Gang Violence in Sweden Is a Crisis Decades in the Making, Experts Say

Magnus Lindgren, a former police chief and secretary-general of the Safer Sweden Foundation, said there were 15,000 ’very dangerous criminals’ in Sweden.
Gang Violence in Sweden Is a Crisis Decades in the Making, Experts Say
A police forensics team works on the site where the Swedish rapper Einar—real name Nils Kurt Erik Einar Gronberg—was shot dead in the street in the Hammarby Sjostad district of Stockholm on Oct. 21, 2021. Christine Olsson/TT news agency/AFP via Getty Images
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On March 12, sanctions were imposed on Rawa Majid, a Swedish gangster known as The Kurdish Fox, by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
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Chris Summers is a UK-based journalist covering a wide range of national stories, with a particular interest in crime, policing and the law.