Four years ago I made a doc in Malmö about the gang violence. Trust me, it was too big to ignore then. It's outright negligible that the government has let it carry on till now. spectator.co.uk/article/sweden…
The problem with gang violence in Sweden is largely a mixture of the government pushing immigrant populations into a ghetto and ignoring them, under-resourced police, and overtly lenient laws when it comes to organised criminal violence.
Another issue is that both right and left play games with the situation. Left pretend it’s not happening and right pretend it’s bigger than it is. It then becomes a politicised issue. Meanwhile the working class in the gang neighbourhoods remain in a constant state of danger.
Another prime example of Sweden playing with itself—whilst grenades are being thrown and people are being shot in the streets they’re debating this.
Who gives a fuck what you call the gangs? They’re going to kill each other and infest poor neighbourhoods with drugs either way.
I spoke with the family of a young lad who’d been shot dead by a gang in a mistaken identity mix up. The lad, Ahmed Obaid, came from a hard working family that moved to Sweden from Nejaf in Iraq. They were furious with the government’s weak response to gang violence.
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