The situation is “uncontrollable” and she risks “get worse before you get better”. Since his appointment as head of the Swedish government on 16th October, the conservative leader Ulf Kristersson has multiplied these kinds of declarations, warning that it will be necessary “two or three terms” before seeing the results of the anti-crime policy that his majority in Parliament, made up of the conservative liberal right and the far right, has promised to put in place.
In the meantime, Monday, January 23, on the set of the SVT channel, the Prime Minister confided to being “quite pessimistic in the short term”, after another deadly weekend in Stockholm. It started on Friday at 1:30 p.m. A first shooting broke out in the southern district of Farsta, then a second, at 6 p.m., in the Fruänge district. None made a victim. This will not be the case for the next one, at 9:59 p.m., in the northern suburbs of Solna. A man is killed. Meanwhile, police chased a car, driven by a 29-year-old man, where two 15-year-old teenagers were. They find weapons there. Then, at 10:31 p.m., a device exploded in a stairwell, south of Stockholm. At 1:45 a.m. on Saturday morning, a shooting broke out in front of a villa in the southern district of Tumba. Then another, at 3:20 p.m., in the residential suburb of Gamla Enskede.
In total, noted the Prime Minister, on January 26, “sixteen shootings and eleven explosions have taken place since Christmas, in Stockholm alone”. Four days later, on January 30, a 15-year-old boy was shot dead in a sushi bar in Skogas, about twenty kilometers south of Stockholm. Suspected of having lured him into an ambush, a 17-year-old boy was placed in pre-trial detention.
This wave of violence challenges by its intensity, but also by the fact that it is now hitting the capital. Two hundred police officers were sent there as reinforcements from across the country. According to investigators, the latest incidents could be linked to the murder of a 27-year-old man on December 25 in the Rinkeby district. Shot dead, the victim was one of the main suspects in the murder of young rapper Einar (real name Nils Grönberg), shot dead in Stockholm on October 21, 2021. But police and criminologists point out that these clashes between rival gangs have no motives. always very clear.
Some suspects are under 13
One thing is certain: violence reached a new record in 2022, with 61 people killed by bullets (compared to 45 in 2021). In a column published by the daily Svenska Dagbladet, on January 10, the Minister of Justice, Gunnar Strömmer, evokes a “domestic terrorism”. The criminals, he denounces, “want to instill fear, they are willing to force public bodies to take or refrain [de prendre] various measures and decisions, they are indifferent to the fact that innocent people are affected and they engage in activities dangerous to society”.
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