The murder of notorious Quran burner Salwan Momika this week has shaken Sweden to its core. But this incident only tells part of the story of the brutal violence which has become increasingly commonplace in the Scandinavian country.
Just a day before the shooting of Momika, a relative of internationally wanted drug dealer Rawa Majid — also known as “The Kurdish Fox” — was killed in a suburb just outside Stockholm. This swiftly followed a suspected gang murder in the small university town of Lund, where a career criminal was gunned down by a 17-year-old at a train station. Yet the statistic which most shockingly lays bare the extent of Sweden’s descent into criminality is that there were over 30 bombings across the country in January alone — more than one a day.
