Sweden will do whatever it takes, including sending in the army, to end a wave of violence that has seen a string of deadly shootings, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in Wednesday.
Sweden's murder rate is relatively low in international terms, but gang violence has surged in recent years and Swedes are worried that the police are unable to cope.
In 2016, the latest year for which official statistics are available, 106 people were murdered in Sweden, a country of 10 million.
But Swedish TV reported there were over 300 shootings, mostly in turf battles between gangs over drugs, protection rackets and prostitution.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:15AM
We should appoint you to a government position, where you will have the authority to decide what is news, and what is not news. And, you should have the authority to make that decision for all public forums, including Soylent. That way, we won't be distracted by news stories of women raped and killed in the streets of European cities, or babies tossed into the air and caught on bayonets, or mass graves - oh, wait - that was Nanking. That kind of thing couldn't happen today, could it?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/626925/ISIS-Islamic-State-Flag-Migrants-Europe-Norway-Severed-Heads-Schengen-EU-Jihadi/amp [express.co.uk]