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Gang crime has been one of the big problems this fall, after several notable acts of violence.
On Saturday, Mats Löfving, deputy chief of the National Police, visited Ekot’s Saturday interview.
There, Löfving said it is eight times more common for gang breakouts to occur in vulnerable areas than outside.
– It is very clearly linked to vulnerable areas. And if we look at what characterizes these areas, there is a lack of integration, problems with housing, the labor market, school and the social situation. And it is not part of the police mission, but it is clear that there are many who have to do more each time.
“Jojo in his reasoning”
Mats Löfving believes that the police do not feel that they have “the full support of society” in this matter, but that politicians and decision-makers “become yo-yo in their reasoning” and adapt to the pressure of the media.
Mats Löfving is also asked about family-based criminal networks, which have been reported in Gothenburg, among other places.
40 family criminal networks in Sweden
He then says that there are at least 40 family-based criminal networks in Sweden today and that “the discussion about integration can be a bit naive in Sweden.”
– These clans have come to Sweden solely for the purpose of organizing and systematizing crime. They work to generate power, they have a great capacity for violence and they want to earn money. And they do it in drug crimes, violent crimes, extortion, he says.
Löfving describes that there are examples of families that have entered the business world, and also political life, to be able to govern a municipality or even Sweden.
– Here, the individual is not important, but it is even the case that the marriage is arranged to strengthen the clan. In addition, the entire family, relatives or clan raises their children to take control of the criminal organization. These children do not have the ambition to become part of society, but they have the ambition from birth and upbringing to take charge of crime, and in Sweden we are quite naive.
“The image of intelligence that we have”
Hostess Monica Saarinen says Löfving’s statement “sounds very controversial” and emphasizes that many others would say that social circumstances, poverty, housing conditions and rudeness could explain why one ended up in a crime.
Then he asks how Löfving can be so sure of his case that these people “come here with a plan.”
– Because it is the image of intelligence that we have, and it is current. But it also reflects a history that is many years old. I can take several examples of such families, or clans, from Stockholm, Södertälje, Gothenburg, Malmö also Landskrona and Jönköping. But if I start to mention this in too much detail, it would mean that I’m promoting these genres, so I won’t go into that. But there are many examples.
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