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“Everyone has their base and everyone has their clan. Shooting each other like in Afghanistan. “
This is how the artist Sinan raps in his song “Stockholm City”, which has been screened almost nine million times on YouTube. In the video, the artist is backed by a large crowd of masked men. From time to time, the artist’s last name is exposed, tattooed on a man’s back.
The message, underlined by the firing of automatic weapons, cannot be misinterpreted. This is a sphere of power that you should not fight with.
That there is one The large number of family networks with large violent capital comes naturally in the underworld, as is the fact that Bandidos MC and Hells Angels MC today have 22 Swedish strongholds and more than twice as many loyal subgroups.
But while the Swedish authorities are no longer reluctant to act vigorously against criminal motorcycle gangs, there is still uncertainty about how family networks and clans should be managed. This is so despite many common denominators, such as the parallel administration of justice, abuse of benefit systems, social impact through threats and violence, and blackmail against individuals and businessmen. The uncertainty is probably partly due to a lack of knowledge, which in turn may be due to the delay in the Swedish criminal investigation.
A police roadblock in the center of Lövgärdet in Angered, where a man was shot and killed by masked men in front of several witnesses. The photo is from May 2017. The murder is still unsolved.
Photo: Adam Ihse / TT
Much speaks for itself that the leg has benefited family criminal networks and has exacerbated the threat to society. The harsh social studies education that the police now have to deal with, when acting against the “obstacles” of criminals in the suburbs of Gothenburg, might not have taken place if other authorities had made it clearer what the social contract looks like in a welfare society based on solidarity. Similarly, the judiciary may not have been forced to spend hundreds of millions of crowns, much later, on dealing with considerably less aid award fraud.
When Denmark now discusses the same problem as Sweden, the door to cooperation opens. Several of the family networks mapped by the Swedish police have an international distribution and are represented in Malmö and Gothenburg, as well as in Copenhagen and Berlin. Cross-border knowledge sharing and coordinated lobbying seem logical and effective.
Good news would be in that case, officials from the west coast of Sweden would be placed in the workshop. As so often in law enforcement contexts, Gothenburg has already found a model that seems to be starting to work. For three years now, the Swedish Tax Agency, the Swedish Social Security Agency, the Swedish Public Employment Service and the Public Prosecutor’s Office have worked together against the country’s most notable family network, described in detail in the highly topical book “The family” of journalist Johanna Bäckström Lerneby. The fact that the head of the family, according to the author, looks really upset indicates that the model is worth shipping for export.
Read more:
Parts of the police don’t want to talk about the concept of clans.
Kerim: “The reality is that there are clans”
The police: there are currently about fifty gang conflicts in Sweden
