This article from The Spectator tells the bitter reality of modern-day Sweden, which seems to be dying of its own tolerance. In addition to corona, the country also had to deal with a ‘summer of crime’, which has now started to refer to gang wars. It’s a bitter pill for the left-wing government, because even the tolerant cargo bike mothers and manager fathers are now starting to wake up.
Sweden is still seen as tolerant, progressive and a champion of left-wing and humane ideals. But as a result, the country now has a huge problem. Many people already pointed to the rotten gang that has arisen (Malmö for example), but that was always dismissed. Some well-known terms such as: xenophobia, racism, discrimination and general intolerance were sprinkled and the problem could be safely ignored again.
But in Sweden it has become so bad that it is no longer possible to avoid it on the left. The death of a 12-year-old girl, from a stray bullet from a gang war, sparked quite a discussion there.
Gunshots and bullets whizzing around were, according to the interviewed children (who knew the victim or came from the neighborhood), after all. In fact, they have it never experienced differently! This turned out to come as a shock to a large part of the Swedish population. As a result, the Swedish police chief blurted out and acknowledged that there are at least 40 crime families active in Sweden. Practically all of them are of foreign origin and they now even attract other immigrants who have only one goal in mind: organized crime.
You can fill in the politically correct reflex of the Swedish prime minister in this way, because in the Netherlands people would probably have reacted the same to it. ‘Let’s not link crime to ethnicity’. That was no longer possible, because the criminal gangs started blocking (masked and armed) roads and setting up checkpoints this summer!
This kind of ‘no-go zones’ has been discussed for some time, of course, but this was mentioned by the Swedish government for years fakenews (and was fought with a ‘go-go zones’ campaign, LOL). Unfortunately it was very bad this time in your face, and there appeared to be nothing at all ‘fake’ to be on!
The left-wing prime minister took it a step further. For example, according to Prime Minister Löfven, the rich children who use drugs are the cause of the problem, because they create the demand for drugs! And those poor immigrants almost have to sell drugs to survive, because they are discriminated against in the labor market!
Annie Lööf (Swedish Center Party) was able to add that many of those gang members have lived in Sweden for decades and are therefore ‘just Swedish’. She just dares to say huh? While Sweden ten times as much murders by gang violence know as Germany! And every Swede knows that it was not the case before.
In the Netherlands, this discussion is heading in the same direction. Crime is on the rise (but we no longer register it) and the Netherlands has practically become a narcissist. The criminals we see are mainly foreigners (or hardly integrated ‘Dutch’). But oh woe if you say that. And here too was not the drugscrime the problem, but the drugsuser.
In Sweden they only really woke up when they discovered a new phenomenon, the so-called ‘humiliation robberies‘robberies with a sadistic element. At the end of August, two teenage boys were found just outside Stockholm. They had been kidnapped, raped, stabbed and buried alive by immigrant youth. They barely survived. This seems to have opened the eyes of the left and moderate Swedes and now the left cabinet naturally fears the rise of ‘right-wing populism’.
Fortunately, no one can accuse them of intolerance or xenophobia!
