:45 and we who live here have the right to say that this is not OK!

03:50 We will fight to the last drop of blood to keep this project from being realized.

04:00 It so happens that I have good information about the crime statistics

04:04 from this municipal board of Spånga-Tensta, and this is not good.

04:08 We have already problems on (names specific streets) other places in Spånga.

04:14 I do not think that it is suitable and I think it is irresponsible

04:19 that you just watch while a situation is being created

04:24 where you put our children’s lives and our own lives at risk,

04:28 with people around who are not doing well and who are not in the right environment.

04:32 And then I ask: what is the reason you will put it in this specific place?

04:36 How have you analysed this? Why does it have to be near a school, for example?

04:40 Where is your analysis for this decision? That was my first question.

04:44 Thank you, and thank you so much for your questions.

04:47 (Chairman Awan Hersi (Green Party) thanks the questioner and tries to move on… )

04:50 Answer! Answer the questions!

04:53 (Unintelligible obfuscation)

04:58 Answer NOW! ANSWER! Well, we’ll wait a bit…

05:02 Why can’t you answer, we are asking questions you are just (unintelligible)

05:09 Exactly!

05:16 But but… the politicians are taking care of you…

05:21 We… listen! (people in the back demanding they answer the questions).

05:27 This is the way it is. We live in a democracy in Sweden…

05:32 and we feel bad about this situation and we actually DEMAND…

05:37 listen to me now… listen… this is important.

05:42 We demand that this be treated in a concrete and a good way for us citizens.

05:48 Don’t talk s***! Answer our questions concretely when we ask them,

05:52 and don’t start talking about all kinds of other things! I want to know. Firstly:

05:55 What analysis have you done that makes you

05:58 decide to built this housing in this specific spot? Answer that question NOW!

06:03 Hellooo, is there anybody there?

06:07 The chairman does not answer the questions but refers to upper regional and national administrative levels…

06:12 I am asking the question to you as chairman and you need to answer.

06:17 I am the chairman for the City Council, and the City Council

06:25 has the responsibility for school, elder care, (unintelligible), leisure (etc.)…

06:37 and it is not the City Council who has made this decision.

06:43 We have had absolutely nothing to do with this question…

06:52 But listen, excuse me… hellooo down there…

06:58 You can’t just all sit there when we come here today looking for answers…

07:04 and say that you can’t answer! That is not OK!

07:10 There has to be some f***ing order in a democracy! You can’t just duck!

07:20 If you would just calm down, if you yell it will not go well…

07:25 But you are not answering our questions, we will stop shouting when you answer!

07:28 Now we should calm down a bit… We are having an information meeting about this.

07:33 Are we going to do it properly? Because now it feels quite (unintelligible)…

07:37 Now I will try to answer as best I can, but I suspect that there will be lots more questions.

07:42 (Unintelligible)

07:46 If it is safety and analysis then it looks like this.

07:53 We will be having meetings like this all across town.

07:59 The choosing of a place is done like this, there are extremely stringent requirements

08:04 for the building of residences in greater Stockholm.

08:08 We have maybe 60 places around town where it is possible to build houses.

08:28 We have a special situation and we have to find solutions.

09:41 That we have perhaps 4000 housing complexes, and we have never in 50 years —

09:49 and I can tell you that we have not had even one incident where a neighbour has been attacked,

09:54 raped, knifed has never happened under SOE’s (?) 50 years.

11:18 Can we answer some more questions?

11:39 You mentioned that these temporary houses were for the citizens of Stockholm.

11:50 You have this unclear definition of “newly arrived”.

11:54 To me, these people are not Stockholm citizens.

11:58 My question is, which I think everybody should think about answering…

12:01 Will Swedes be allowed to live in these houses?

12:05 And if not, these houses that will be built — is it so that Swedes will be discriminated against?

12:12 Because there are lots of youngsters here in Spånga who have problems finding housing.

12:18 What do you politicians plan to do about these problems?

12:28 It’s like this, we have an extreme situation, yes.

12:34 Sweden is one of those few countries that are in a very extreme situation,

12:38 and that situation we have created ourselves.

12:42 Or rather the politicians have. You are going to have to take responsibility for the housing situation,

12:46 and not try to solve it for the whole worlds’ population.

12:50 You have responsibility to find solutions for the people who live here.

15:52 We already have problems with houses for addicts. How can you be so stupid

15:56 as to put a housing project more or less only ten meters from the school?

16:00 There is a football field by the school and there are problems there already.

16:05 The school is already jammed with pupils and they can hardly eat because the canteen is full.

16:11 What are they thinking?? Should we extend the schools with barracks also?

16:17 I don’t understand. Gärdet at the inner city, it’s huge! What’s wrong with building 10,000 houses there?

16:27 Why do you have to put it here? Does anybody have an answer to that?

16:31 You don’t have to answer because you just got a paper shoved in your hand,

16:34 and you are just happy to build more, and you are talking about

16:37 Stockholm Social Housing Foundation not having had any problems with houses for addicts and other residents.

16:41 But how much experience do you have regarding housing for refugees, and so many of them?

16:46 One has only to read the news. Perhaps you have not had a problem …

16:50 but you know very well that there is a big problem.

16:53 Because IF there was no problem then you would have never said that…

16:56 “Oh, we will increase surveillance and increase security and we will guard you.”

17:01 But why, if there is no problem?! That was the first thing you said!

20:25 I think that it is time to calm down now

20:31 and to ask proper questions and also to listen to the answers that are given.

20:36 Wait! HEY! It is actually me who has floor…

20:41 wait your turn, that’s how it works in a democracy, if you can’t respect that…

20:46 then you have no place here. We need order.

20:59 It is obvious that both we and you are suffering from a communications breakdown,

21:04 and we will have to do something about it. (Angry man shouts unintelligibly)

21:12 You should be happy that it is not me who is leading this meeting…

21:16 because had it been, then I would have left the room, because this is not working.

25:48 You over there who’s racist, calm down!