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On August 19, a 31-year-old man identified as a gang leader in Sweden’s third biggest city Malmo was gunned down in the Emporia shopping centre, several months after the death of his brother.<\/p>\n
A 15-year-old was arrested for the murder.<\/p>\n
A week later, a young woman and her son were wounded by stray bullets as they played in a park in Eskilstuna, a quiet town of 67,000 people west of Stockholm.<\/p>\n
The right-wing opposition, led by the conservative Moderates and the far-right Sweden Democrats who hope to wrest power from the Social Democrats, have vowed to restore ‘law and order’.<\/p>\n
Defending the left from allegations of laxism, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has promised a ‘national offensive’ against the scourge which poses ‘a threat to all of Sweden’.<\/p>\n
According to Andersson, the escalating crime numbers are due to the emergence of ‘parallel societies’ following ‘too much immigration and too little integration’.<\/p>\n
Jacob Fraiman, an ex-gangster who now helps other criminals leave that life behind, says even he is shocked by the level of violence.<\/p>\n
‘I’m from another generation, obviously we had weapons too. But it wasn’t often you had to shoot someone’, he tells AFP in Sodertalje, an industrial town south of Stockholm with a large immigrant population.<\/p>\n
‘You used to shoot someone in the legs. Now, they’re told to shoot in the head’, he says.<\/p>\n
At the police station in Rinkeby, one of Stockholm’s disadvantaged suburbs, 26-year-old patrol cop Michael Cojocaru says he and his colleagues regularly encounter brutal violence reminiscent of war and seize assault weapons, grenades and explosives.<\/p>\n
‘You’ll see wounds, people who’ve been shot with AK47s, who’ve been stabbed, people who have war wounds’, he tells AFP.<\/p>\n
‘It’s like a totally different society … another type of Sweden’.<\/p>\n
Experts attribute the escalating violence to a series of factors, including segregation, integration and economic difficulties for immigrants, and a large black market for weapons.<\/p>\n
The recruitment of young teens into criminal gangs – who aren’t tried as adults if they get caught – is also a major concern.<\/p>\n
Seven years later, Maritha Ogilvie is still trying to understand why her son was killed. ‘He was just a normal kid’.<\/p>\n
‘I don’t know what happened with our society. I don’t know how they lost control over certain areas, but they did’, she sighs. ‘And it keeps on getting worse’.<\/p>\n
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