Sweden’s government held a crisis meeting on Tuesday about the escalating gang violence. After the meeting, Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer says that they cannot continue as before.
– In light of the last two weeks’ dramatic and brutal events, there is a common opinion that it is not an option to do the same as we have done until now, says Strömmer after the meeting, in which representatives from a number of different agencies participated.
The meeting was primarily about measures to stop the recruitment of children and young people into criminal circles. According to Swedish police, three people are recruited into the criminal gangs per day. This means approximately 1,000 new members per year.
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– Unintelligible
– It is not possible to understand this crime where young people become abusers and victims, like any other youth crime. It is a completely different category with its own driving forces and structures, he says, according to SVT.
Strömmer convened the meeting on Sunday.
– Much of what we are doing now should have been done in the last eight years, he said then.
It was the Council against Organized Crime that discussed the situation. The national police chief sits here and representatives of other judicial authorities, as well as of the social authorities, the school board and child welfare institutions.
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Seven murders in ten days
– We want to ensure that all relevant actors have the same understanding of the situation so that we can have a common force in the measures, said Strömmer, who belongs to the Moderate party.
In the course of ten days, Sweden has been hit by seven shooting incidents with a fatal outcome.
On the night of Tuesday, shots were fired at the door of two apartments in the Stockholm area, and what is believed to have been an explosion was triggered at a terraced house in Trollhättan.
(©NTB)
2023-09-19 12:34:18
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