Sweden today: Explosions took place in three different locations in and around Stockholm in one night last week. There were no injuries, just the usual shattered windows, scattered debris and shocked people woken by the blast.
Explosions so normalized in Sweden that SVT, Sweden’s BBC, did not even mention the three explosions in the country’s capital on its national news programme that evening. Instead, the main domestic story was the purported censorship of ‘big female bodies’ on Instagram.
Between January and June this year, more than 100 explosions were reported in Sweden, up from about 70 in the same period last year. A total of more than 160 suspected attacks with explosives were reported last year.
Wilhelm Agrell, professor of intelligence analysis, Lund University, warns situation so dire integrity of Swedish state in jeopardy. ‘State’s monopoly on violence has been hollowed out bit by bit and no longer exists .. armed criminal violence is increasingly similar to terrorism
