Sweden: Gangs Start Health Care Clinics To Commit Welfare Fraud
Defrauding the Swedish government makes gangs twice as much money as their drug trade.
Defrauding the Swedish government makes gangs twice as much money as their drug trade.
While President Nayib Bukele’s hard-line approach to the notorious Barrio 18 and MS-13 gangs has consistently garnered him approval from Salvadorean voters, he has been painted as a dangerous authoritarian figure, whose emergency measures constitute various human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests and mistreatment.
Albanian gangs are running the UK drugs trade and in Italy “Albanian-speaking groups” are listed alongside the notorious ’Ndrangheta criminal organisation.
After a deadly mass shooting over the weekend and years of being Europe’s capital of gun crime, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has promised some justice reforms but it remains unclear what effect they might have to deter the ongoing violence.
Cities that allow the most destructive of human behavior to take over the public space are cities where civilized life as we know it is being marginalized and forced to give way to social fragmentation. Dignity yields to savagery.
El Salvador’s iconoclastic purge of MS-13’s occult symbols reminds us that these gangs transcend crime: they are upstart tribes looking to swallow nations.
A 15-year-old was recently shot dead in a targeted act of gang-related violence. His 21-year-old companion was also shot but is not in mortal danger.
The way the government currently calculates the crime rate gives the same weight to a rape as to a robbery. If robberies go down more than rapes increase, the result—on paper—is that the crime rate has decreased.
Simply railing against illegal immigration misses the point. Industrialization, urbanisation, globalisation, and crime are today a web of interconnected factors. Latin American gangs in Madrid are the perfect example.
The real question is how the Dutch government could ignore the problem for so long, given that the gravity of the situation is no secret?
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