“I had a case involving a 15-year-old girl recruited to shoot someone in the head,” Stockholm prosecutor Ida Arnell told AFP. “She was able to choose the type of mission she wanted, in other words, to aim at the guy’s door or his head. She chose the head.”
This article is fucking crazy, what the hell is wrong with Sweden now?
Earlier in April, two people were killed in a suspected gang fight in Gothenburg, while a renowned rapper was shot dead in a gang battle in the city in December.
Since when are there Swede rappers? That is weird enough in itself.
I get that drugs are largely the issue, but these people live in a country with a laundry list of social welfare programs that most people could only dream of. Free healthcare, free education at all levels, and a boatload of economic support initiatives for people in poverty. They literally are living life on easy mode compared to the rest of the poor people in the world for the most part. Why do they turn to drugs in the first place? It clearly shouldnt be out of hopelessness for their situation…
Also, by this quote it makes it seem that the lead subject of the article didnt even do anything ruthless herself at all:
She was arrested with a 17-year-old male accomplice, who pulled the trigger, leaving the victim clinging to life after being shot in the neck, stomach and legs.
So she “chose to shoot the guy in the head” as in she chose to have some dude shoot the guy in the head.
This whole situation is ridiculous. It seems like there is some underlying culture glorifying the violence that occurs in countries where people dont have any of what the Swedes have available to them. None of them need to deal drugs to survive, or commit acts of violence. None of them even need to be using drugs out of hopelessness for their future. Its like the equivalent of suburban American kids with college funds wanting to be gangbangers because they think its cool. Fucking stupid
Unless something drastic has happened in just 2025 that isn’t reflected in the data yet, the actual murder rate in Sweden hasn’t really changed much in the past 30 years. It’s high by Nordic standards, middle of the road for European standards, and low by global standards. Sweden is still just a normal country with normal human problems, even if it is very prosperous and has a lot of sensible government policies
That there are Swedish rappers definitely isn’t that weird either. I don’t even enjoy rap and I’ve heard of a Greenlandic rapper. I’ve got a Togolese metal band on my main playlist. There was a Black American blues singer who went to Tuva in Russia to learn throat singing and got nicknamed “Earthquake” becauseof how low his voice was. People like music from all over
Yeah, the normal population can still live a normal life. But the murder rate of the 20-24 y.o. where both parents have an immigration background is 10 times higher than the normal pop. (176 p. 100k to 16 p. 100k), which is pretty fucking high.
Sweden took in more refugees than it had infrastructure to help integrate with. Swedes are culturally insular so when there were friction points the Swedish reaction is pull back. This leads to isolation. That lead to ghettos and a perfect breading ground for crime and gangs. It’s mainly Kurds and Somalis pushing cocaine that fueling a turf war. Because of Swedens laws protecting minors the gangs have figured out that paying them for hits on rivals and their families had little penalty. This started in Denmark as their testing ground. Sweden is trying to pass laws which would effectively expel the minor and their families for these kinds of crimes, but it’s a reactionary policy which won’t solve the underlying problems. There’s no simple quick fix here.
I think the Nordic countries get held up as these utopias when that’s actually far from the truth. I have a Swedish friend on a disability pension, and I’m also on the same sort of pension here in Australia. She gets a bit less than half of what I do a month. It’s not like she has other social programs that make up for it really either. We both have access to similar healthcare, I think I’m paying less for meds, I have much better disability insurance covering other things like support work and mobility aids.
I think some people just have this false impression of places like Sweden. I guess they look pretty great if you’re from the US but yeah…
Plus they have basically taxed alcohol out of use. Gotten rid of paper money, there is a lot to be desired.
Which probably has the same effect as prohibition in the US, with huge financial incentive for smuggling and black markets. Another stupid thing, every half-brained goon can make alcohol unless you forbid fruits and sugar.
I have been brewing my own for a few years now, drinking moderately every day this year all homebrewed for the most part. It is so much cheaper. And less running to the store. Plus there is no record of you being a frequent user of alcohol when you brew it yourself. Which in the US could very well be used against you on me law enforcement Information Network they use.
It doesn’t really. The only smuggling is for yourself in form of alcohol tourism where those living close to borders drive across and stock up on it.
Alcohol is still available in Sweden, just more expensive. Hardly anyone turns to the black market to get like 30% off.
Meh, Australia is the same on both these counts, though alcohol is still very heavily used. Those things are objectively less of a pawblem than welfare programs not being liveable.
as hard as it is to accept, a lot of the issues were imported by immigration and a failure to make sure that the immigrants get integrated into society. from what i know, there’s a pretty deep divide there, with immigrants being disadvantaged in society and the swedes themselves feeling overwhelmed by a flood of immigrants. Sadly that’s a good substrate for gang violence and yeah, like you said, it’s stupid.
Edit since people seem to misunderstand: The failure lies in the integration, not with the immigrants. Sweden imported a lot of traumatized people and neither gave them therapy nor the means to function in swedish society a.k.a. education so they can get jobs. The gangbangers today are second or third generation immigrants mixed with the lower class native kids, all of them inherited the trauma from their parents through abuse and addiction. All of them share that they don’t have a perspective for the future that would give them a way out.
