Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson on Thursday announced a series of measures to curb crime, which she says are a result of the sovereign state’s “weakness” as the country faces mass immigration.
After fifteen days of riots that violently shook the country and already left hundreds injured in the hands of the police, Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson spoke on Thursday, notably announcing a plan and means to fight crime in Sweden. In particular, the head of government wants to tackle juvenile delinquency, which she wants to curb through closer cooperation between police and social services, and control instruments to ensure that children are at home, at school and not hanging around without parental consent.
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Most notably, the leader of Sweden’s Social Democratic Labor Party publicly acknowledged at a press conference the inadequacy and failure of his country’s integration policy for newcomers, in a direct tone that observers of Swedish politics described as “unusual”. She then back-to-back dismissed Islamism and the extreme right, which she says are “poisoning” Swedish political life and preventing that integration.
Therefore, while the number of foreign-born people now living in Sweden has doubled to two million in twenty years (one fifth of the population of this Scandinavian country), Magdalena Andersson has challenged her self-criticism and that of his party in power for eight years (and a total of almost thirty years for forty years). “The integration was too weak, while at the same time we saw massive immigration. Our society has been too inconsistent on this issue, and the resources allocated to the police and social services too few,” she said specifically, according to Reuters. Adding: “Such segregation has become established in the country that Sweden is now divided into parallel societies. We live in the same country but in completely different realities.”
mass immigration
While it has been the European country that supported the largest influx of migrants (relative to its population) since the 2015 migration crisis, Sweden has since drastically scaled back its admissions policies. The arrival in April of the leader of a far-right Danish party, Rasmus Paludan, was the pretext for unleashing violence against the Swedish authorities. The man is known for provocations and in particular for burning copies of the Koran in public places: he was preventively expelled from France in 2020 and received a residence ban in Belgium … as well as in Sweden.
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Since April 14, the announcement of his arrival in Sweden has provoked an uprising in heavily Islamized neighborhoods in the country, and police cars have been torched to the shouts of “Allah Akbar!” AFP journalists.
Rioters have repeatedly attacked law enforcement since April 14. TT NEWS AGENCY / REUTERS
Swedish-born journalist Henrik Lindell told Le Figaro that “for four days in working-class and often disadvantaged neighborhoods, men, especially young people but also women and children, threw stones at police officers and even firefighters and burned vehicles that belonged to them the police and private individuals, looting, attacks on everything that represents authority, even the social order in Sweden”.
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