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Old August 13th, 2022 #397
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August 12, 2022 2:48 PM GMT+2

Analysis: Gang crime looms over election in Sweden as shootings spread


By Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson



OREBRO, Aug 12 (Reuters) - In the span of eight days in May, three young men were shot dead in a small neighborhood of the town of Orebro, part of a wave of gang violence spreading from big cities to small-town Sweden that is topping voters' concerns ahead of elections next month.

The killings took place in Varberga, a collection of low-rise brick houses about two miles (3 km) from Orebro's picturesque city centre in central Sweden. The neighborhood is home to about 3,300 people, many of them of Christian Syrian origin.

It is one of 61 areas in Sweden, all with a high proportion of immigrants, listed by police as risk areas for rising gang violence. The government says gang crime, fuelled by the drug trade, is linked to poor integration of Sweden's large immigrant community.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ad-2022-08-12/