| People don't seem to like responding to facts. I laid out a lot of primary source citations here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976762 For myself, my favourite restaurant was bombed and a month later four people were shot outside my door (literally on my doorstep, three died): https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/sa-borjade-den-blodi... Here's some more sources: BBC, November 2023, "Spread of gang violence wrecks Sweden's peaceful image". Over 60 gun deaths in 2022 (the record), 140+ explosions in 2023, violence spreading out of the low-income vulnerable areas into quiet suburbs, gang leaders directing from Turkey and Serbia. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67342368 AP (via Euronews), September 2023 — three killed overnight in shootings and a bombing during the Foxtrot gang feud; the rival factions led by a Swedish-Turkish dual national operating from Turkey. https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/28/3-killed-in-shootings-an... Al Jazeera, September 2023 — Kristersson calling in the military; police estimate of roughly 30,000 people involved with or tied to gang crime; violence spreading from major urban areas to smaller towns.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/29/swedish-pm-seeks-he... NBC News, September 2023 — same events, plus the framing that the coalition won the 2022 election partly on the promise to stem gang violence. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sweden-leader-summons-arm... Reuters, January 2020 — the bombing statistics: 257 bomb attacks reported in 2019, up 60% year on year, concentrated around the ~60 deprived areas police had identified.
https://news.yahoo.com/sweden-suffers-surge-bomb-attacks-131... Euronews, September 2023 — Kristersson: "No other country in Europe is seeing anything like this."
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This kind of statement isn't allowed here.