Criminal gangs in Sweden has had a bit of a penchant for grenades for some time, thought not at the recent levels.
I don't have a lot of data to work with, but with what I have, my analysis would be roughly like this:
The increase in attacks started in 2013 and peaked in 2016 which was when the customs could legally intervene to stop grenade smuggling.
There was a weird situation for a while where the customs couldn't legally intervene in smuggling of grenades. In 2016 a new law was introduced that gave the customs some ability to intervene.
Yellow are totals for entire country, and the rest is in the individual cities where grenades has been used.
It's interesting to note that in Malmö which "pioneered" the increase in grenade detonations was down to zero in 2018.
As it for a time was rather well known to be essentially completely risk free to bring grenades into the country, there might have become a kind of stockpile effect. People who normally wasn't able to get hold of guns and ammunition suddenly could get hold of grenades, and then when you have this heap of grenades in your basement doing nothing, you're likely to use them eventually.
It used to be, and I still believe to be the case, that most gangs in Sweden is based, and/or organized from various European countries, mostly eastern European, and Russian I believe.
To me it looks more like the usual suspects, using an easily accessible, possibly cheap, weapon.
One might interpret the sharp rise as a reaction to some new gang trying to establish themselves, but it's really hard to derive any conclusions because of the weird customs situation regarding grenades the years before, and the fact that the increasing trend up to 2016 started back in 2013.
While it could be immigration related, it's not very likely to be refugee related if that was what you were asking?
As Swedish politicians decided not to gather stats on ethnicity deeming it unimportant, the answer depends on the political affiliation: right-wing politicians will tell you this is due to immigration, whereas the mainstream answer is that these are just gangs, and their ethnicity/race is unimportant.
>The government has announced a 34-point plan to combat the violence, including measures making it easier for police to search homes and read encrypted phone messages.
Of course they did. Couldn't let a tragedy go to waste.
Fatal shootings linked to criminal gangs have increased from around four per year in the early 1990s to over 40 in 2018. And while the blasts that have taken place in Sweden have caused no fatalities so far this year, they could be seen as a sign that the gangs are unafraid of causing damage and potentially harming people.
Guns are already mostly banned, the firearms (often automatic weapons) used by criminals are smuggled into the country mostly from the Balkan and the Baltic states.
Grenade attacks are also quite common in Sweden these are also smuggled its not like you can get a grenade license in Sweden...
There's been wide news coverage and police reports on this. Most weapons found are weapons used in the wars around jugoslavia. I cant provide you with a quick link. I live in Malmö and its a really nice city with some rougher areas, but nothing too crazy. Gangs are kind of split into bikers (Hells angels, Bandidos and the like and nonbikers. The nonbikers are mainly eastern european (m-falangen, k-falangen) but recently i think we have some somalian gang (black axe?). Problem is we have tons of immigration kids who cant find basic jobs and get tempted into a life of crime by quick money and fast cars. Main income is drugs (since everything is highly illegal, including weed) but they also do extortion etc of business owners. I think a lot of the bombs are cases of extortion. The bombs luckily arent that sofisticated (no carbombs etc) and most people getting caught/being blown up are males age 16-19 so very young.
> Most weapons found are weapons used in the wars around jugoslavia.
I was talking specifically about the claim that the weapons(automatic weapons, granades, etc) are sourced from Baltics. Which is obviously BS unless you can provide a reliable source for the claim.
All the things you are talking about are a complete non-issue in Baltics.
>A bulk of the unlicensed firearms in circulation in Sweden come from the Balkans and now the government wants to clamp down on smuggling from the region.
Less likelihood of media or police attention. Maybe the gangs are hoping (or even empirically aware) that authorities will be reluctant to investigate them -- for whatever reason -- if their activities keep under the public radar.
There are probably several factors, but some of it might be related to how the legal system works.
Even if caught and convicted, you probably won't do much time if you only damage property, and you might not end up in any of the more secure wards.
The time window for prosecution is also different, with only murder/attempted murder having an indefinite limitation time. All other scale with the maximum punishment.
Thus for lesser crimes the state has to prosecute and bring you to court within a certain time, which is shorter the less serious the crime. If the state fails to do so, and the limitation period expires, you can't get charged even if evidence turns up.
Thus many criminals - especially career criminals if my understanding is correct - actually try to avoid - killing, or maiming people is possible. It's not worth the increased risk. At least that was what I was told by someone privy to these matters quite some years ago.
