The Sweden Democrats (SD) on Friday celebrated that two months have passed without a fatal shooting in Sweden “for the first time in many years.” Indeed, that is quite something given the country’s recent struggles with gang violence.
Party officials added that “step by step we are making Sweden safe again.”
Antalet skjutningar fortsätter att minska som ett resultat av Sverigedemokraternas politik. Igår hade det gått två månader utan en dödsskjutning i Sverige, för första gången på många år.
Finnish foreign policy expert Mikael Lith commented that the SD’s “tightened immigration policy” and “sharply tightened legislation on gang crime” are particularly responsible for this shift. Just this week, measures pushed by SD—which works with the government on migration, among other matters, but is not a part of it—stripped foreign convicted criminals of the right to gain Swedish citizenship.
Rather than back such steps to reduce the spread of gang crime, Swedish establishment officials have preferred to pretend that it barely exists. For example, former Prime Minister Carl Bildt expressed his ignorance of the impacts of uncontrolled borders in December by describing gang violence as a mere “fringe phenomenon.” SD MP Martin Kinnunen jibed in response that “in the best of worlds … Bildt would have been a fringe phenomenon in Swedish politics.”
Shootings are, of course, not the only problem related to gang violence. Reports towards the end of last year revealed that extortion-driven bombings are on the up, and that gangs are increasingly exploiting digital tools to recruit children. But so long as SD and their partners continue down their current path, these criminal elements should also soon be pushed further out of existence.
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_.
