Antisemitic hate crime reports in Sweden’s third-largest city of Malmo have almost tripled in recent years with no convictions, official figures indicate.
The city of about 300,000, whose longtime mayor resigned in February after making comments many interpreted as antisemitic, recorded 60 hate crimes against Jews in 2012, up from an average of 22 in 2010 and 2011, the Malmo daily Sydsvenskan reported.
Police reported 35 such hate crimes so far in 2013, putting the city on a pace to break last year’s record. Still, no one has yet been convicted in any of the cases, bringing denunciations from Malmo’s Jewish community.