"Almost a third [of the blasts] have taken place in Malmö, scene of a string of increasingly violent gun and bomb attacks that rightwing politicians have linked to the large flows of immigrants who arrived in in Sweden during the 2015 migration crisis."
It does not say what fraction of the bombs were made by immigrants. A country does have the right to revise its immigration policy based on its experiences, so this is a relevant statistic.
I lived in Gothenburg Sweden for 5 months in 2017. And I got to see the riot between neo nazis and antifa people. The most impressive part was the almost parade like quality of the polices show of force. They had about 20 massive police horses. The horses never did anything, but the policemen and women looked very regal. According to my neighbors 1000 policemen had been called in from around the country for that riot. The whole city basically shutdown. But it never got covered by media outside of Sweden.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 46.0 ms ] threadSerious question, as an immigrant myself interested in how large scale immigration effect adopting societies.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/116-granatattacker-pa-att...
I don't have a lot of data to work with, but with what I have, my analysis would be roughly like this:
The increase in attacks started in 2013 and peaked in 2016 which was when the customs could legally intervene to stop grenade smuggling.
There was a weird situation for a while where the customs couldn't legally intervene in smuggling of grenades. In 2016 a new law was introduced that gave the customs some ability to intervene.
This chart from SVT (Swedish public service television) news is probably reasonably accurate, excerpt from a link to a news article posted above: https://www.svtstatic.se/image/wide/480/20322774/1544390924?...
Yellow are totals for entire country, and the rest is in the individual cities where grenades has been used.
It's interesting to note that in Malmö which "pioneered" the increase in grenade detonations was down to zero in 2018.
As it for a time was rather well known to be essentially completely risk free to bring grenades into the country, there might have become a kind of stockpile effect. People who normally wasn't able to get hold of guns and ammunition suddenly could get hold of grenades, and then when you have this heap of grenades in your basement doing nothing, you're likely to use them eventually.
It used to be, and I still believe to be the case, that most gangs in Sweden is based, and/or organized from various European countries, mostly eastern European, and Russian I believe.
To me it looks more like the usual suspects, using an easily accessible, possibly cheap, weapon.
One might interpret the sharp rise as a reaction to some new gang trying to establish themselves, but it's really hard to derive any conclusions because of the weird customs situation regarding grenades the years before, and the fact that the increasing trend up to 2016 started back in 2013.
While it could be immigration related, it's not very likely to be refugee related if that was what you were asking?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Of course they did. Couldn't let a tragedy go to waste.
https://www.thelocal.se/20191030/whats-behind-the-growing-nu...
Grenade attacks are also quite common in Sweden these are also smuggled its not like you can get a grenade license in Sweden...
If you make claims like this, you have to provide a source.
Baltic states don't have automatic weapons or nades just lying around, nor does it have gun violence or gang violence problems.
All the weird gang-violence, nades being thrown around that happens in Sweden, acid-attacks in UK and so on.
This shit doesn't happen in Baltics.
I was talking specifically about the claim that the weapons(automatic weapons, granades, etc) are sourced from Baltics. Which is obviously BS unless you can provide a reliable source for the claim.
All the things you are talking about are a complete non-issue in Baltics.
>A bulk of the unlicensed firearms in circulation in Sweden come from the Balkans and now the government wants to clamp down on smuggling from the region.
https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&ar...
The Baltics specifically are the smuggling route the biggest Baltic source however it's Belarus.
That seems like a strange activity.
Even if caught and convicted, you probably won't do much time if you only damage property, and you might not end up in any of the more secure wards.
The time window for prosecution is also different, with only murder/attempted murder having an indefinite limitation time. All other scale with the maximum punishment.
Thus for lesser crimes the state has to prosecute and bring you to court within a certain time, which is shorter the less serious the crime. If the state fails to do so, and the limitation period expires, you can't get charged even if evidence turns up.
Thus many criminals - especially career criminals if my understanding is correct - actually try to avoid - killing, or maiming people is possible. It's not worth the increased risk. At least that was what I was told by someone privy to these matters quite some years ago.
"Almost a third [of the blasts] have taken place in Malmö, scene of a string of increasingly violent gun and bomb attacks that rightwing politicians have linked to the large flows of immigrants who arrived in in Sweden during the 2015 migration crisis."
It does not say what fraction of the bombs were made by immigrants. A country does have the right to revise its immigration policy based on its experiences, so this is a relevant statistic.