Gareth Brown
EuronewsWed, 11 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
© Johan Nilsson/TTPolice investigating after a shooting in Malmö on Saturday.
Swedish police have announced they are setting up a special task force to combat a wave of gang violence in cities across the country.
The country has seen a
dramatic surge in the use of grenades and machine guns in gang-related incidents in the last twelve months, shattering its image as one of the safest countries in the world.
On Sunday a fifteen boy was fatally shot in the city of Malmo and another injured.
Mats Löfving, head of national police operations, said: "It is very rare that we use these special methods. There has to be an exceptional situation."
Löfving added that the Malmo shooting was "the straw that broke the camel's back".
"We saw a weekend in Malmö that is unacceptable, with an execution-like murder of a 15-year-old boy," he added.
Police said last week that they had dealt with more than 180 bomb attacks this year alone.
Therese Cedergren, a correspondent with Swedish national broadcaster TV4, said that despite Sweden's image of tranquillity,
gang violence had plagued the south for many years.
Comment: RT adds that the task force will be implemented in cities across Sweden as gang members are becoming more ruthless and reckless:
Speaking to Ekot radio, police chief Anders Thornberg said gangs were becoming more ruthless and reckless, trying desperately to make and spend money quickly as they know they might not live more than 20 or 30 years.
Younger criminals are keen to make their way up the gang hierarchy faster by pulling off more dangerous and daring crimes in public, he said, including revenge attacks on rivals. The police chief also warned that dozens of children aged between 8 and 14 are suspected of involvement in robberies, and may already be prepared to engage in more violent crimes.
Thornberg said the task force's actions "will be moved around Sweden to the places where we think they are needed," including Stockholm and probably Uppsala.
Speaking of Uppsala, Thornberg said he had seen gang members brazenly gathering in the city center in the afternoon and "behaving inconsiderately" without showing respect for anything.
What the Swedish government refuses to acknowledge is the part played by their liberal immigration program, however a local news outlet has pointed out that that
90 percent of shooting perpetrators in Sweden are either
first or second generation immigrants. See:
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