{"id":198200,"date":"2019-11-21T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T08:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198200"},"modified":"2019-11-25T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T07:25:44","slug":"swedens-pm-wont-blame-immigrants-for-surge-in-immigrant-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198200","title":{"rendered":"Sweden\u2019s PM won\u2019t blame immigrants for surge\u2026 in immigrant crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT \u2013 Nov 20, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Burnt out police car in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, 2016. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

With gang crime soaring in Sweden, the country\u2019s Prime Minister still refuses to blame immigration for the problem. The statistics prove him wrong, but in Sweden, social justice is more important than actual justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

The country that gave the world ABBA and IKEA is now famed for a more sinister export: crime. Amid a wave of bombings and shootings, Denmark last week closed its border with Sweden, reintroducing passport controls and police checks for the first time since the 1950s. The tightening of security is necessary \u201cto counter the threat from serious, cross-border crime,\u201d<\/em>said<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Denmark\u2019s minister of justice, Nick Haekkerup.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thirteen explosions and a double murder on Danish soil prompted the lockdown, but in Sweden, the problem is worse. There were 162 bombings in Sweden last year, and 120<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in the first seven months of 2019 alone. The right have blamed immigrant-led gangs for the crime wave, but Sweden\u2019s Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, isn\u2019t having any of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deny, deny, deny<\/h2>\n

While Lofven admitted that the threat of gang violence is real and rising, he told Swedish TV network SVT on Sunday that the sources of the problem are \u201csegregation,\u201d<\/em> poverty and unemployment.<\/span><\/p>\n

The segregation is because there is…too high unemployment in these areas. But that would have been the same regardless of who had lived there. If you put people born in Sweden under the same conditions, you get the same result\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the economic gaps, the social injustices would have been the same.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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More people are killed by firearms in Sweden now than Mexico. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Blaming \u2018segregation\u2019 in one breath, then telling Swedes that the problem would still exist without immigration in the next, requires a delusional level of doublethink and a willful ignorance of the facts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sweden\u2019s unemployment rate peaked at 8.6 percent in 2010, in the aftermath of the great recession. Sven and Nils didn\u2019t start offing each other though, and the country saw 17 people killed by firearms the following year. By 2018, the unemployment rate had fallen to 6.3 percent, yet 43 people were shot dead. That number looks set to rise again this year, with 23 fatal shootings reported in the first six months of 2019, and more since.<\/span><\/p>\n

All in all, murder and manslaughter more than doubled<\/strong><\/span><\/a> between 2008 and 2018, according to government statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Loath as Lofven was to admit it, the link between migrants and crime is not just the stuff of right-wing fantasy. A 2017 investigation by newspaper Dagens Nyheter found that migrants were behind 90 percent<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of shootings in Sweden. The majority of shooting perpetrators, the report found, were men of Middle Eastern or North African origin<\/span><\/p>\n

Grenade attacks too seem to be an imported phenomenon. Sweden saw a handful at most explosive devices detonated every year until 2016, when 39 hand grenades were used<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>in attacks. Of course, 2015 was the year that Sweden welcomed<\/a> in more than 160,000 migrants and asylum seekers, more per capita than any other European country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unemployment and immigration linked<\/h2>\n

But correlation does not equal causation. The fact that grenade attacks increased nearly fortyfold at the same time that Sweden was flooded with new arrivals could just be a coincidence. However, if the true cause is indeed unemployment, as Lofven suggests, then the problem is again linked with immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon as many shootings in Sweden as in Mexico<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n