Sweden: Protection Extortion Within Immigrant Communities

Hat tip Gates of Vienna, Vlad Tepes, and RAIR  Foundation. Translation by Fousesquawk.

Along with all the other problems Sweden is facing due to the invasion of migrants, refugees, and assorted asylum-seekers from Muslim-majority countries, there is a big problem faced by the honest, hard-working immigrants who operate legitimate businesses in Sweden. Ethnic criminal gangs prey on business owners of their own national or ethnic group by extorting them with "protection" blackmail.

In the below three videos by Swedish State TV, two Swedish police officers describe the problem and how it operates.

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Policeman in tears after question on Gangs' hidden victims: "Completely without a chance"

Updated June 26, 2021, Posted June  26, 2021 

Swedish entrepreneurs have lost their families, their work, or have been forced to move out of the country in fear of being killed SVT's review shows.

The reason: They are systematically extorted by criminal networks. Now Gothenburg police officer Ulf 

Boström sounds the alarm that the problem is gigantic and that the police cannot protect the victims.

"Either you pay or you resist, and your life is completely ruined," he says.

Start the clip to see the emotional interview with police officer Ulf Boström-who explains who is affected, and the powerlessness he feels in the face of the problem.

Integration policeman Ulf Boström has worked in northeast Gothenburg for 16 years. His telephone rings all the time. Worried mothers of gang members, imams, and people who don't understand a (document)  they receive from an official.

Boström: Therefore, the police cannot protect victims

He meets many of the people who live under constant threat of death, those who pay the gangs and family-based criminal networks, and those who refuse. He believes that police cannot protect those who report, even if they receive protected living.

"It is only temporary and few who get protection in this way have a full life. Since for so long we have let this activity spread over all of Sweden, the gangs are in all the bigger cities. They have eyes and ears everywhere.

SVT News-West for several years has met with about 10 people around Sweden who refuse to pay. The victims are primarily people with a  foreign background. The criminals see that they are easier to approach, according to Boström.

"If you don't have a big family that can protect you, you are completely without a chance," he says.

Tries to make politicians understand

He has long fought to make others understand that organized crime is so much more than attention-getting shootings. Ulf  Boström is engaged in the local Democrat party, and in 2019, made news when he reported 300 Swedish ISIS (members) for aiding and abetting murder.