He swedish government seems willing to combat the insecurity that criminal gangs and the illegal immigration provoke in the country and has taken advantage of the presentation this Monday of the ‘spring budget’ to announce substantial increases in the money destined to confront crime and strengthen security.
Thus, of the planned budget increase of 16,000 million Swedish crowns (1,450 million euros), part will go to expand prisons and detention centers.
The announcement of the Executive led by Ulf Kristersson It comes just a few days after last week a 39-year-old father shot to death in broad daylight in the country’s capital, Stockholm. Mikael, that was the victim’s name, had been upset for some time by the presence of drug gangs in your district, Skärholmen. On his way to the pool, accompanied by his 12-year-old son, he encountered a violent youth gang in an underpass. As detailed in the Swedish media, what began as a verbal exchange between the man and the teenagers escalated until one of the gang members pulled out a gun and shot Mikael in the head. She died in front of his son.
The murder provoked the immediate reaction of the leader of the conservative and sovereign Swedish Democrats, Jimmy Akessonwhich he requested in a message on Xbefore Twitterthat a «“large-scale war” against criminal gangs.
A twelve-year-old gets to see his father get shot in the head for standing up to a rowdy gang. Politically, I and the Sweden Democrats are prepared to do just about everything to ensure that what happened in Skärholmen does not happen again. International conventions, musty old arguments about…
— Jimmie Åkesson (@jimmieakesson) April 11, 2024
«A twelve-year-old boy sees his father shot in the head for confronting a rowdy gang. Politically, Swedish Democrats and I are prepared to do almost everything we can to ensure that what happened at Skärholmen does not happen again. I think international conventions, stale old arguments about socio-economic factors or nonsense about crime prevention in parks should be thrown in the trash immediately. It is not enough to belch clichés: It is time for Sweden to declare total war against each and every individual in these criminal gangs.«Akesson wrote in a message that at the moment has accumulated 11,000 likes.
For Akesson, the policies implemented by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson fall short of solving the problem of insecurity. From the sovereigntist party They propose the deployment of the Army in the streets of the city as a method through which to restore order and exert greater control over the gangs. Kristersson also mentioned this possibility, but as a reinforcement for the Police.
«Other parties have also approached this, but it was more about complementing the Police. I think we’re past that point and we are more likely to need military on the streets as we see in other parts of Europe«Akesson stressed.
The increased spending now proposed by the Swedish Government also seeks to quell the growing “criminal economy”: in recent years these gangs have opened health care clinics, vaccination centers and shelters for families through which receive state funds.
Therefore, the budget increase also contemplates that the Swedish Tax Agency, the Customs Agency, the Control Agency, the Social Insurance Agency and the Health and Social Care Inspectorate will receive more funding to better combat crimes related to the bands.
Swedish Democrats, whose support is key to the viability of the Government formed by the Moderate Party, the Liberal Party and Christian Democrats, promotes more restrictive policies towards illegal immigration in a country than with a 25% of immigrant population finally begins to recognize the consequences of failed multiculturalism.
In November, during a party event held in Vesteras, Akesson questioned the power of immigrants to build Muslim temples on Swedish territory. «There is no right to come to our country and build monuments to a foreign and imperialist ideology (…) Minarets, domes, crescents or other attributes that serve as Islamic monuments in the urban landscape should be completely eliminated«he assured.
The country’s former prime minister Magdalena Andersson he came to recognize that the integration of immigrants had failed. “Segregation has been allowed to go so far that we have parallel societies in Sweden. We live in the same country but in completely different realities,” Andersson said at a press conference in which she presented a list of initiatives to combat organized crime.