**Scandinavia’s answer to Pablo Escobar orchestrates much of the growing violence from Turkey**
STOCKHOLM—One evening in early March, Swedish police asked the country’s version of “America’s Most Wanted” to broadcast photos of two young men wanted for a shooting on a rival drug gang in Uppsala, north of Stockholm.
Three hours later, unknown gunmen knocked on the door of Serdar Sarihan, the father of one of the suspects. They shot him dead while his wife and their other children were upstairs.
The killing, which Swedish authorities say they believe was a revenge shooting, opened a new chapter of brutality in a wave of gang violence that has turned Sweden, usually known as a peaceful welfare state, into a gun-homicide hot spot in Europe.
Turf wars for control of the drug trade, driven by an influx of guns, personal vendettas and a pool of available youths, many from marginalized migrant communities, have resulted in a gun-homicide rate approximately 2½ times the European average, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.
Sweden’s overall homicide rate is about one-sixth of the U.S.’s. But in a European context, it is extraordinary. With 62 people shot dead last year, up from 45 in 2021, Stockholm’s gun-murder rate was roughly 30 times higher per capita than London’s.
Perpetrators are becoming younger, and are also resorting to increasingly violent tactics such as throwing hand grenades and placing bombs, injuring a growing number of bystanders, including children.
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.
“Rawa Majid is an entrepreneurial gang leader with ambitions to become a Scandinavian Pablo Escobar,” Salihu said. Swedish police say they believe Majid’s men were behind the killing of Sarihan.
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.
As a young man, he spent a lot of time with cousins who had started down a criminal path. He received his first, three-month, prison sentence in 2006 at the age of 20. Two other sentences followed, the most recent in 2015, after police found stashes of stolen alcohol, drugs and jewelry in his home.
By the time Majid was released in 2018, he had become known as the Fox. His first name, Rawa, resembles the Swedish word for the animal: räv. His cousin greeted his freedom with a present: a gold chain with a fox charm.
A lawyer for Majid didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The scale of the violence that accompanied the growing gang warfare has shocked many Swedes. The wife of one gang member was shot dead in the street while holding her newborn child in her arms. In January, a restaurant in a trendy neighborhood in central Stockholm was struck by a bomb blast.
They merely report on gun crime differently. Each bullet and fragment from a grenade is its own crime statistic.
Sweden is actually safer than it has ever been.
I always love (/s) bringing up the Swedish situation because the European far-left doesn’t know what to say. Both the idea of Europe as a fortress and borderless Europe is bullshit, we need a compromise and a good one at that, but we need to be able to talk about it pragmatically. Nobody wanted for some neighbourhoods of Stockholm to turn into Ramallah, and yet it happened due to policy-making based on ideology. What we need a is a bit of Realpolitik in order to counteract multi-partisan emotional warfare.
*How* yep because no one here has any idea. It’s a mystery. *How did this happen Sweden?* What possible reason could explain this?
I mean, the reason this is happening is clear, but if we openly state it we will be banned from this sub… So yeah I wonder what happened there
And this is why i’m never, ever, going to forgive the SocDems or Greens. They’ve straight up ruined my country.
This is going to take decades to fix. If it’s even fixable.
Did they run out of M75 grenades?
I’m anti-privatization. I’m pro-progressive taxes. I like walkable cities and public transport. I’m pro-labor. But holy shit will it take a lot for me to support the party that embodies those beliefs. Both the SocDems and the Moderates are responsible for this madness (the Moderates perhaps more so), but the difference between them is that the Moderates admit that their previous policy was wrong and are working to undo it. The SocDems instead pretend that they were never pro-immigration, that they always supported higher sentences and stricter borders, and that anyone who says otherwise has been brainwashed. This is at the same time that their coalition partners – Center, Greens, and Left – completely reject the consensus. They are actively pro-immigration.
Okay, rant over.
It‘s Russian immigrants fault who like to act gangster ofc
I always thought modern day Swedish people were so civilised. Would never link guns and high crime with them. What the hell happened?
Sweden always did and will always continue to support frEeDoOm fighters!
Do we all know what’s going on, but agree to keep quiet?
The future of germany
Svenskerne… hvis de fortsætter på den måde bliver man nødt til at lukke for øresundsbroen.
But you can get kebabpizza now so suppose it’s a decent trade.
