A video of an Algerian man armed with a knife climbing a ladder to the balcony of a Swedish man’s apartment went viral on social media earlier this week after it was posted to X by several prominent users including Timcast contributor Josie Glabach, known on X as the Redheaded Libertarian and Rebel News writer Ian Miles Cheong.
“The assailant seen here climbed that ladder and knifed attacked [sic] a family. This picture captures the gravity of what it is to be unarmed and helpless. It is why we stay strapped,” Glabach wrote.
The video, taken earlier this year in May in Orrefors in Sweden’s Nybro municipality, shows 26-year-old Algerian migrant Mohammed Amana using a ladder to get onto an apartment balcony, armed with a kitchen knife. According to Samnytt, Amana was enraged by the break-up with his ex-girlfriend and sought her out at the apartment of a friend where she’d been staying temporarily.
Once he climbed the ladder to the balcony, Amana is seen in the video smashing the glass door and entering the apartment, where he proceeded to stab the friend of his ex-girlfriend while yelling “Wallah I will kill you!”
In August, Amana was sentenced to two years in prison for the attack, to be followed by a deportation order and a ban from returning to Sweden for at least ten years.
The Algerian has a long criminal history in Sweden and had been previously sentenced to deportation, but the deportation order was never carried out.
Sweden has struggled with carrying out deportations in recent years, including the deportation of criminal migrants. Last year, a survey of police across Sweden found that officers wanted the government to enforce more deportations.
Meanwhile, on social media, many questioned why Amana was able to access the apartment in the first place. Anti-woke writer James Lindsay stated, “In the olden days, people dropped heavy objects out of windows onto assailants trying to scale their walls.”
Canadian psychologist and best-selling author Jordan Peterson echoed Lindsay’s remarks saying, “A little Boiling oil Goes a long way.”
With crime on the rise in Sweden, interest in self-defence has increased. A survey released in January found that around 20% of the Swedish public would feel safer if they had the right to self-defence with a firearm.
Torbjörn Sjöström, CEO of Novus, the firm that conducted the survey, claimed the results were high for Sweden and stated, “This is not the United States, and the fact that over a million Swedes would feel safer if they could arm themselves is a huge change compared to what we are used to seeing in Sweden.”
A similar trend has been seen in neighbouring Finland, where a group of security professionals in November of last year called on the government to allow members of the public the right to armed self-defence, arguing that police were incapable of protecting all citizens from violence.
Seppo Vesala, the head of the group, even singled out Sweden as a reason for liberalising self-defence policies saying, “If you look at the situation in Sweden, that’s where the trends come to Finland. We also have more than a dozen street gangs and they involve murder trials. This in itself is an indication that the security situation is deteriorating all the time.”
The viral video of Mohammed Amana is also, perhaps, emblematic of the link between migration and crime in Sweden.
Sweden became well known for its ‘Refugees Welcome’ rhetoric during the height of the migrant crisis in 2015 and 2016, having let in more asylum seekers per capita than any other European Union country during that period.
However, since the 2015 migrant crisis, Sweden has been forced to acknowledge the link between migration and crime, particularly gang crime. A report from last year found that nearly 9 in 10 suspects in fatal shooting cases were either born abroad or were from migration backgrounds.
Men of migration backgrounds are also disproportionally involved in sex attacks and rapes according to a 2021 Lund University report that found the majority of convicted rapists in Sweden came from migration backgrounds and that nearly half were born outside of Sweden.
Greater Gothenburg police commissioner Erik Nord clearly linked migration to crime in 2021 saying, “It is no longer a secret today that much of the problem of gang and network crime with the shootings and explosions have been linked to migration to Sweden in recent decades.”
“When, like me, you have the opportunity to follow matters at the individual level, you see that virtually everyone who shoots or is shot in gang conflicts originates from the Balkans, the Middle East, North or East Africa,” he said.
