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Sweden calls up the army to help deal with gang violence
Hotair ^ | 09/30/2023 | John Sexton

Posted on 09/30/2023 4:55:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The gang situation in Sweden has been bad for a while but this summer it has gotten significant worse. The gangs are mostly made up of foreigners and earlier this month the country was shocked when a 13-year-old boy was found murdered in a forest area. Two fourteen-year-olds were murdered near Stockholm earlier in the summer. But the situation keeps getting worse with 12 people dead from gang violence this month alone. Remember, Sweden has roughly the same population as the state of Georgia and historically has had a very low murder rate.

Last year, more than 60 people died in shootings in Sweden – the highest on record – and this year is set to be the same or worse.

An official government report published in 2021 stated that four in every million inhabitants were dying in shootings each year in Sweden – compared with 1.6 people per million across Europe.

Police have linked the violence to poor integration of immigrants, a widening gap between rich and poor and drug use.

The most recent shock came when a young woman named Soha Saad, who had just graduated from university and was about to become a middle school teacher, was killed in an explosion apparently aimed at gang members living in her building.

It was early Thursday morning that a powerful explosion took place in the residential area Fullerö Hage in Storvreta, north of Uppsala.

The crime is believed to be aimed at relatives of Rawa “Kurdish Fox” Majid. Soha Saad lives with her family in one of the relatives’ neighboring houses.

Soha Saad was taken to hospital, but her life could not be saved. Two men have been arrested, suspected of murder and aggravated public danger.

That appears to have been the last straw. Last night, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson made a televised speech to the nation and announced he was calling in the army to help deal with the crisis.

He said:

“Tomorrow I will meet the national police chief and the commander in chief to see how the defense force can help the police in their work against the criminal gangs,” Kristersson said in an address to the nation on Thursday…

“I can’t emphasize enough how serious the situation is. Sweden has never seen anything like it, no other country in Europe is experiencing anything like this,” the Swedish prime minister said.

“We will hunt the gangs, and we will defeat the gangs. We will take them to court. If they’re Swedish citizens they will be locked up for a long time in prison and if they are foreign citizens, they will also be expelled.”

Kristersson specifically mentioned the death of Soha Saad saying, “This is a difficult time for Sweden. A 25-year-old woman went to bed last night on a completely ordinary evening but never got to wake up.”

The violence and bombings in Sweden have had a major impact on the country’s politics. Last year, voters made the right-wing Sweden Democrats the 2nd biggest party in parliament and effectively made Kristersson, leader of a center-right party, the Prime Minister.

Kristersson formed a center-right minority government after last year’s election with support of the populist and anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats, ending eight years of Social Democrat-led governments in Sweden.

His coalition won the election partly on a promise to stem growing gang violence, and it has launched a series of initiatives, such as greater powers to police and harsher punishment for gun crimes.

The measures have yet to take effect, but Kristersson blamed former governments for the problems.

“It is an irresponsible immigration policy and a failed integration that has brought us here,” Kristersson said.

Sweden had liberal immigration policies for many decades and took in more immigrants per capita than any other European nation during the 2015 migration crisis. Those policies were reversed by the former Social Democrat-led government, but have been tightened by Kristersson’s government. About 20% of Sweden’s 10.5 million inhabitants were born abroad.

It’s worth noting that the connection between immigration and the current violence is not a right-wing fever dream. In fact, the figures are quite clear, though the former government and their media allies did their best to rule the question out of bounds.

Among shooting suspects, 85 percent are first- or second-generation immigrants, according to the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, as immigrant neighborhoods have become hotbeds for gang crime. National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg has described the violence as “an entirely different kind of brutality than we’ve seen before” and his deputy, Mats Löfving, says that 40 criminal clans now operate throughout the country. Spreading fear are “humiliation robberies,” targeting children and youth, in which victims are subjected to degrading treatment by assailants, such as being urinated upon. Just this week, four men were sentenced for robbing, beating and urinating on an 18-year-old, who was also filmed by his tormentors…

When stories started appearing about gang-rule and attacks on people going into immigrant neighborhoods, sometimes referred to as “no-go zones,” a government agency started a PR campaign to rename them “go-go zones.” The government had help from left-leaning Swedish media. In 2015, the editorial page of Dagens Nyheter, for instance, said that people expressing alarm about crime were “safety-deniers,” and compared them to climate deniers. The Social Democratic publication Aftonbladet said in 2017 that the idea that Sweden needed to recruit more police officers was “populism at its worst,” given that “crime is declining”.

Meanwhile, the link between immigration and crime was turned into a taboo topic.

