Posted on 11/04/2019 7:10:21 PM PST by karpov
Sweden’s national bomb squad has been called out to 30 blasts in the past two months and 100 so far this year, more than twice the number in the same period in 2018, as concern grows about rising levels of violence by criminal gangs.
Police arrested three people over the weekend following an explosion in an apartment block in the southern city of Malmö early on Friday that blew out the building’s main door, shattered windows and substantially damaged the entrance level.
The blast was the first of three in the space of 24 hours, local media reported, with others destroying cars and damaging property in Växjö, 127 miles (204km) north-east of Malmö, and Landvetter outside Gothenburg on the country’s west coast.
“There are 10 million people in Sweden and I have not found the equivalent of this level of explosions in any industrialised country,” Ylva Ehrlin, an analyst with the bomb squad, told the public broadcaster SVT.
The number of recent explosions was “unacceptably high” and “obviously undesirable”, she told the news agency TT. “It’s very serious, a social problem. We not only must find the explosives and tools, but uncover the cause.”
Most of the blasts have occurred in big cities, authorities said. Almost a third have taken place in Malmö, scene of a string of increasingly violent gun and bomb attacks that rightwing politicians have linked to the large flows of immigrants who arrived in in Sweden during the 2015 migration crisis.
Nineteen bombs have also exploded in the capital, Stockholm, so far this year, and another 13 in Gothenburg, compared with 39 nationwide in 2018. The squad have also defused 76 suspected bombs that were spotted before they could be detonated.
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Well, are the "rightwing politicians" correct? I bet they are.
Old Bjorn sure likes him some bombs.
Are the cops arresting bombers, or are they arresting people who complain about the bombers?
Haven’t these people heard? This stuff isn’t happening in Sweden. When President Trump mentioned this it was reported as being false, and that his words “came as news to the people in Sweden.”
We'll get the Keystone Cops right on it.
The Swedes should just outlaw bombs. (Why do I always have to think of everything?)
White supremacists?
>>When President Trump mentioned this it was reported as being false, and that his words “came as news to the people in Sweden.”
There was no crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square, either. On this Google and China agree.
I think banning muslims more effective
“” “” The number of recent explosions was “unacceptably high” and “obviously undesirable”,”” “”
ROLFMAO! Is there a desirable rate of bombings?
anybody know who is bombing who?
Malvo.
more liberal facilitated cultural enrichment.
What could be causing this? Elizabeth Warren says if you import more immigrants, then you can offer free health care to everyone. I wonder if importing more immigrants would also stop the bombings? Are the bombs are caused by a lack of diversity?
“Diversity is our strength” is the lie repeated so often that it is unquestioned.
The heritage, self-hating Swedes are completely screwed.
They gave up on Christianity. This is what they get in return.
I had no idea they had Amish gangs in Sweden too.
Huh! Imagine that! Wait! Isn’t that where the Amish come from?
Does the FBI handle Sweden?
Greta is disturbed by this, no?
LOL. I'm sure they have their own version, every bit as competent as ours. The will need both hands and flashlight.
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