Sweden crime

Three explosions rocked Stockholm over just a four-day period as Sweden is coming off a record year for gang-related bombings.

A 13-year-old boy found shot in the head earlier this month is the latest victim of a deadly gang war in Sweden, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Several cars and a building in the Swedish city of Malmo were damaged in an apparent bombing as gang violence continues across the country. 

An explosion took place in an area in the Stockholm region Thursday morning, marking the 13th explosion Sweden has seen in 26 days. 

A police officer has claimed that eight in ten arrested in Stockholm are children as violent gang crime surges.

An 18-year-old man who attacked and killed two teachers with an axe at a Swedish high school was sentenced to life in prison.

A woman and her young child were shot at a playground in the city of Eskilstuna on Friday evening amid a surge in Swedish gun violence this year.

Swedish action film star Dolph Lundgren has decried the number of rapes in his home country, claiming Sweden cannot protect women.

Sweden’s prime minister admitted there are “parallel societies” within the country in a tacit admission of existence of “no-go zones”.

Sweden has seen over 80 explosions take place in various parts of the country, a number far greater than any of its neighbours. 

Swedish police in the city of Helsingborg have arrested six people following a raid on a local apartment building where explosive materials were found.

Sweden saw just seven convictions for bombings in 2019, despite there being over 250 known cases of explosions in the same year.

Earlier this month an apartment in Östermalm was rocked by a large explosion. Now investigators claim the residence was used as a centre to distribute illegal drugs to wealthy clients.

A Swedish court dropped public endangerment charges against a teen who was caught with a large bomb in his backpack which he claimed he had thought were drugs at the time.

An analyst at Sweden’s National Bomb Guard has claimed that the growing explosion and bombing phenomenon in the country is not matched by any other industrialised nation.

Police in Malmö disarmed several devices in the southern Swedish city that were later confirmed to be explosives.

A police station in the Swedish city of Staffanstorp was targetted by an explosive device, with witnesses describing the blast as loud and powerful. The explosion occurred in the early hours of Monday morning and caused damage to the main door

A 20-year-old Afghan suspected of murdering his 69-year-old lover has told investigators he remembers killing Swedish anti-establishment journalist Joakim Lamotte, who is very much alive.

The Danish government will introduce permanent border controls with Sweden due to the rising tide of gang violence plaguing the Scandinavian country.

The number of Swedes reporting to have been victims of sexual crimes has tripled between 2014 and 2018, according to a report by the Swedish Crime Prevention Council Brå.

In a rare move, Swedish police published photos of two suspects in an assault rape case leading to both men being quickly arrested following a flood of tips from the public.

One of two suspects arrested in Gothenburg for possessing explosives has been revealed to have convictions for rioting at a political event.

A gang of masked “youths” rampaged through Sweden’s second-largest city Monday night, setting cars ablaze in an attack described as “extremely organised” and like a military operation by the Prime Minister.

A 30-year-old man in Sweden has been arrested in connection with a murder and according to investigators, he travelled to the Middle East to fight for Islamic State.

Swedish police have discovered a cache of “war weapons” during a raid in the south of Stockholm that has included automatic rifles, hunting rifles, ammunition, and drugs.

A number of men with migrant backgrounds have been convicted of a trio of murders in a Stockholm suburb, where a man was shot dead then a witness and his wife were brutally murdered.

Grenade attacks in Sweden are becoming increasingly more common and according to a police officer and a former criminal, the small explosive weapons are readily available and inexpensive.

A 20-year-old man was killed and a 22-year-old seriously wounded after being shot in the heavily migrant-populated Swedish city of Malmö on Thursday evening. Police arrested a 28-year-old man on Friday in connection with the shooting, believed to be linked to

The Swedish police force in southern Lapland, an area the size of Denmark, has been reduced to only one police car due to limited resources making police concerned they will not be able to respond properly to crimes.

Emergency room workers at hospitals in the Swedish city of Malmö have said that escalating gang violence has caused their work environment to become so dangerous that they feel their lives are at risk.

Healthcare professionals working in Swedish hospitals are living in fear as a result of threats and violence from criminal patients and their extended families.