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instead of shooting somebody in his leg
they shoot somebody in his
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head
for me this is nothing but
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Terror people are now trying to get home
earlier in the
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evening well you could say that Sweden
is in a national
crisis
um sarihan still finds it difficult to
go to the
cemetery nearly 50 years ago he left
turkey for Sweden thinking it was a
peaceful
country today he's standing at the grave
of his son Sedar who was shot by
gangsters this past
March sarihan is still in
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disbelief written on a stone other words
we miss you so
much my son was more than a son to me he
was my best friend and
companion he was everything to me a
hardworking person with
principles the real estate agent was
shot dead in front of his wife and
children in his house near Stockholm
allegedly an act of
retaliation sar's son om's grandson is
allegedly involved with a gang and is
suspected of having shot at the family
home of a rival gang
member they broadcast a photo of my
grandson on the TV program
wanted 3 hours later my son was
dead the world his grandson's alleged
involvement in gang violence weighs
heavily on
um he and his family have had no contact
with his grandson for
years what
we put in a lot of effort so he could
get a job and live a normal life but
unfortunately he chose this
path gang wars have been spreading fear
and Terror in Sweden for years in 2022
they claimed 62 lives more than ever
before in Stockholm alone The Wall
Street Journal calculated that the
murder rate per capita is 30 times
higher than in
London conflicts primarily revolve
around turf wars in the drug trade
sometimes it's simply about defending
so-called honor most of the perpetrators
hell from migrant
communities they shoot through apartment
doors and at cars throw hand grenades
and plant bombs and increasing number of
innocent people are killed as a
result the government is on high
alert Sweden has never experienced
anything like this no country in Europe
has experienced anything like this I've
asked the National Police Chief and the
commander of the army to join me we want
to see how the Army is helping the
police to fight against criminal
gangs there aren't any soldiers
patrolling the streets of Stockholm
yet but for investigative journalist de
manalu the government's announcement
shows just how powerful the criminal
networks in Sweden have become some scho
but there is one major conflict at the
moment uh within a network called the
fox Tru Network that has been divided in
two
fractions uh because of depth because of
internal conflicts and they are now
fighting each other to the death a big
problem that Swedish authorities have
when it comes to dealing with this
situation that we have at the moment is
that the leaders that control a lot of
the drug Market uh they are operating
from
abroad the police in gotsa a suburb of
the central Swedish city of upsa have
deemed it to be a highrisk area
according to Swedish reports gangs like
to recruit new members
here boredom a lack of respect toward
law enforcement and low sentences all
make this easier for
gangs the area is filled with social
housing apartments built in the 1960s
and70s
these days immigrants make up most of
the
population a majority of the 10,000
households here are considered lwi
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income 15-year-old ahed takes us on a
tour of gosund he was born in Iraq and
came to Sweden with his parents 10 years
ago people have so many prejudices
against
gosund but everyone who lives here is
like
family we all get along well
together after school ammed hangs out on
the streets with his friend arid
sometimes they go to one of gods's two
youth clubs which are open all day
nobody wants to be filmed here Ahmed
says there are plenty of things to do
for fun in the neighborhood but many
kids his age still turn to
Crime yes I have friends who get into
things like that yeah but I always try
to stay away from that
stuff there's always a risk of getting
pulled into something like
that I try not to stay out too late at
night and I prefer going out with a
friend
amed's precautions are
justified in August a 13-year-old boy
was shot on a bus in
Gods he goes to ahmed's
school it's not only the victims who are
getting younger and younger it's also
the perpetrators gang leaders prefer to
recruit 14 to 15 year olds who are
typically paid the equivalent of a few
hundred for their first errands later
they might be ordered to commit murder
which pays much
more the increasingly younger ages of
new recruits shows the full extent to
which the state and Society in Sweden
are failing says expert deamant Salu
he's also a child of immigrants from
Kosovo in Sweden if you commit a murder
and if you're 16 you can get maximum
four years in youth custody where you
can have access to an iPad and
communicate with a with friends on the
other side so the risk is very low for
the reward they can get either money or
quite often
status these three social workers in
Gods take to the streets to prevent
miners from falling into the clutches of
gangs every evening at 6:00 p.m. they
head to the shopping center and talk to
security staff but more importantly to
young people
their message is simple we're here for
anyone who needs help but sometimes the
gangs are faster oh yes they are trying
to recruit the younger people uh but
what we do is like we're going in in the
middle schools like year four and five
where they're like 10 11 years old and
we try to teach them about the warning
signs and what can happen and also what
is against the law and what's uh what's
lawful and what kind of support can you
get
uh so obviously we can't give them
exactly what the recruiters can but we
do try to offer them jobs meaningful
free time uh positive role models and
stuff like that uh and
unfortunately they mostly live for the
day or for the hour and think oh maybe I
can get some status maybe I can get some
fast money they don't see how it will
turn out in the Long Haul and that's
what we really try to talk with them
about you
know ammed and Abed are still out and
about on the streets everything is quiet
in
Gunda the police are never far
away their friends meet at a boxing gym
where self-defense exercises help
relieve
stress ammed obes the going on but his
thoughts are focused on the rampant
crime affecting his
peers it's unnecessary and totally
stressful to constantly be on the
lookout for police is no life at
all on the other hand it's really easy
to commit a
crime but you can be smarter than
that according to a 2022 police report
only one in four fatal shootings get
solved the police department in Gods
thinks the criticism of its work is
unjustified because their work is
constrained by the
law there's a law from 1942 that
prohibits us from searching homes after
9:00 p.m. unless there are exceptional
circumstances
criminals don't get up until 9:00 p.m.
these
days what worries us now is that so many
innocent people are becoming victims of
these conflicts even though they have
nothing to do with
them some are pinning their hopes on
former criminals like Peter senson not
only is he a reformed gang member he
also served 4 years in
prison burglary drugs and violent crimes
that was all part of
it today he runs a program for criminals
who want to get out the brutality of
today's generation frightens
him these days it's about murdering
people it's gone to the
extreme in the past they might have
injured their opponent with a knife or
shot them in the legs the level of
violence continues to
rise at the same time we have parallel
Societies in Sweden where a gang
controls
everything they decide when you can
leave the house stop cars and tell
everyone to keep
quiet for the right-wing populist party
the Sweden Democrats now the second
strongest party in the country it's
clear who's responsible for the creation
of parallel societies and violence
migrants and Muslims in
particular this video produced by the
party claims that migration to Sweden
has only led to high costs and more
crime they claim that Swedish families
are forced to move to other cities to
escape the
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violence Adan sharabi is a former
Minister for the social Democrats and a
child of Iranian immigrants and he
disagrees we cannot stop this
development uh
without making a lot of investments in
in crime prevention and a lot of
investments in in Breaking the
segregation in the Swedish society and
and um creating a a much more inclusive
Society uh where young people have a
good chance to enter labor market and
and and find a positive future for
themselves HED and his friend arbid
don't see a future for themselves with
the gangs of
gosund instead a new recording studio in
the youth center has peaked their
interest children and the young people
from the district have already produced
a hit song titled we are
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[Applause]
gosund yeah ad
that's what we should focus on that
everyone is doing well that everyone
feels safe and at
home for many years um San also felt at
home in
Sweden but since the violent death of
his son his feelings have changed and he
says there are many to
blame
first of all it's the fault of the drug
lords who ordered the
murder and the criminals who carried it
out the third person at fault is my
grandson who got us into this situation
in the first
place and finally the
authorities who have been watching this
go on for so long when they should be
protecting their citizens
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for San is not the only person who wants
to feel safe again in
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Sweden