Sweden: Multiple Dead as Gang-Related Shootings Continue
Two people were fatally shot outside a nightclub in Norrköping, Sweden, as gang violence continues to plague the country.

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.

The majority of the suspects in shootings in the city of Malmö come from migration backgrounds, according to a report from Swedish media.

Two bystanders were injured in what Swedish police believe to be a gang-related assassination attempt on an individual previously targeted for murder.

Swedish criminologist Manne Gerell claims that changing norms and standards within the criminal milieu have led to the rise in violence currently rocking the country.

Swedish lawyer Henrik Olsson Lilja, who initially represented U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky, was shot in the head and chest after leaving a residential building in Stockholm.

Stockholm police expert Gunnar Appelgren has described Sweden as being like a “state at war” following a record number of 44 fatal shootings across the country this year. Appelgren, who serves as the coordinator of the Stockholm police force’s gang conflict

A 25-year-old man in the Swedish municipality of Töreboda has been arrested in connection with the shooting of a bus that contained a populist Sweden Democrat politician, but police say they are unsure if it was politically motivated.
