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Sweden hit by ‘unprecedented’ levels of gang violence
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/13/sweden-gang-violence-shootings-explosions
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Gang wars have brought an “unprecedented” wave of violence to Sweden, the national police chief has said, after a week of fatal shootings.
Sweden has for several years been in the grip of a conflict between gangs fighting over arms and drug trafficking, involving firearms and explosive devices.
“There have recently been after on an unprecedented scale,” police chief Anders Thornberg told a press conference on Wednesday.
“Several boys aged between 13 and 15 have been killed, the mother of a criminal was executed at home, and a young man in Uppsala was shot dead on his way to work,” he added.
The country has seen several shootings this week: four in the university city of Uppsala – two of them fatal – and two in Stockholm, where a 13-year-old teenager lost his life.
Several gang crimes had been foiled in recent days, he added, stressing the importance of preventive work.
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