The Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby was thrust into the global spotlight after President Donald Trump leveled unsubstantiated claims that Sweden is roiled by rising crime and nonexistent terror attacks. Days after Trump made his claims, the suburb did in fact experience a riot, sparking media furor over whether Western countries were jeopardizing their own safety by taking immigrants and refugees from Middle East and North African countries. Since then, international media outlets, particularly far-right outlets like Breitbart, flocked to the place, looking for grist for Trumps claims and sometimes coming up short.
Coming up short apparently wasnt an option for one Russian TV crew, who decided to bypass deontology and just make up the news themselves.
They came up to us and said they wanted to see some action. They wanted to bribe us 400 [krona] each, Mohammed, a Rinkeby resident, told Danish radio station Radio24syv. (400 krona is about $45.)
But when Swedish police approached the camera crew and group of youngsters, the Russian journalists suddenly changed their tune. While we were talking to them, the police came over to us. We did not want to do any of that. But when the police came the Russian journalists said that we were the ones who had said that we would show them some action for 400 [krona] each, said the boy.
