What's happening in Sweden?

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Please understand that I am very pro-immigration but it must be thoughtful legal immigration. If a country allows people to immigrate without much thought or consideration it can be the downfall of a successful society. This is exactly what has happened to Sweden and is happening to the USA.


Dutch girl, 10, stable after Gothenburg stabbing; Suspect has criminal record



A 10-year-old Dutch girl who got stabbed in the stomach in Gothenburg city center on Thursday afternoon is in a “serious but stable” condition, the police said on Friday. The police have found no connection between the 35-year-old man in custody for the stabbing and the young victim or her family. The suspect has a criminal record and mental health problems, local media reported.

The girl from Amsterdam was in the Swedish city visiting her grandparents. The child and her grandmother were walking through Brunnsparken, one of the busiest central areas in the city, when the man attacked her around 12:35 p.m. on Thursday. The man stabbed the child multiple times, including in her stomach.

Her grandmother got stabbed in the arm during the incident, presumably as she tried to protect the girl. The grandmother’s injuries weren’t serious, and she is no longer in the hospital.

Bystanders overpowered the 35-year-old man, and the police took him into custody. Investigators found two knives at the scene of the crime.

According to the local broadcaster SVT, the suspect has several convictions on his criminal record, including for the aggravated robbery of a watch shop using an automatic rifle and for assaulting a fellow prisoner without provocation. The man has mental health problems, likely aggravated by drug addiction, the broadcaster wrote.

The man now faces attempted murder or manslaughter charges after attacking the girl. “Prosecutors will shortly request the man be remanded in custody,” the police said.

Source: https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/03/dutch-...riminal-record

[rgray222]

It saddens me greatly to post a story such as this. I lived in Sweden for several years and felt it was safe, secure, advanced and beautiful. This should serve as a wake-up call primarily for Europe and the USA if it isn't too late already.

Migrants and a once-liberal paradise where the PM now admits: 'We've lost control'... SUE REID reports as Sweden is engulfed by a crime wave of rape, gang bombings, assassination - and even a reported lynching...

Claudia Mayor is a loving mother whose three teenage sons are at the heart of a horrifying story that has appalled and divided Sweden.

In the early spring of 2023, the boys launched a cold-blooded attack on a Middle Eastern migrant who had raped the 15-year-old girlfriend of their younger brother.

It left the 26-year-old migrant hanging lifeless from a rope on a forest tree.

Claudia has never spoken publicly before about the crime, which bore all the hallmarks of a modern-day lynching. It led to the teenagers, then aged between 16 and 18, being convicted of murder – although the convictions were dropped on appeal when the court could not decide exactly how the man died.

But this week, the 46-year-old housewife agreed to talk to the Mail at her small house in Uppsala, an hour's drive from the Swedish capital. 'When I heard what the boys had done to this man, it was beyond belief,' she told me. 'I slapped each of them hard.'

'But,' she added, 'I understand why it happened. Our country is changed and Swedish girls are not safe or protected from the strangers who have been invited in to live among them. Look around you. It's not mostly Swedish faces any more. There are many Arab ones from a different culture. It was not like this when I came as a six-year-old child migrant with my parents.'

Claudia's story – of which we will hear more later – is not the only one where mass immigration is being blamed for the catastrophic transformation of this once-peaceful nation into one of terrifying criminality.

On Wednesday night, an anti-Islam campaigner and atheist who had sparked violent protests in Muslim countries by burning the Koran outside Stockholm Central Mosque last year was shot dead in his flat near the capital.


Nine-year-old Luna was dragged into woods, beaten, raped and strangled with her own shoelaces in the quiet northern town of Skelleftea in Swedish Lapland, leaving her disabled

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee, 38, had been charged in August with 'agitations against an ethnic group' and had been due to appear in court on Thursday morning.

Following the assassination, Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson admitted: 'We have lost control, over a wave of violence' – an echo of comments from National Police Chief Petra Lundh, who talked of the 'brutality and ruthlessness that exists in organised crime'.

Last month, the Swedish government announced it will in future only admit newcomers who promise to make an 'honest living' and uphold the country's values as it tightened citizenship rules.

Over the past century, Sweden has been Europe's number one sanctuary for 'war weary' or persecuted people – Claudia herself came here, like others, to escape the fascist regime of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet four decades ago.

In 2015, as huge numbers of migrants headed to Europe during the Syrian civil war, Sweden welcomed 163,000 asylum seekers from the Middle East, a gesture that many today believe has provoked a national crisis.

The country that once boasted Europe's lowest crime rate is now facing rampant murder, gun warfare, a drugs crisis, illegal prostitution rackets, and a rape epidemic.

The rise in criminality is blamed by the centre-Right government on gangs disproportionately made up of first and second-generation migrants. A 2023 police report said there are 14,000 active gang members in Sweden, some of them children as young as nine or ten, with a further 48,000 people 'affiliated' to them.

Meanwhile, bomb explosions are an almost everyday occurrence. In 2024 there were 124 across the country. In the first 30 days of this year in the Stockholm area and Claudia's own county of Uppsala, there were 33 – three taking place during my short visit as rival gangs threatened or actually targeted businesses in extortion rackets.

Stockholm's per-capita murder rate today is roughly 30 times that of London and half the suspects are aged between 15 and 20 amid a huge demographic shift over the past two decades.

Between 2002 and 2023, the share of the Swedish population who are either foreign-born or have at least one foreign-born parent increased from 21 per cent to 35 per cent, according to a report by the government agency Sweden Statistics.

A rearguard action by the government means immigration has fallen – just 6,250 people were allowed in last year. Migration Minister Johan Forssell is now even offering migrants a £28,000 grant to return home.

It is an about-turn that chimes with the mood of the nation. 'What happened during the refugee crisis of 2015 was that our open-heart policy met a very tough reality,' Forssell said earlier this month. 'If you don't believe in boys and girls playing or swimming together, this is not the country for you.'

Fully Story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-lynching.html

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It saddens me to report another horrible deed in Sweden. Mass shooting with 11 dead and more wounded. It happened in a school for adults, so its not a school shooting in that sense since its not kids. Probably the shooter was taking revenge on social workers since he was left without hand outs from the office for unemployed and the poor.
Situation is still developing. Shooter, white male 35, loner and unemployed, has been disclosed but not the victims which fuels polarizing discussions on X, since it could have racist motives (but probably not as it now seems). Link goes to BBC to give you a flavour of mainstream news but I'd recommend going to X for better news on this one, like the account PeterSweden.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79d52gpd02o

Its been a long time since I wrote something, hope you people are alright. Would have hoped to return with a merrier post. Must admit that X has taken over a bit, though I still consider Avalon my home base, almost alike moving to the city but feeling only at home in your childhood small town.