My wording probably wassn't the best there tbf.Explosion at a Metro station in Stockholm.
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My wording probably wassn't the best there tbf.Grenades? What?
Wait...what? They actually have an issue with grenades?
When did I say that we have no social problems or anything about a right-wing construct? I was clearly wrong about your statement but that doesn't mean that you have to insinuate all that crap about me.
Teens roam streets with rifles as crime swamps Sweden
The army may be called in to halt a gang surge in immigrant areas
The blast was so powerful that it shook windows a mile away. Ahmad’s first thought was that someone had thrown yet another bomb at the police.
He was right. On Wednesday night an explosive device was hurled at the police station in Rosengard, a troubled area of Malmo, Sweden’s third largest city.
Attacks on the police are increasingly frequent. Rosengard’s force works from a black fortress of reinforced concrete with narrow windows and a 10ft-high electric fence.
“I knew it was a bomb again,” said Ahmad, 53, who lives in the area with his wife and their four teenage children.
Sweden is among the world’s safest, richest and best-run countries enjoying steady growth and rising employment. But it has been experiencing an unprecedented surge of gang shootings, bombings and sexual assaults.
In a country of 10m people, more than 320 shootings and dozens of bombings were reported in 2017, along with more than 110 murders and 7,226 rapes — a 10% increase on 2016. More than 36% of young Swedish women say they feel unsafe at night.
The authorities have admitted they are unable to investigate rape cases immediately because the resources are focused on gang crime. “We are forced to choose between two evils,” the police said.
The crime surge is mainly confined to so-called “areas of social exclusion”, a code for neighbourhoods such as Rosengard that are predominantly populated by immigrants. They are not classic ghettos — the infrastructure and services are better than in areas of central London — but these communities are plagued by high crime rates and unemployment.
In Malmo, where a fifth of the 340,000 inhabitants are under 18, children as young as 14 roam the streets with Kalashnikov assault rifles and bulletproof vests. The average age of gang members is 22, the vast majority of them hailing from migrant families.
Rest:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...-with-rifles-as-crime-swamps-sweden-q83g055k9
The army may be called in to halt a gang surge in immigrant areas
The blast was so powerful that it shook windows a mile away. Ahmad’s first thought was that someone had thrown yet another bomb at the police.
He was right. On Wednesday night an explosive device was hurled at the police station in Rosengard, a troubled area of Malmo, Sweden’s third largest city.
Attacks on the police are increasingly frequent. Rosengard’s force works from a black fortress of reinforced concrete with narrow windows and a 10ft-high electric fence.
“I knew it was a bomb again,” said Ahmad, 53, who lives in the area with his wife and their four teenage children.
Sweden is among the world’s safest, richest and best-run countries enjoying steady growth and rising employment. But it has been experiencing an unprecedented surge of gang shootings, bombings and sexual assaults.
In a country of 10m people, more than 320 shootings and dozens of bombings were reported in 2017, along with more than 110 murders and 7,226 rapes — a 10% increase on 2016. More than 36% of young Swedish women say they feel unsafe at night.
The authorities have admitted they are unable to investigate rape cases immediately because the resources are focused on gang crime. “We are forced to choose between two evils,” the police said.
The crime surge is mainly confined to so-called “areas of social exclusion”, a code for neighbourhoods such as Rosengard that are predominantly populated by immigrants. They are not classic ghettos — the infrastructure and services are better than in areas of central London — but these communities are plagued by high crime rates and unemployment.
In Malmo, where a fifth of the 340,000 inhabitants are under 18, children as young as 14 roam the streets with Kalashnikov assault rifles and bulletproof vests. The average age of gang members is 22, the vast majority of them hailing from migrant families.
Rest:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...-with-rifles-as-crime-swamps-sweden-q83g055k9
Interesting read, but any swedes willing to chip in? There have been load of articles over the years about the supposed war zones in Sweden and how terrible it it because of the immigration, but these are often built on flimsy sources and are often downright fabrications.
I for example live in Oslo, and i've seen plenty of claims for right wing types on how terrible and unsafe it is because of all the spooky brown people that apparently roam the streets in search of their next prey, which is just false
It's bad for Swedish standards and predicted to be one of the most important issues this election year. Up until maybe two years ago they were constantly saying Sweden was safer than ever and it is only now that the government have started to admit that it's not felt or real for everyone. The police are indeed swamped. If your house have had a break in and you call the police they're likely to tell you to file a report and feck off and maybe they will visit your house next week.
And what is the narrative in the media about this?
I don't think there is a consistent narrative. Depends where you get your news from. But they seem to agree that it is a problem that has been ignored for a long time.
Not the best thread title to bump can I just add @Mrs Smoker. I live in Stockholm and am currently in Aus on holiday so gave me a right scare.
Anyone from Sweden want to comment on the truth of this?
Sorry, didn't really think about that. Felt the article might be on topic here so that's why I posted it.
There was also a grenade that came through an apartment window again in Gothenburg yesterday.