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Thoughts? I think its a bit overreaction, I have been to Malmö many times and I have not experienced it as being any more dangerous than Copenhagen, just smaller and more boring (allthough alot larger and more fun than most other cities and towns in Sweden).
An overreaction may be, but a bomb exploded outside the residence of a local politician last night in Malmö. Apparently his door was blown in. Seems like left-wing terrorism on a Sweden Democrat. When you add up all these incidents, big or small, the picture of Malmö isn't very good.
An embarrassing overreaction. Over 200,000 people live in Malmo and I'm sure they do not fear for their lives. It doesn't appear any worse than Belfast, which recently had a man run into a store on fire, and people are going there more than ever.
Only been to Malmö for a couple of hours, because we had to catch a train there. I've only been to the area surrounding the train station and the centre. Seemed like a perfectly normal town to me
OP, this is the kind of thing parents feel compelled to do; if there's any remote chance their kids might be endangered by some freak incident, they opt on the side of caution. The situation reminds me of how some foreign tourists sometimes react when a riot breaks out in Los Angeles; some people become fear-stricken the the US as a whole (= almost half the North American continent) is unsafe, and they cancel their vacation travel plans for Miami and New York.
Or think of it this way; if there were a terrorist incident in a Moscow subway, or, heaven forbid, in a Moscow school, how likely would you be to send your kids (if you have any, just a theoretical example) to an exchange visit in Moscow 6 months later?
Of course it's too bad, but this is the way some people think.
extreme overreaction. malmö is - by a wide margin - the biggest dump in sweden however.
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