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Sweden in the control of gangs, what is happening in the Scandinavian country/ The government imposes emergency laws
2024-08-01 19:14:06 / BOTA
Sweden has a problem with criminal gangs, a relatively new problem for the normally quiet Nordic country, which has instead had to deal with rising and increasingly violent crime in the past ten years.
Last July 22, a man threw a hand grenade into a shop on the outskirts of Geneta, in the city of Södertälje, injuring several bystanders. The next day, not far away, a man was shot. And these are just the latest episodes in a blood trail that has led Ulf Kristersson's government to introduce emergency legislation.
The popular politician, who governs with a coalition that also includes the extreme right, promised to end the phenomenon and all his chances of re-election are based on keeping this promise. Crime statistics are relentless in a country of 10.5 million whose international image is that of a peaceful and successful nation with a competitive economy and strong social protection. This year there have been 148 shootings in Sweden with 20 dead and 26 injured.
In 2023, there were a total of 53 gun deaths. Last year there were 62 murders.
Tragically, in 2023, Swedish criminal gangs began increasingly targeting relatives and loved ones of their rivals and also using minors in their gang wars, resulting in an increase in the number of women and youth killed.
In 2023, ten more women and nine more people under the age of 18 died in violent attacks than in 2022, bringing the number of female victims to 33 and the number of minor victims to 17.
Ten of the 33 women killed were in a relationship with their killer.
As the violence becomes more widespread, increasing numbers of bystanders are killed and injured by gunfire and bomb attacks. Last year there were 139 bomb attacks in Sweden, six more than the previous record year of 2019, with the record bombings in Stockholm in which there were 45 explosions.
To combat this situation, the army was also sent to the streets and so-called security zones were introduced.
A new law that came into effect in April allows police to designate as a safe zone any area where violence is believed to be imminent, giving police the power to stop and search any citizen within that perimeter, which they normally cannot do without. suspected that that citizen has committed a crime.
Sweden's first safe zone was established in the central city of Norrköping after a double murder by gangs in June. The second was placed in Geneta in the city of Södertälje, following an execution-style killing in the stairwell of an apartment in early July. The site remained active for two weeks from July 6 in an area near a row of small shops and had a visible police presence, or signs indicating the presence of surveillance drones.
The mayor of Södertälje, Boel Godner, spoke of the anxiety that has gripped the city. "It's a serious situation," Godner said. "People are shocked and outraged that their city is being associated with these criminals," Godner said, arguing that no amount of political action would be enough to stamp out the gangs, which have grown in power in cities like hers for years. in turn.
Godner called for greater national and international interagency coordination to target gang leaders and their assets, including not only the police but also the Inland Revenue, Customs and the Financial Crimes Agency.
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