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[Music] [Music] instead of shooting somebody in his leg they shoot somebody in his [Music] head
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for me this is nothing but [Music] Terror people are now trying to get home earlier in the [Music] evening well you could say that Sweden
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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
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country today he's standing at the grave of his son Sedar who was shot by gangsters this past March sarihan is still in [Music]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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police to fight against criminal gangs there aren't any soldiers patrolling the streets of Stockholm yet but for investigative journalist de
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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[Music] 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
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against gosund but everyone who lives here is like family we all get along well together after school ammed hangs out on
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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security staff but more importantly to young people their message is simple we're here for anyone who needs help but sometimes the
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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only is he a reformed gang member he also served 4 years in prison burglary drugs and violent crimes that was all part of
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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[Music] violence Adan sharabi is a former Minister for the social Democrats and a child of Iranian immigrants and he disagrees we cannot stop this
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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
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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
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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
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interest children and the young people from the district have already produced a hit song titled we are [Music]
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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
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home in Sweden but since the violent death of his son his feelings have changed and he says there are many to blame
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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
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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 [Music]
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for San is not the only person who wants to feel safe again in [Music]
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Sweden
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