A Swedish police officer was shot and killed on Wednesday night while on duty in Sweden in what is a rare occurrence in Nordic countries.
The rookie police officer, 33, was shot during a patrol of the Gothenburg suburb Biskopsgarden, which has been plagued by gang violence in recent years.
Caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Lofven today expressed outrage at the murder, calling it an ‘attack on our open society’.
He was on patrol in a very vibrant neighborhood.
Sweden’s epidemic of bombings has no equivalent in the Western world
The shots were fired at 1 p.m. on a Sunday, in spite of a heavy police presence at the scene. A 44-year-old shop owner was killed by a bullet to the head. The murder victim was a hard-working man who was trying to make a better life for his family. Now he is dead: another victim of Sweden’s gun-violence epidemic.
On May 28, two days before the shooting, riots had broken out in the same neighborhood, the immigrant area of Hjällbo (pronounced ‘Yel-boo’) in Gothenburg, as a local criminal gang clashed with shop owners and their relatives.
The Swedish Democrats are the only party that benefits from an extra election
It’s never happened before in Sweden: an incumbent prime minister ousted from power by parliament. Even minority governments, like the one who was given a non-confidence vote today, have not seen the like before. This kind of political tumult is entirely novel.
An overwhelming majority of Swedes support the recent proposal aired by the liberal-conservative Moderate Party to task the military with assisting the police in combatting violent crime.
As many as 78 percent of respondents in a recent study by the Gothenburg-based SOM Institute argued that this was a worthy application of military force. Wholly 54 percent called it a “very important task” for the Armed Forces to assist the police in efforts against serious crime, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported.
In 2017, three out of four people suspected of murder in Sweden were migrants — a figure that seems frightfully high. The funny thing is that the Swedish Social Democrats, and others you might call multiculturalists — the “politically correct” — they have not been interested in investigating this, even though these are issues that Swedish people are talking about.
After having his asylum application in Sweden rejected, a Moroccan man has released a film where he burns a copy of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, in protest.
The man came to Sweden from Morocco two years ago on a tourist visa and sought asylum, citing persecution in his home country due to his “religious doubts”.
Erik Nord, the head of the Greater Gothenburg police area, has admitted a link between mass shootings and immigration.
The Swedish Crime Prevention Council (Brå) recently issued a report suggesting that Sweden is the only country in Europe where fatal shootings are on the rise, and that Sweden has the second most fatal shootings in Europe after only Croatia.
Who has been quietly helping the Americans spy on Sweden? Their neighbors across the water in Denmark
Alarge, investigative collaboration between Scandinavian public service outlets and European newspapers such as Le Monde and Süddeutsche Zeitung has revealed a rather sensational espionage story. The National Security Agency has reportedly been snooping on American allies, including Swedish politicians, with the help of…Sweden’s neighbor, Denmark.
Danish-Swedish politician and Islam critic Rasmus Paludan is planning to hold a Prophet Muhammad drawing contest in the Malmö ethnic enclave of Rosengård, home to a substantial Muslim population.
According to Paludan, the time is ripe to draw attention what he dubbed “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day”. Paludan underscored that this occasion will be held for a second year in a row. This time, slightly fewer Danish cities will participate, but in return a Swedish city will also be taking part, he emphasised to the news outlet Nyheter Idag.
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The Supreme Court of Sweden has sentenced a former Peshmerga fighter who fought against Daesh in Syria for war crimes.
During the war in Syria, the 35-year-old Kurdish man was photographed posing with the dead bodies of Daesh combatants, the news outlet Fria Tider reported.
In connection with the offensive, the man posed on four occasions in photographs and in a film in front of maimed and mutilated enemy corpses alongside his brothers in arms. The photographs and the film, which featured the soldiers putting their feet on the dead bodies, were later published on social media.
Six women have been killed in just five weeks in Sweden, reigniting debates about domestic violence in a country usually praised for its gender equality.
…In Flemingsberg, a low-income Stockholm suburb packed with tower blocks clad in primary colours, a woman was stabbed in the apartment she shared with four young children. The man arrested on suspicion of her murder is someone she reportedly knew well.
…One major political sticking point is whether the recent violence should be connected to Sweden’s recent wave of immigration. Swedish police don’t register criminal suspects according to ethnicity, but prosecutors say several of the men facing trial have non-Swedish backgrounds, and that’s been used as ammunition by anti-immigration parties.
In a televised party leader debate last week, the leader of the nationalist Sweden Democrats Jimmie Akesson called for a crackdown on what he described as “imported values” that sanction violence against women.
Sweden’s Gender Equality Minister Märta Stenevi says that Sweden does have a problem with so-called “honour crimes”, which are committed to protect or defend the supposed reputation of a family or extended community. But she believes labelling violence towards women as an “immigrant issue” is “really, really diminishing the problem”, describing violence against women as “deeply, deeply rooted” throughout Swedish society.
….Opinions are strongly divided in Flemingsberg, where Swedish pine forests intersect with a heaving, concrete, shopping precinct.
“People who live here, they don’t want to accept like Swedish laws,” says one 25-year-old woman who asks not to be named. (Emphases mine – Ed.)
As of today, more than one-third of all Swedish residents have some kind of foreign background, and their share continues to grow, owing to continued immigration and demographic trends that include differences in fertility rates.
If the current level of immigration persists, Swedes will become a minority in their own country within 45 years, according to a Finnish researcher, Kyösti Tarvainen, associate professor emeritus in systems analysis at Aalto University in Helsinki.
A study conducted by the Swedish Institute for Future Studies has revealed that women are far more active in extremists groups than previously thought, with women making up one in seven extremists in the country.
When he received his award, Rasoul Zarar Ibrahim was clearly considered a model of assimilation. But as this account notes, he still carried attitudes and assumptions from the Islamic culture of violence in his mental baggage. His daughter has paid the price. Will Swedish authorities try to protect women and girls in similar situations by working to eradicate such attitudes from Muslim migrants? Of course not. That would be “Islamophobic.”
The Swedish security police Säpo arrested two Afghans, a man and a woman, during the Easter holiday on suspicion of plotting a terror attack in Stockholm county.
Säpo announced the arrests earlier this week, saying that they took place on the morning of Good Friday following a police operation in the Stockholm region.
