Something is rotten in the state of Sweden, as nearly 10 percent of its record gang membership is made up of children, writes independent journalist Peter Imanuelsen.
The magnitude of the problem Sweden is facing is beginning to sink in.
This is astoundingly shocking. A new report from the Swedish police has recently been published and it shows that something has gone terribly wrong in Sweden.
According to the new report, some 62.000 people in Sweden are connected to criminal gangs. To put this into perspective, consider that Sweden is a small country with only 10.4 million people.
“We are talking about system threatening crime with a large capacity for violence that silence witnesses, threaten social workers, infiltrate authorities and political parties…in the long run, the criminal networks threaten our free and open society” Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer said at a press conference.
What makes things even more bleak is that a whopping 5.400 people under 18 years old are connected to criminal gangs.