Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class
- 6 years ago
Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class
Even President Trump weighed in on the issue, saying
that after taking in "large numbers" of immigrants, Sweden was "having problems like they never thought possible." Police officials are more likely to attribute gang violence to a failure of integration, citing a recent study of a Swedish street gang that found 24 percent of its members were ethnic Swedes, and 42 percent had been born in Sweden.
Last year, Peter Springare, 61, a veteran police officer in Orebro, published a furious Facebook post saying violent crimes he was investigating were committed by immigrants from "Iraq, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Somalia, Syria
again, Somalia, unknown country, unknown country, Sweden." It was shared more than 20,000 times; Mr. Springare has since been investigated twice by state prosecutors, once for inciting racial hatred, though neither resulted in charges.
An earlier jolt came with the death of Mr. Zuniga, who on Jan. 7 picked up the grenade, which the police
believe had been thrown by members of a local gang targeting a rival gang or police officers.
" he said. that I think we’re going to see, if we don’t stop it, more drive-by shootings with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades,
Gunnar Appelgren said that We have lost the trust from the people who lived and worked in this area,
Mr. Zuniga had complained about the changes in Varby Gard, frustrated that the police did not have better control, friends said.
Varby Gard has produced a street gang, the Varby Gard Network, which the police have been monitoring for two years.
Even President Trump weighed in on the issue, saying
that after taking in "large numbers" of immigrants, Sweden was "having problems like they never thought possible." Police officials are more likely to attribute gang violence to a failure of integration, citing a recent study of a Swedish street gang that found 24 percent of its members were ethnic Swedes, and 42 percent had been born in Sweden.
Last year, Peter Springare, 61, a veteran police officer in Orebro, published a furious Facebook post saying violent crimes he was investigating were committed by immigrants from "Iraq, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Somalia, Syria
again, Somalia, unknown country, unknown country, Sweden." It was shared more than 20,000 times; Mr. Springare has since been investigated twice by state prosecutors, once for inciting racial hatred, though neither resulted in charges.
An earlier jolt came with the death of Mr. Zuniga, who on Jan. 7 picked up the grenade, which the police
believe had been thrown by members of a local gang targeting a rival gang or police officers.
" he said. that I think we’re going to see, if we don’t stop it, more drive-by shootings with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades,
Gunnar Appelgren said that We have lost the trust from the people who lived and worked in this area,
Mr. Zuniga had complained about the changes in Varby Gard, frustrated that the police did not have better control, friends said.
Varby Gard has produced a street gang, the Varby Gard Network, which the police have been monitoring for two years.