That Sunday’s shooting death was committed in Södertälje is no accident. News agency TT writes that seven people have been shot and killed in Södertälje so far this year. The city, which has around 76,000 inhabitants, is “hit by a spiral of violence”, and according to the police, the murders are linked to clashes between different gangs.
A more correct term would be clans, but that word is not mentioned in TT’s news update. It’s not so surprising, because even the mayor of the medium-sized city has previously come out and declared that she “doesn’t want to discriminate between people”. To Sveriges Radio she said in 2020 that “I refuse to talk about clans and clans”.
Södertälje’s municipal mayor, Boel Godner (S), does not share the police’s view that several acts of violence can be linked to criminal family networks.
– I don’t distinguish between people and people, she says in Sweden’s Radio Ekot’s Saturday interview.
Family-based crime has been widely discussed since Deputy Police Chief Mats Löfving stated that there are approximately 40 criminal families, families and clans in Sweden.
According to experts, Södertälje is one of the affected areas.
But Boel Godner, municipal mayor of Södertälje, is of a different opinion.
– I do not want to describe a family-based crime. There is serious organized crime in Södertälje, and there are all kinds of people, she says in Ekot’s Saturday interview.
“All kinds of people” is hardly an apt term, because the shooting murders in Sweden are mainly committed by men with origins in MENA countries, and also in Södertälje, which is one of Sweden’s most self-segregated, dangerous areas.
Accused organized murder
When the number of people killed in gunfights is now up to 60 for the year at the beginning of December, it is against the background of a frightening development, as Christoffer Bohman, police chief in the Södermanland region and specialist in gang crime, pointed out to Swedish DN earlier this year.
While our neighboring country is ravaged by so much gross violence that we barely cover a fraction of the cases, something has happened at the same time that Scandinavians have stopped raising their eyebrows when reading about the violence, but silently scroll past notices of murder, degrading violence and rape.
One thing is the increase in the number of shooting incidents, which must be said to be predictable after mass immigration, but what Bohman registers and points out is if possible more worrying with regard to the future in our neighboring country.
Just 20 years ago, a shot in the leg was a strong mark, today you shoot to kill, and there are young people who have been brought up in this mentality, writes the newspaper after a conversation with the police chief.
In practice, it is thus a question of a change in mentality in the gangs, where in the past you would take revenge or distinguish yourself by harming someone in a rival gang, whereas today there is no such “grace”. Revenge actions today are characterized by a will to kill, and Bohman refers to the development as an “extreme shift”.
Religious radicalization
Police chief Bohman draws a parallel between the extreme development of a murderous mentality in the gangs and religious radicalisation. He points out that the process is the same. His remark that “young people are brought up in this mentality” must be understood as an expression that the immigrant religion, Islam, is important for the violent change in the gangs’ behaviour.
A similar development can be seen in Norway, although Norwegian figures do not come close to Swedish numbers, but there is also an overrepresentation of immigrants who are gang members and engage in deadly violence in this country.
Development in Sweden is going as it has to go. If you import clan culture, you get the effect of clan culture. The shootings are reprisals against the one or those who bring the gang to shame, following the same model as the clans’ culture of honor, and they will increase in strength and scope in accordance with an increase in the proportion of immigrants with this background in any local environment.
The head of Sweden’s National Police tells the news agency TT that there is a particularly serious situation in Sweden when it comes to organized crime. The police’s resources are stretched to the limit, he points out.
The head of Sweden’s National Police, Anders Thornberg, said last week that there is a particularly serious situation in Sweden when it comes to organized crime.
He said at the same time that the police’s resources have been stretched to the limit.
He says that the police have no expectations of a better situation in the new year.
– These are incredibly high figures when we talk about the number of people killed, said Thornberg.
According to the police chief, the police’s positions have moved forward so that it can intervene more quickly when it receives information via encrypted apps.
He warns that the young people have no self-control and that the reckless violence the police see is very disturbing.
“Disturbing” is the first letter. 60 dead corresponds to two entire upper secondary school classes. That says something about how vulnerable the welfare state is in the face of a culture of violence. For the first time, there is more than one shooting death a week in the neighboring country. It causes no uproar, it is barely mentioned in the country’s newspapers.