>account less than a day old
>it’s immigrant’s faultyeah, alright bestie
Rampant immigration good, morally correct and has no consequences ever
You see this is the problem. In real life, two things are often true at the same time. Like not all immigrants being criminals but immigrants committing violent crimes at a higher rate than the native population. I mean if you are gonna claim that the cause isn’t immigration then at least provide a counter reason. The optics are not great statistically:
https://bra.se/english/publications/archive/2025-07-04-homicide-victims-and-perpetrators
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08862605241311611
The reasons can be whatever, you can argue it’s not tied to their culture or their background but it’s because of systemic issues in the country like having less access to social nets. I can accept that and I believe that too. That is still not an argument to allow everyone in willy nilly and then also give them access to social nets so that they become overwhelmed to the point the entire thing collapses. So yeah, immigration needs to be controlled no matter where, but especially in places with strong safety nets.
Yeah, that was my point. The asylum system in Sweden was very permissive, but left the immigrants stranded. Those coming into the land did not have the education or skills that were needed in sweden, and there weren’t enough programs to treat PTSD and educate those coming into the country. That means you have a lot of traumatized people sitting around without jobs. Those Gangs now are the second or third generation of immigrants that are still trapped in this limbo, getting traumatized by their disillusioned and STILL NOT therapied parents.
Rampant immigration good, morally correct and has no consequences ever
Yes, actually, I unironically agree with your strawman of someone else’s position: people have a fundamental right to freedom of movement.
Sure, but countries, societies and communities in general also have a right to exclude and to generally not allow people they don’t want or that they cannot accommodate into their groups. Strong safety nets means a need to carefully manage resources.
I mean, I know it’s not popular but Hitler had a legitimate point… /S
Gross
i did not say it’s the fault of the immigrants, its a failure to integrate them, which places the blame on both sides. It’s a fact that a lot of immigrants came into sweden, which was a nice thing from the swedes, but then the immigrants weren’t given the same chances in society the natives had. I am not a nazi apologist, get some reading comprehension.
I just switched over from db0 ( https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/a_wild_mimic_appears ).
I am not a nazi apologist, get some reading comprehension.
I can’t find where I called you one.
you insinuated it, and i dont want to be put in that corner. i’m pretty left wing and pro immigration, but that immigration must be coordinated and supplemented by therapy and education - both mandatory. Asylum is important, but the integrity of the social fabric is paramount.
- JFC, not every person that’s anti-immigration is a Nazi.
- Maybe don’t post anti-immigration, anti-asylum stuff on your <1 day old account, it’s suspicious.
- Your edit isn’t helping the anti-immigration stance I feel like you have.
- Are you even Swedish? You seem to have some deeply held beliefs about another country’s society if you’re not…
I am pro controlled immigration - if that is anti-immigration for you, then it’s a “you” problem, not mine. That includes your paranoia regarding account age on a brand new piefed instance where all accounts are new.
Uncontrolled immigration leads to the issues Sweden currently has.
No, i am not swedish, but i am austrian - we also had a lot of asylum seekers in 2015 (iirc the most in europe in relation to total population), and i can see the same mistakes here. our safety net is better than that of the swedes, which helps a lot, but the flood of uncontrolled immigration has strengthened our far right party and should the safety net be reduced i fear for a similar outcome here with a 10 to 15 year delay.
I expect that this might me due to functional police and criminal investigation systems. Less functional countries, which are in the majority, will likely fail to find the right perpetrator, fail to report on it, blame the crime on the wrong person, ignore the crime, etc.
Those suburban kids emulate street gangs while the leaders of those street gangs emulate the fathers of those suburban kids in the corporate structure.
What I wrote in the cross post:
Some context not in the article
Some 280 girls aged between 15 and 17 were charged with murder, manslaughter or other violent crimes last year
That “other violent crimes” appears to do some very heavy lifting. There are about 40 deaths a year in total in the criminal mileu. Unless I’m interpreting the data wrong
[Gangs] are even reported to have infiltrated Sweden’s welfare sector, local politics, legal and education systems, and juvenile detention care.
Yes, because liberals and conservatives sold everything. They sold it to friends, family, donors, who in turn sell it to gangs.
The Swedish government has proposed new legislation that would allow police to wiretap children under the age of 15 in an attempt to curb the violence
Not only that, children will also now be going to prison in Sweden.
[…] on encrypted messaging sites.
Ah, yes. The head of the Swedish police said in an interview the other day that Signal have no other use than recruiting for assassinations. If you see someone using it, you should call the police.
More encryption panic, better get everyone’s ID if they are online or have a phone. Because of course criminals won’t use stolen IDs or phones, just like they always use IDs and register their guns.
Also note, dispute the chats and sites being encrypted the cops have managed to review enough of them to supposedly establish a trend RE women’s behaviour asking to participate in violence. So clearly encryption isn’t a real barrier to law enforcement. But better ban it anyway!
