Sweden | Gang crime will be eradicated in Sweden in ten years, says the prime minister to Aftonbladet

Swedish the goal is to eradicate gang crime by 2032, says the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson Aftonbladet magazine in the interview.

According to him, overcoming gang crime takes about ten years. The current Swedish government started in 2022, so the results should be visible in 2032.

“In New York, it took ten years. In Denmark, it took ten years. That’s roughly the time horizon,” Kristersson told the newspaper.

He also says he wants to stand for election in 2030 and see that gang crime is defeated.

“We are constantly having skirmishes, they will continue until they are stopped. But things really do happen. The police have completely new tools, we have a higher clearance rate,” Kristersson described.

Swedish serious gang crime has been exposed in recent days, for example, in connection with the attacks carried out at the Israeli embassies in Sweden and Denmark.

Shots were fired near the Israeli embassy in Stockholm on Tuesday evening. The night before Wednesday, on the other hand, at the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen two hand grenades exploded.

A Swedish organized criminal network is suspected to be behind both acts, said Swedish public radio SVT.

Danish police announcedthat a 19-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy, who are Swedish citizens, are suspected of the Copenhagen explosions. They were presented for remand this week.

Due to the embassy attacks, Denmark has tightened border controls on its borders with Sweden and Germany. The tightening is based on “the events of the last few days in Copenhagen and Stockholm”, announced the Danish police on Saturday.