Aftonbladet, for instance, argued that there was no need for authorities to publish statistics on immigrants and crime because the very idea was inherently racist. Then-Prime Minister Stefan Löfven reiterated the same notion when he was asked whether immigration had affected crime levels. “We should act against what is wrong and criminal no matter the background and the cause. I don’t want to link crime to ethnicity,” he said in 2020––as if there were no legitimate questions about how his government’s immigration policy had affected crime.

The effort to hide the evidence that this was an immigrant wave failed and the government which tried to ignore the problem is now gone. Police officials estimate there are about 30,000 gang members nationwide who are contributing to the shootings and bombings. Here’s a bit of PM Kristersson’s speech.

Click above article link for the video



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: army; crime; europe; gangs; gangviolence; sweden
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1 posted on 09/30/2023 4:55:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Strange that the Swede couldn’t hear the voices of those who told them, where their idea that everybody could be made a liberal, would go.


2 posted on 09/30/2023 5:02:03 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The only thing that will stop violence is more violence. I just don’t see the Swedes doing that. Also, imagine how the inevitable videos of Swedish violence will be used by the world’s despotic regimes to justify their violence. This mess would never have started if Sweden had protected their borders and limited emigres to people who at least had a western orientation. When asked why they had raped Swedish women the boys answered, “Because we won.” They are referring to the forever war between Muslims and everyone else. Did the Swedes think that wasn’t real? Did they think that once the Muslims got to Sweden, they’d become Swedish? If they did, they’d be murdered by their family.


3 posted on 09/30/2023 5:02:35 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: SeekAndFind

Sweden is a great place if you’re a hippie.


4 posted on 09/30/2023 5:07:23 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: SeekAndFind
“We will hunt the gangs, and we will defeat the gangs. We will take them to court...."

You lose.

5 posted on 09/30/2023 5:14:20 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I looked and looked and looked for the word, but can’t find it. The author does a masterful job tiptoeing around the real cause. Sometimes he and the people he quotes get right up to the edge, but just can’t say it. For example, “Sweden has never seen anything like it.” He’s talking about the violence, not the huge numbers of sand rats they imported. Just expel the sand rats.


6 posted on 09/30/2023 5:14:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: BlackbirdSST

“You lose” — perfect summation.

They need rat killer to wipe out their infestation of sand rats.


7 posted on 09/30/2023 5:15:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: SeekAndFind

Enoch was Rigth!

(Enoch Powell)
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8 posted on 09/30/2023 5:20:46 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: CodeToad

Keep voting liberals into offie and keep allowing foreign cultures into the Country and live with it.


9 posted on 09/30/2023 5:22:05 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Gen.Blather
Normal people with normal thought processes would have paused immigration when the immigrant problem spun out of control in Malmö twenty, maybe thirty years ago. But liberals NEVER objectively look at Cause and Effect. Ever. They deny reality and live in fantasy worlds where things are perfect, facts be damned.

You can find thousands of these “Refugees Welcome” signs on the Net, often held by the very targets that will be raped.


10 posted on 09/30/2023 5:25:48 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
The Swedes need to all read a true translation of the Holy Quran.

It is how Patton defeated Rommel, he read his book.

Muslims don't go anywhere to "integrate", they go to fight Jihad one way or another, and win.

11 posted on 09/30/2023 5:28:49 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: SeekAndFind

The Muslims are willing to use violence to conquer and control.

The Swedes have only two long term options:

Submit, or

Use so much violence in retaliation that the Muslims leave.

There is no other option.


12 posted on 09/30/2023 5:34:03 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Sweden appears to be a large San Francisco.


13 posted on 09/30/2023 5:36:57 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Mogger

The Swedes and all good liberals would deny what the Quran says and commands believers to do. “It’s just a few passages and you are misinterpreting them” is a common rebuttal. Liberals will deny reality until the scimitars are lopping off their heads. Even then, other liberals will say “We need to understand the roots of their rage.”


14 posted on 09/30/2023 5:37:50 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sweden is experiencing the subtle beauty of islam.


15 posted on 09/30/2023 5:50:39 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Absent lethal force, their army won’t solve anything.

Same here.


16 posted on 09/30/2023 5:55:47 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: SeekAndFind

So unnecessary and so predictable. The sensible Swedes lost their mind and now they’ll never be the same.


17 posted on 09/30/2023 6:04:12 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: SeekAndFind

Remove all non whites, problem solved.


18 posted on 09/30/2023 6:08:55 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: SeekAndFind

Sweden had practically a monoculture until the recent invasions. It has been invaded by diverse hoards and now they have this. That pretty much sums up the problem.


19 posted on 09/30/2023 6:09:17 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: BlackbirdSST

That last sentence…


20 posted on 09/30/2023 6:09:37 AM PDT by EEGator
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