Sweden: Will They Have to Send in the Military to Sweden's 2nd-Largest City?

Hat tip Nyheter Idag. Translation by Fousesquawk.

Henning Mankell

The late Henning Mankell was one of Sweden's most famous crime novelists. His most famous creation was Inspector Kurt Wallander, a  mythical murder detective in the southern Swedish city of Ystad. The novels have been made into several TV series both in Swedish and English. Being a student of Swedish, I have watched every episode of all the series. One of the episodes concerns the occupation of Ystad by the Swedish army in response to suspected Muslim terrorism in the city. Of course, being politically correct, the suspected Muslim terrorists turn out to be innocent, and the villain turns out to be one of the military commanders, a dangerous, right-wing nationalist who wanted to use the occupation for his own nefarious purposes. You know the type. Today, Henning Mankell would be turning over in his grave because all that may become reality in Gothenburg, and there is no Mankell surprise ending that turns reality on its head.

For the past couple of weeks, we have been reporting on gang violence in Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city. These, of course, are not Sweden gangs, rather immigrant gangs fighting each other for control of territory for their criminal enterprises. One of the gangs involved is a bunch called the  Hjällbo Network, named after a suburb of Gothenburg which is under their control. (They even operate roadblocks.) The leader of this pack is some old guy named Ali Khan, who washed up on Sweden's shores from Lebanon some years ago.

Now, a local politician wants to deploy the military. It is that bad. Imagine in Sweden they are now talking about sending in the military to the second-largest city in the country.

And everybody laughed at Trump when he spoke about the mess in Sweden.

The below article from Nyheter Idag is translated by Fousesquawk.

 https://nyheteridag.se/m-i-goteborg-satt-in-militar-mot-gangen/

M(oderate Party) in Gothenburg. Send in the military against the gang

Caption: Military exercise in Ystad 2015. Photo John Leffmann 

Gothenburg: After recent serious violence in the Gothenburg suburb of Hjällbo, Hampus Magnussen, municipal counselor (M) in Gothenburg, is proposing that the military should be deployed against gang criminals in a motion voted through by Moderates in Western Sweden. In the autumn, the proposal will be considered at the Moderates party meeting.

"We have a police authority that is under enormous pressure and in many ways is at a disadvantage. So we think that the military can support them in many tasks where they have relevant training, such as setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles," says Hampus Magnusson to Dagens Samhälle.

Presently, the Swedish military cannot be used on the grounds that "there is a risk that it could use force or violence against individuals," according to the provision on defense forces support to civilian activity, something the Moderates in Western Sweden want to change.

"It is my absolute judgment that there must be a change in legislation. What is happening today in Sweden where individual policemen's homes are being fired at, and there are explosions at police stations, is the domestic terrorism of our times," says Magnussen to Dagens Samhälle.

Magnusson's proposal is supported by the municipal board chairman in Gothenburg, Axel Josefson (M).

"This is a way that can help the absolutely acute police shortage we have in Sweden, where we want to go back to a system where you can use emergency police who can support the police in special incidents, and it will naturally be under police leadership," says Josefson to Expressen.