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Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence

posted by janrinok on Monday February 26 2018, @07:34PM   
from the big-guns dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-violence/swedish-pm-does-not-rule-out-use-of-army-to-end-gang-violence-idUSKBN1F629L

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.

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• paradox paradox (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @04:03AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @04:03AM (#644963)

  > Who are the racists now?

  You get fines and sometimes jail time for criticizing islam in Sweden. Therefore the English language news does not cover the real problems and the English language blogs that do are unsavory. They do nearly always link upstream to reputable Swedish sites. Hire a translator if that bothers you. Otherwise ,here's one of the earlier higher profile cases:

  http://www.womenagainstshariah.com/2014//swedish-politician-fined-for-hate.html [womenagainstshariah.com]

  Here's one of the low profile cases:

  https://70news.wordpress.com/2017/05/14/woman-70-charged-with-hate-crime-for-facebook-post-migrants-defecate-in-streets-and-set-cars-on-fire/ [wordpress.com]

  And here are two "gangs" that were eventually let free:

  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/02/08/alleged-gang-rape-facebook-shocks-sweden/97633012/ [usatoday.com]

  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/10/sweden-muslim-migrants-gang-rape-wheelchair-bound-woman [jihadwatch.org]

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• Re:paradox (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:48AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:48AM (#645064)

  You get fines and sometimes jail time for criticizing islam in Sweden.

  Well, I should hope so! Go back to your own country, you "preventing the rights of religions to discriminate" American, you! Your Rambo Jesus is an abomination, and God will fuck you up the ass, I swear. I will pray for you, and for the fucking up the ass part.

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