Sweden gun crime

Denmark and Sweden vowed to go after gang leaders living abroad, whom they say are hiring teenagers in Sweden to carry out shootings in Denmark.

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.

A man who lost his son to a fatal shooting in 2021 has blamed structural racism and Swedes for not keeping residents of his community safe. 

Ten people have been arrested in the Stockholm region this week following two shootings that took place within an hour of each other on Tuesday evening.

A group of people, said to speak little Swedish and linked to criminal gangs, ousted a local politician who had been tough on gang crime. 

Around 20 per cent of Swedes have claimed that they would feel safer in their country if they had the right to self-defence with a firearm. 

A teenager has been charged with the death of politician Frederik Andersson outside a gym in Stockholm last year during a gang shooting.  

The Swedish government has announced it will be developing a national strategy to tackle surging levels of gang crime. 

Swedish police are sounding the alarm over the number of very young children that are being recruited and exploited by the country’s criminal gangs, including a child as young as nine who was caught in possession of a Glock pistol.

The mother of a 12-year-old shot and killed in the crossfire of a Swedish gang conflict confronted Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, demanding the next Swedish government do more to tackle the growing violence.

Following the shooting of a woman and a small child in a local playground, fearful children at a school in the Swedish city of Eskilstuna have reportedly asked if they can wear bulletproof vests.

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.

Just weeks before next month’s national election, Sweden has already matched its yearly record of fatal shootings.

A Swedish lawyer has been convicted by a court in Halmstad for tampering with evidence by planting a deactivated firearm to help get his client acquitted in a shooting case.

Swedish police warn the city may face rising shootings over a power vacuum among gangs after they arrested so many prominent criminals.

Expert Gunnar Appelgren has warned Sweden could be in for a “terrible year” fatal shootings could break records if current trends continue. 

Swedish police recorded over three times as many fatal shootings this year as the same period in 2021, the most in five years.

Frederik Andersson, a member of the Civic Collection party, has died as a result of gunshot wounds he received at a gym in central Stockholm earlier this week as he attempted to stop a gunman from shooting another man.

Sweden’s National Police Chief Anders Thornberg had admitted that migration and issues with integration have contributed to the country’s ongoing problem with violent criminal gangs. Chief Thornberg states that the ongoing issues with gang violence, particularly the high levels of

Nearly nine in ten suspects involved in fatal shootings in Sweden are either born abroad or are from migrant backgrounds, statistics reveal.

A shooting this week in the city of Linköping was the 47th fatal shooting so far this year, matching Sweden’s record-high number of shootings that took place in 2020.

On Christmas Day, a man was found by police in the town of Sandviken with critical gunshot injuries, with investigators believing the incident is linked to yet another shooting in the Scandinavian country.

A 31-year-old man has been arrested for murder following a gang-related shooting in the Swedish municipality of Botkyrka last year that left a 12-year-old girl dead. The 31-year-old was finally taken into custody on Tuesday for the shooting, which saw

Sweden’s new Minister of Culture Jeanette Gustafsdotter says she wants to investigate the links between gangster rap music and gang crime to see if the music leads to gang activity.

From January 1st, 2018, to September of this year, Sweden has seen a total of 1,296 shootings, with 169 people killed as a result and another 460 injured.

A local who works in the Stockholm no-go suburb of Tensta has said the area has begun to resemble the “Wild West” due to the continued number of shootings taking place.

The number of arrests for gun crimes in Sweden has dramatically increased since 2017 from 64 to 340 arrests last year, with over 1,300 weapons seized in 2020.

Two children aged six and seven were struck by ricocheting bullets just south of Stockholm near what police believe was a gang-related shooting.

A report from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, has revealed that Sweden continues to see an increase in deadly shootings and now has the highest level in Europe.

Despite the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Sweden is set to see a record year for fatal shootings as the number of people killed by firearms has already passed that of last year.

Beginning in 2021, the Västra Götaland region in Sweden will start to send its surgeons to South Africa in order to better learn how to treat knife and gunshot wounds. The programme, which will see surgeons travel down to the city

Swedish National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg has admitted that despite large numbers of weapons seizures and full prisons, the rate of shootings in Sweden remains high.

Sweden saw a large rise in the number of explosions and bombings last year, with the Crime Prevention Council (BRÅ) estimating at least 236 incidents in the first 11 months of 2019.

Police in the Swedish multicultural city of Malmö have announced a new operation which will see drones equipped with cameras that can surveil areas around the clock to watch for crime.

Two people were fatally shot outside a nightclub in Norrköping, Sweden, as gang violence continues to plague the country.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has claimed that there is no link between the high number of migrants the country has taken in recent years and the rising problem of gang violence.