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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.
“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.
