Ifølge en fersk svensk rapport falt det ingen dom i Malmö i 2010 eller 2011 i Malmö tross 485 anmeldelser av hatkriminalitet. 16 av sakene ga grunnlag for tiltale, ingen av disse handlet om overgrep mot jøder.
I fjor ble det detonert eksplosiver ved det jødiske senteret i den sydsvenske byen som blåste inn entreen. Politiet har ikke hatt mistenkte på blokka.
Det bor om lag 700 jøder i Malmö blant titusener av muslimer. Jødiske ledere sier at det skjer noen dusin antisemittiske angrep i byen årlig.
Som kjent er byens ordfører ikke særlig vennlig innstilt overfor jøder, og han benekter at jødene har det vanskelig i byen.
According to members of the community, most anti-Semitic attacks are perpetrated by Muslims, though Malmö Mayor Ilmar Reepalu has denied this.
He advised Jews who want to be safe in Malmo to reject Zionism, which he listed along with anti-Semitism as an unacceptable phenomenon. Reepalu has also said the Jewish community had been “infiltrated” by anti-Muslim agents.
Hannah Rosenthal, the United States former special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, last year accused Reepalu of not doing enough to fight anti-Semitism.
According to Sydsvenskan, a total of 4,590 hate crimes were reported to the police in the whole of Sweden in 2012.
Hate crimes are not a punishable category in the Swedish penal code but are considered an aggravating circumstance that can lead to tougher sentencing