1. It is mentioned that the police believe there are 3 or 4 gangs operating in Malmo. Okay, you're the police, and you can't figure out if it is 3 or 4 gangs?
2. In Malmo, 45 percent of the population are immigrants. In the suburb of Rinkeby, outside Stockholm, 91 percent are immigrants or children of immigrants.
3. The Sweden Democrats, which has a neo-Nazi background, is polling at 20%. This is a similar figure that I quoted in prior posts. This poll was taken on June 19th so I'd say that it doesn't appear that the Sweden Democrats are increasing their popularity. Yet, I can't help but think that they might over-perform in the elections as who wants to say they are thinking of voting for a party that has a neo-Nazi background? According to the poll, they are now in second place. Even if they happen to come out in front, it doesn't mean they'd be able to form a government. If their vote level is high enough, it could create a very unstable Swedish government as strange alliances might need to happen. This could actually increase their popularity as they could argue that the Swedish government is a mess.
4. Sweden has allowed 400,000 asylum seekers into the country since 2012; however, only 26,000 were allowed in 2017. A straight average from 2012 - 2017 would be 57,000 per year. The high was in 2015 when 163,000 were allowed in.
And via Sweden's The Local, we can read about a couple recent attacks that happened in Malmo:
A 24-year-old man was shot dead in Malmö’s Lindängen district on Thursday evening, three days after a shooting resulted in three deaths in the centre of the city.
I read two other articles about the murders from other sites and none state the ethnicity of those killed, but do state the murders were gang related.
This, of course, may not seem totally unusually to read about in a US city.
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