Stockholm, Sweden, known for its picturesque archipelago and old town's ochre-colored buildings, has recently gained a negative reputation as a hub for Nordic gang activity.
Three explosions in four days have rocked the region following a record year for gang-related bombings.
The spate of bombings began Friday, damaging an apartment building with ties to gang activity. It was followed by bombings next to a hair salon on Saturday and outside an apartment block on Monday.
The recent explosions come amid two apparent bombings in the Gävleborg area, north of the Swedish capital.
According to Breitbart, authorities suspect the bombings are a result of turmoil within the Foxtrot criminal network, led by the notorious, Iranian-born outlaw Rawa Majid.
“We are investigating possible connections between the explosions, but that cannot be confirmed,” a police spokesperson confirmed to the press.
Many of the addresses were immediately linked to gang members or their relatives:
The latest string of explosions comes on the backs of a historic year for gang-tied bombings in Sweden, with 149 bombings being recorded in 2023, a new grim record for the once peaceful nation. This comes despite efforts from police, who seized an astonishing ten tonnes of explosive material from criminals during the same time period.
“We have never seen anything like this,” Malin Nygren of the National Bomb Data Center said last month.
Since the police began keeping such statistics in 2018, there have been at least 650 recorded bombings in Sweden.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson whose centre-right government came to power in late 2022 on an anti-mass migration platform has blamed the country's gang epidemic on the open borders agenda of previous left-wing governments.
“It is an irresponsible immigration policy and a failed integration that has brought us here,” Kristersson reiterated after his swearing-in ceremony.
The number of people born abroad living in Sweden is two million, one-fifth of the country's population. Most arrived between 2015 and 2022.
In April 2022, then-Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson of the center-left Social Democratic Party admitted the government had failed to integrate the vast number of immigrants into Swedish society, creating parallel societies and rising gang violence that's spread beyond low-income, immigrant dominated communities.
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