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The Swedish army is stepping in to support police in tackling a recent
surge in gang killings, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has announced.
He said that from next week the army would start providing assistance with
analysis and logistics, as well as in handling explosives and forensic
work.
Mr Kristersson added that Sweden's laws also needed updating to enable
more military involvement.
So far this month, 12 people have been killed in gang violence in the
country.
This is the highest number since December 2019, according to the Dagens
Nyheter newspaper.
On Wednesday night alone, two young men were shot dead in Stockholm, and a
woman - who police say had no links to gang crime - was killed in blast at
home some 80km (50 miles) north of the capital.
The 24-year-old woman, named as Soha Saad by local media, was a newly
qualified teacher and thought to be a neighbour of the target of the
explosion.
HARDtalk with Foreign Minister Tobias Billström: Controversy in Sweden
Mr Kristersson made the announcement after crisis talks on Friday with
Sweden's army chief Micael Byden, police chief Anders Thornberg and
Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer.
He said the government would ask the army to help the police "in cases
where the armed forces' specialist skills can help".
"This could be many things: help with explosives and helicopter logistics,
analysis skills... IT forensic analysis."
The prime minister added that the country's current legislation had to
change to address "grey-zone situations where it's not obvious what kind
of threat Sweden is facing".
Swedish media have connected the recent surge in deaths to a conflict
involving a gang known as the Foxtrot network, which has been rocked by
infighting and split into two rival factions.
On Thursday, Mr Kristersson said Sweden had not seen anything like it
before and that "no other country in Europe" was experiencing this kind of
situation.
Children and innocent bystanders, he stressed, were increasingly being
caught up in such violence.
Last year, more than 60 people died in shootings in Sweden - the highest
on record - and this year is set to be the same or worse.
An official government report published in 2021 stated that four in every
million inhabitants were dying in shootings each year in Sweden - compared
with 1.6 people per million across Europe.
Police have linked the violence to poor integration of immigrants, a
widening gap between rich and poor and drug use.
Mr Kristersson's centre-right minority government, which came to power
last year with the support of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, has
not yet been able to stem the violence.
He has vowed to push ahead with more surveillance, harsher penalties for
breaking gun laws, stronger deportation powers and stop and search zones -
insisting that "everything is on the table".
Some critics have argued these measures fail to address underlying social
issues including child poverty and underfunded community services.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66964723
> Immigration kills. Native citizens. Ban niggers.
The Swedish army is stepping in to support police in tackling a recent
surge in gang killings, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has announced.
He said that from next week the army would start providing assistance with
analysis and logistics, as well as in handling explosives and forensic
work.
Mr Kristersson added that Sweden's laws also needed updating to enable
more military involvement.
So far this month, 12 people have been killed in gang violence in the
country.
This is the highest number since December 2019, according to the Dagens
Nyheter newspaper.
On Wednesday night alone, two young men were shot dead in Stockholm, and a
woman - who police say had no links to gang crime - was killed in blast at
home some 80km (50 miles) north of the capital.
The 24-year-old woman, named as Soha Saad by local media, was a newly
qualified teacher and thought to be a neighbour of the target of the
explosion.
HARDtalk with Foreign Minister Tobias Billström: Controversy in Sweden
Mr Kristersson made the announcement after crisis talks on Friday with
Sweden's army chief Micael Byden, police chief Anders Thornberg and
Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer.
He said the government would ask the army to help the police "in cases
where the armed forces' specialist skills can help".
"This could be many things: help with explosives and helicopter logistics,
analysis skills... IT forensic analysis."
The prime minister added that the country's current legislation had to
change to address "grey-zone situations where it's not obvious what kind
of threat Sweden is facing".
Swedish media have connected the recent surge in deaths to a conflict
involving a gang known as the Foxtrot network, which has been rocked by
infighting and split into two rival factions.
On Thursday, Mr Kristersson said Sweden had not seen anything like it
before and that "no other country in Europe" was experiencing this kind of
situation.
Children and innocent bystanders, he stressed, were increasingly being
caught up in such violence.
Last year, more than 60 people died in shootings in Sweden - the highest
on record - and this year is set to be the same or worse.
An official government report published in 2021 stated that four in every
million inhabitants were dying in shootings each year in Sweden - compared
with 1.6 people per million across Europe.
Police have linked the violence to poor integration of immigrants, a
widening gap between rich and poor and drug use.
Mr Kristersson's centre-right minority government, which came to power
last year with the support of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, has
not yet been able to stem the violence.
He has vowed to push ahead with more surveillance, harsher penalties for
breaking gun laws, stronger deportation powers and stop and search zones -
insisting that "everything is on the table".
Some critics have argued these measures fail to address underlying social
issues including child poverty and underfunded community services.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66964723
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