Sweden is in shock after the shooting death of a father in broad daylight in a Stockholm suburb. Media reports claim he had confronted a gang of young people.
The Nordic country is grappling with a gang war that reached an unprecedented level in late 2023 with a record number of shootings amid a fight for control of drug trafficking. These gangs recruit young people who are not criminally responsible to carry out criminal acts, some of the perpetrators being as young as 12 years old.. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and opposition leader Magdalena Andersson announced they would go Thursday evening to Skärholmen, in the south of the capital, where the father of the family was killed. “The criminal system facing our country has brutal consequences for our entire free and open society,” the prime minister said in a message on Instagram. The leader of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson, said that “it is time for Sweden to declare total war on all members of these criminal gangs"