How Peaceful Sweden Became Europe’s Gun-Murder Capital
The most notorious gang leader fueling the violence is 36-year-old Rawa Majid, better known as the Kurdish Fox, according to Swedish police and Diamant Salihu, author of two books on Sweden’s organized-crime gangs.
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Now running his drug operation from Turkey, beyond the reach of prosecutors, Majid came to Sweden as a newborn in 1986 after his parents had fled Iraqi Kurdistan, where his mother had fought Saddam Hussein’s rule as part of the left-wing Kurdish Peshmerga militia. He later acquired Swedish citizenship.
Because most shootings in Sweden take place among individuals from migrant backgrounds, they have fueled a surge of right-wing populism. In the 2022 election, the Sweden Democrats, a party that has roots in Nazism and blames Sweden’s liberal migration policies for the violence, gained more than 20% of the votes to become the country’s second-largest. Today it rejects Nazism and white nationalism on its platform.
The new center-right government has promised to tighten migration policies, double sentences for offenses committed in “gang environments,” widen the use of electronic surveillance and expel more criminals who aren’t Swedish citizens.
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Nikoi Djane, a former gang member turned criminologist, said authorities had failed to help refugees integrate into society, instead segregating them from society in housing estates with few job opportunities or treatment for conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder.
“The perpetrators have a responsibility, but they are also victims of their circumstances,” Djane said.
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It’s always the perpetrator who is not guilty because the victim didn’t (in this case Sweden) failed to provide sustenance to the perpetrator (Muslim Criminals).