Posted on 12/05/2023 8:19:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Gangland shootings and bombings that have plagued Sweden's biggest cities have spread to quieter suburbs and towns, shattering its reputation as a safe and peaceful nation.
Half an hour north of central Stockholm, Upplands-Bro features lakeside boat clubs, copper-red wooden villas and apartments flanked by pine and spruce trees.
But a 14-year-old boy was found dead in a forest here in August, and since January there have been several shootings and bombings targeting houses and apartments.
"It's awful. We've [been] woken up by explosions in the neighbourhood and it's scary," says 42-year-old Anna Petterson, who lives in Bro and has three children. "It's very much something that we're aware of, and we talk about a lot, and are afraid of."
Sweden has been a European hotspot for gang-related shootings and bombings for several years. But recently the violence has shifted beyond low-income, vulnerable urban areas and police say one reason is that gang members are increasingly targeting rivals' relatives.
Detectives suspect some of the latest violence has been organised by criminal leaders based in other countries, including Turkey and Serbia.
More than 50 people have been killed in shootings so far in 2023, and there have been more than 140 explosions. Last year, more than 60 people died in gun violence, the highest number on record.
"What started out as gun violence between young gangs looking to defend their territory has turned into a vicious circle of firearms trafficking and gun violence," explains Nils Duquet, a firearms researcher based at the Flemish Peace Institute in Brussels.
"Gangs have also matured and are no longer just the street criminals, but are often connected to higher-level criminals as well."
Innocent bystanders are also among the dead.
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.... research for the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention in 2021 showed young people born in Sweden to two parents from abroad were overrepresented as suspects in murder cases and robberies.
The right-wing coalition government, elected in September 2022, believes the rise in gang violence in recent years is directly connected to Sweden's earlier immigration policies. Until 2016, it had one of the most generous asylum laws in Europe.
"We can now see that 'outsideship' and lack of integration, in combination with trade of narcotics and organised crime is creating this very, very toxic mixture," Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told the BBC in September.
Sweden is the new Lebanon.
Darn those white supremacists!
Why haven’t we outlawed liberalism for its crimes against humanity yet?
Eliminate Mooslimb crime and Sweden is as peaceful as
... Sweden.
Islam is a religion of hate. It demonstrated , yet again , just how intense that hatred gets on Oct 7th in Israel. A country would be better off importing nuclear waste because at least nuclear waste decays over time. Islamic Immigration should be focused at getting rid of them! (Unfortunately, for the rest of the World , Islamic dogma demands it spread to places without its curse)
This is from an article by Edward Cline in Family Security Matters
MUSLIM AGGRESSION AS FUNCTION OF MUSLIM PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION
Below two percent Muslims are well-behaved citizens and cause little apparent trouble for the host society.
At two percent and three percent Muslims begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.
From five percent on Muslims exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They push for the introduction of halal (“clean” by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves—along with threats for failure to comply (United States, Switzerland, Sweden). At this point, Muslims work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, or Islamic law. (England, Netherlands, Philippines).
When Muslims reach 10 percent of the population, they increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris—car burning). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats (Amsterdam, Denmark—Mohammed cartoons, murder of Theo van Gogh).
After reaching 20 percent of a population expect hair-trigger rioting, Jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning (Indonesia, Ethiopia).
After 40 percent you find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare (Bosnia, Chad).
From 60 percent you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and jizya, the tax placed on [conquered] infidels (Sudan, Albania).
After 80 percent, expect to find state-run ethnic cleansing and genocide (Syria, Egypt, UAE).
Wait until the miggie boyz start organizing their gangs here in America. Gonna be a lot of dead American laying in the streets.
***Mostly peaceful Gangland shootings, bombings, and gang rapes.
I’ll bet they’re super glad they embraced diversity, huh?
These people need to escape the EU and NATO, so they can deal with their problems directly and not have globalist BS forced down their throats.
I guess I’d have a laugh about all this if my brother wasn’t currently living in Stockholm.
“I’ll bet they’re super glad they embraced diversity, huh?”
Remember when those Eurotwits used to sneer at us for our crime problems? I guess in a weird way they were jealous, so they imported some criminals for themselves.
Couldn’t see that one coming, could we?
>> Gangland shootings and bombings
“Gangland” my ass.
Mosque-land is more like it.
We need another Crusade stat!
But they are so strong with so much diversity.
So Sven, Bjoern, Olaf and co. decided to return to their roots and go a Viking did they?
Or might something else be at work here?
Its amazing. They had it made with no violent underclass that hated the country, its culture and its people. They were happy and homogenous. But that wouldn’t do. So they imported the most violent and hateful people they could....people who had nothing in common with the country, did not speak the language, hated the culture and who refuse to integrate preferring rape, looting and murder while living on the government dole.
The Europeans’ capacity for self destruction is truly limitless.
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