Swedish media outlets have compiled statistics on shootings in Sweden this year as compared to previous years. The country is averaging a shooting per day. More alarming is the fact that immigrants-from Muslim-majority countries- are overwhelmingly represented. The article in Fria Tider was translated by me.
One
shooting a day in Sweden - 31 dead
Published September 11, 2017 at 16.20
DOMESTIC. On average, there is a shooting once a day in
Sweden. Just in the summer, which is the worst period eleven people have
died, figures by Svenska Dagbladet that SvD show. The
newspaper calls it a "bloody summer".
81 shootings with 46 injured and eleven
dead. That is the result of shooting only during the summer this year in
Sweden.
June, July and August account for 40 percent of
all shootings that occurred in 2017.
The total number of gang shootings between
January and August of this year amounts to 202, with 31 deaths. That is
"a shooting per day", according to SvD.
Worst is the metropolitan area of Stockholm
(79 shootings), South region with Malmö (61 shootings) and the region West
where Göteborg is included (21 shootings).
And it has become much worse over the years.
"Before 1990 there were about four gang
murders a year in the country, after the 1990s it was between 8-13 up to about
2014 and 2015, when it increased up to 30 murders a year across the country,
then it has been on it high level,"says Gunnar Appelgren at the Stockholm
Police to SvD.
Now the police are going to fight against gang
crime and, among other things, increase the number of surveillences. But
what the increase is due to, the police say that they “do not know".
In May, a survey by
Dagens Nyheter showed that immigrants are behind 9 of 10 shootings in
Sweden. Out of 100 people involved in murders and murder attempts where
firearms have been used, 90 of them have at least one foreign-born
parent. The vast majority of men, around 80 percent, have their roots in
the Middle East and Northern Africa. Most come from Iraq,
Iran, Lebanon,
Turkey, Somalia and Eritrea.
In late June, Expressen published a survey of
organized crime in Stockholm. Of 192 gang criminals, almost all, 94.5
percent, had at least one foreign-born parent. The country of origin that
stands out is Iraq, but many also come from Bosnia, Lebanon, Somalia, Syria and
Turkey.
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