Police officers stand guard outside the adult education center Campus Risbergska school in Örebro, Sweden, on February 6, 2025 two days after a shooting there left eleven people dead.
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Officials are trying to present the ‘positive’ angle of new figures, though it hardly exists.
Swedish police officials have identified 65 so-called “vulnerable areas” across the country where crime is especially a problem, of which 19 are described as “particularly vulnerable.”
In a report released on Tuesday, December 2nd, the authorities said these areas are ridden with “violent crime, open drug trafficking, recruitment of young people into crime and a low propensity to report crime,” and that those which are “particularly”“particulary” bad have “a high concentration of criminals and elements of parallel social structures.”
Parts of the national press have dubbed these areas “ghettos.”
Following on from similar reports back in October, author Jens Ganman said the news demonstrates that officials “must close the border. Completely.”
And stop filling up all the ghettos with people that neither the police, social services, the Prevention Agency, nor any other authority can take care of or even oversee.
Indeed, Samnyttnotes that in “most” of the areas described as vulnerable, “residents with a foreign background constitute an overwhelming majority” (emphasis added).
Police officials also said that these locations are linked to a large portion of Sweden’s gang violence. That is, after they last month revealed that almost 70,000 people are now involved in or connected to organised gang crime.
Despite all this, senior figures have predictably attempted to paint a positive picture of the new findings. Intelligence official Charlotta Höglund hailed, for example, that:
Drug trafficking has moved off the streets, there are fewer attacks on police officers and security guards, while there are fewer disturbances.
Yet the police’s own numbers show that approximately 60% of all shootings in the years 2022–2024 can be linked to the ‘vulnerable areas.’
In fact, gang-related crime—including shootings, bombings, robberies and sexual assaults—has gotten so bad that Canada last month warned its citizens to exercise caution when travelling to Sweden.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
