Posted on 06/14/2019 7:33:38 PM PDT by bkopto
The bomb exploded shortly after 9 a.m. Friday in a blast that ripped through two apartment buildings and could be heard for miles. Twenty-five people suffered cuts and bruises and 250 apartments were damaged. A nearby kindergarten was evacuated. Hospitals jumped into disaster mode. Photos from the scene show rows of demolished balconies and shattered windows. It was ”absolutely incredible” that no one was severely injured, a police spokesperson said.
It is the kind of news we usually associate with war zones, but this bombing took place in Linköping, a peaceful university town in southern Sweden. Remarkably, it was not the only explosion in the country that day; another, seemingly unrelated, blast was reported in a parking lot in the city of Gothenburg earlier in the morning. Three explosions have been reported in Malmö since Tuesday morning. As of this writing, no arrests have been made.
Sweden has experienced a sharp rise in explosions in recent years, predominantly related to conflicts between warring criminal gangs. The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police. In response, the government issued a first-ever ”amnesty for explosives” in the fall of 2018, allowing people in possession of such weapons to hand them over to police with immunity. But this didn’t stem the tide: some 50 explosions were reported in the first three months of 2019 alone—an average of more than one every other day and an increase over the same period in 2018, a year that saw a record number of more than three blasts per week. (snip)
According to the prevailing ideology of the Swedish political establishment, this wave of violence, which is baffling to many European neighbours, should not be happening. A longstanding cornerstone of the country’s political conversation dictates that crime must be understood in socio-economic terms, and that welfare provisions are a cure-all against violence and social unrest. Yet Sweden is one of Europe’s most generous welfare states.
Ha haaaa!!! The bomb buyback program didn’t work! Oy, vey. Yo, Sven, try midnight soccer.
I have seen the future. Diversity is our strength.
What’s the problem? It looks a little bit more like Somalia right now. Isn’t it called cultural enrichment?
I worked in Norway in the seventies. I did not lock the door to my car. I did lock my house door but I really did not need to. I could walk down dark streets in the old city center in perfect safety in Stavanger.
This can not be done today. It is not due to Norwegian culture but Muslim invasion.
It’s the Islam, stupid.
I worked in Norway in the seventies. I did not lock the door to my car. I did lock my house door but I really did not need to. I could walk down dark streets in the old city center in perfect safety in Stavanger.
This can not be done today. It is not due to Norwegian culture but Muslim invasion.
Subhuman, murderous muslims(SPIT!() own Sweden. IIRC, it’s the, or near the rape capital of the EU, which is only years from becoming muslim(SPIT!) majority.
More immigration from war-torn shitholes is the answer!
“Sweden has experienced a sharp rise in explosions in recent years...”
That, strangely, is a pretty funny sounding sentence to read.
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was Swedish.
Seems oddly fitting it would be explosions that are occurring.
“It blew up, real good!” — John Candy, SCTV
This Kipling re-write is offered up as a sort of prayer....
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Swedes began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait.
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Swedes began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show.
When the Swedes began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud.
When the Swedes began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date.
That the Swedes began to hate.
It’s the Islam, stupid.
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No attribution? That’s been my tagline for years.
Yep, just some angry white males trying to corner the lutefisk trade. :)
Can anyone tell me how many people "in possession of such weapons" actually accepted this offer and handed them over to the police?
Any statistics whatsoever about the effectiveness of this measure - or on the origins / backgrounds of the people?
Regards,
We may never know why they want to blow everything up.
I guess these bomb blasts blow away the half-cocked Marxist concepts that socioeconomic problems can be solved by more social welfare.
Some Swedes are slow learners.
Hey, look folks. There goes Malmo. She blow’d up really well.
Imagine what the Norwegians and Danish would do in a fight to corner the King Oscar sardine trade.
Oh the tragedy of it all.
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