After a sad record of deadly gun violence last year, Sweden is experiencing a new wave of violence. There have been repeated night shots and deliberate explosions in the capital Stockholm in recent days.
For the second night in a row, an apartment building in the Farsta district on the outskirts of Stockholm was fired on Friday morning without anyone being injured. A few hours earlier, an explosive charge had exploded in a stairwell in Årsta – also in the south of Stockholm. According to the newspaper Aftonbladet, the remains of a hand grenade have been found. No one was injured here either. There were no arrests.
Gang crime is on the rise
Sweden has been battling rampant gang crime for a number of years, which repeatedly manifests itself in shots and explosions. In 2022, there were 388 firearm incidents in the EU country. 61 people died.
Controversy over the drug market
In Stockholm, shots and explosions have noticeably increased since Christmas. The background to these acts is suspected, among other things, in a conflict over the drug market in the city of Sundsvall, which is almost 400 kilometers to the north.
According to broadcaster SVT and Aftonbladet, a 24-year-old with a criminal network is in charge there, but a notorious 36-year-old and his entourage want to challenge him for that position. Several of the acts allegedly target relatives of the two main actors in this conflict.
Source: Krone
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