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Sweden’s crime problem has become too big to ignore

Sweden’s crime problem is out of control

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

 Stockholm

‘We have an obvious problem,’ admitted the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven recently. He was referring not to the Covid pandemic, but to a summer of crime that has left even jaded Swedes reeling in disbelief. There are regular bombings, hand grenade attacks and shootings. Young men are killing each other at a horrific rate — ten times that of Germany.

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