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**Scandinavia’s answer to Pablo Escobar orchestrates much of the growing violence from Turkey**
STOCKHOLM—One evening in early March, Swedish police asked the country’s version of “America’s Most Wanted” to broadcast photos of two young men wanted for a shooting on a rival drug gang in Uppsala, north of Stockholm.
Three hours later, unknown gunmen knocked on the door of Serdar Sarihan, the father of one of the suspects. They shot him dead while his wife and their other children were upstairs.
The killing, which Swedish authorities say they believe was a revenge shooting, opened a new chapter of brutality in a wave of gang violence that has turned Sweden, usually known as a peaceful welfare state, into a gun-homicide hot spot in Europe.
Turf wars for control of the drug trade, driven by an influx of guns, personal vendettas and a pool of available youths, many from marginalized migrant communities, have resulted in a gun-homicide rate approximately 2½ times the European average, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.
Sweden’s overall homicide rate is about one-sixth of the U.S.’s. But in a European context, it is extraordinary. With 62 people shot dead last year, up from 45 in 2021, Stockholm’s gun-murder rate was roughly 30 times higher per capita than London’s.
Perpetrators are becoming younger, and are also resorting to increasingly violent tactics such as throwing hand grenades and placing bombs, injuring a growing number of bystanders, including children.
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.
“Rawa Majid is an entrepreneurial gang leader with ambitions to become a Scandinavian Pablo Escobar,” Salihu said. Swedish police say they believe Majid’s men were behind the killing of Sarihan.
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.
As a young man, he spent a lot of time with cousins who had started down a criminal path. He received his first, three-month, prison sentence in 2006 at the age of 20. Two other sentences followed, the most recent in 2015, after police found stashes of stolen alcohol, drugs and jewelry in his home.
By the time Majid was released in 2018, he had become known as the Fox. His first name, Rawa, resembles the Swedish word for the animal: räv. His cousin greeted his freedom with a present: a gold chain with a fox charm.
A lawyer for Majid didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The scale of the violence that accompanied the growing gang warfare has shocked many Swedes. The wife of one gang member was shot dead in the street while holding her newborn child in her arms. In January, a restaurant in a trendy neighborhood in central Stockholm was struck by a bomb blast.
They merely report on gun crime differently. Each bullet and fragment from a grenade is its own crime statistic.
Sweden is actually safer than it has ever been.
I always love (/s) bringing up the Swedish situation because the European far-left doesn’t know what to say. Both the idea of Europe as a fortress and borderless Europe is bullshit, we need a compromise and a good one at that, but we need to be able to talk about it pragmatically. Nobody wanted for some neighbourhoods of Stockholm to turn into Ramallah, and yet it happened due to policy-making based on ideology. What we need a is a bit of Realpolitik in order to counteract multi-partisan emotional warfare.
*How* yep because no one here has any idea. It’s a mystery. *How did this happen Sweden?* What possible reason could explain this?
I mean, the reason this is happening is clear, but if we openly state it we will be banned from this sub… So yeah I wonder what happened there
And this is why i’m never, ever, going to forgive the SocDems or Greens. They’ve straight up ruined my country.
This is going to take decades to fix. If it’s even fixable.
Did they run out of M75 grenades?
I’m anti-privatization. I’m pro-progressive taxes. I like walkable cities and public transport. I’m pro-labor. But holy shit will it take a lot for me to support the party that embodies those beliefs. Both the SocDems and the Moderates are responsible for this madness (the Moderates perhaps more so), but the difference between them is that the Moderates admit that their previous policy was wrong and are working to undo it. The SocDems instead pretend that they were never pro-immigration, that they always supported higher sentences and stricter borders, and that anyone who says otherwise has been brainwashed. This is at the same time that their coalition partners – Center, Greens, and Left – completely reject the consensus. They are actively pro-immigration.
Okay, rant over.
It‘s Russian immigrants fault who like to act gangster ofc
I always thought modern day Swedish people were so civilised. Would never link guns and high crime with them. What the hell happened?
Sweden always did and will always continue to support frEeDoOm fighters!
Do we all know what’s going on, but agree to keep quiet?
The future of germany
Svenskerne… hvis de fortsætter på den måde bliver man nødt til at lukke for øresundsbroen.
But you can get kebabpizza now so suppose it’s a decent trade.
Rest of Europe will follow soon ⚪️🟤⚫️🌈