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This story points out how dangerous Sweden is becoming with growing gun crime due to increasing drug gang violence…,
With 62 people shot dead last year, up from 45 in 2021, Sweden’s overall homicide rate is about one-sixth of the U.S.’s. But in a European context, it is extraordinary. Stockholm’s gun-murder rate was roughly 30 times higher per capita than London’s.
Perpetrators are becoming younger, and are also resorting to increasingly violent tactics such as throwing hand grenades and placing bombs, injuring a growing number of bystanders, including children.
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Today, an estimated 75% to 80% of deadly shootings remain unsolved, and the low risk of getting caught has prompted a growing number of youths to kill for bounties issued by gang leaders, said Salihu, the crime expert.
In March this year, police said Majid’s men went to the home of Serdar Sarihan after his son Adem became involved in a rival gang, his identity revealed on the television crime show. Sarihan was shot in his doorway, once in the stomach and once in the back.
Adem’s grandfather, Ömer, a civil engineer who came to Sweden from Turkey in 1979, worked for years as a taxi driver before joining Serdar’s real-estate company in Alby. He thinks his son was killed to intimidate Adem and his gang.
www.wsj.com
With 62 people shot dead last year, up from 45 in 2021, Sweden’s overall homicide rate is about one-sixth of the U.S.’s. But in a European context, it is extraordinary. Stockholm’s gun-murder rate was roughly 30 times higher per capita than London’s.
Perpetrators are becoming younger, and are also resorting to increasingly violent tactics such as throwing hand grenades and placing bombs, injuring a growing number of bystanders, including children.
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Today, an estimated 75% to 80% of deadly shootings remain unsolved, and the low risk of getting caught has prompted a growing number of youths to kill for bounties issued by gang leaders, said Salihu, the crime expert.
In March this year, police said Majid’s men went to the home of Serdar Sarihan after his son Adem became involved in a rival gang, his identity revealed on the television crime show. Sarihan was shot in his doorway, once in the stomach and once in the back.
Adem’s grandfather, Ömer, a civil engineer who came to Sweden from Turkey in 1979, worked for years as a taxi driver before joining Serdar’s real-estate company in Alby. He thinks his son was killed to intimidate Adem and his gang.
How Peaceful Sweden Became Europe’s Gun-Murder Capital
The rise of the Scandinavian equivalent of Pablo Escobar has tracked growing violence in Sweden. That has sparked an anti-immigration backlash.
www.wsj.com
