Two sisters, “political” refugees from Iraq, beat another woman during a party and sexually assaulted her with a blunt object. One of the sisters had previously been convicted of money laundering and theft.
For the first time in Swedish history, 2 women are being prosecuted for gang rape.
The 2 Iraqi-Swedish sisters beat up another woman during a party and penetrated her with a blunt object.
One of the sisters has previously been sentenced for money laundering and theft. pic.twitter.com/MtIpXEhF24
— Visegrad 24 (@visegrad24) September 5, 2024
Sweden hit by murder wave, police call in army
The Swedish army will help the police in the fight against armed crime, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said. The measures were announced by the Swedish prime minister amid a sharp increase in attacks involving firearms and explosive devices. “I cannot help but acknowledge how serious the situation is. Sweden has never seen anything like this before. No other country in Europe is experiencing anything like this at the moment,” Prime Minister Kristersson said.
Kristersson leads a centre-right government that lacks a majority in parliament. He came to power last year with the support of the anti-immigrant Sweden Democratic Party, but has failed to curb crime, one of the country's biggest problems and a particular source of anger among voters.
The Prime Minister explained that the government will ask the army to help the police “in cases where special skills of the armed forces may be useful” (military operations?).
An official government report published in 2021 found that four out of every million people in Sweden are killed in shootings each year, compared with an average of 1.6 people per million in Europe.
Police link the violence to poor integration of immigrants, the widening gap between rich and poor, and drug use.
Around one in six young people in Stockholm belongs to a gang, according to a sociological study
Young people who were involved in gangs were more likely to have committed property crimes, violent crimes and drug dealing. The Swedish capital also had “clearly more” young people who had close friends who belonged to gangs (16%) than Helsinki (9%) or Turku, Finland (8%). The only Scandinavian city in the study that did not stand out from Stockholm’s “crime-heavy” background was another Swedish city, Gävle (12%).
“So, gangs of young people are present in all the cities in Northern Europe that were studied. However, Stockholm is in a special position,” – states Markus Kaakinenemployee of the Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy, University of Helsinki.
The study groups included more than 9,000 young people aged 13–17 from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
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