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Mikael Damberg was standing on a playground next to Hammarkulletorget when asked how he viewed the area.
– What do I think of Hammarkullen? It’s a nice area! But criminals still have power here, and that’s not good. I have heard that many adults do not go out to the areas after 6 pm At home I go out after 6 pm.
In response to the minister’s question, one of the dozens of young women gathered around him said:
– Here, all stores close after 6pm! And the security guards, they just stand and watch when it’s messed up.
This group of young women from Hammarkullen had a longer spontaneous question time with Minister Mikael Damberg.
Photo: Lars Näslund
Mikael Damberg says the visit he made to Gothenburg on Monday where he met with the police in the Hjällbo district, the municipal housing company and representatives of senior care in Hammarkullen, was the first trip to the country since it broke out. the pandemic.
The rumor that a famous minister was visiting quickly passed. Marjam Alsaidan, 18, says someone had posted on Snapchat.
Among those who took the opportunity to speak with Interior Minister Mikael Damberg was Marjam Alsaidan, 18, from the Hoppet women’s association. In the middle, Shadiye Heydari, a Social Democrat in the Angered district committee.
Photo: Lars Näslund
– So I ran away from school. I’ll probably be absent now, she says, after telling Damberg about the Hoppet women’s association, in which she is involved.
– We need help to pay for a room. We try to involve people here with catering food preparation, we want a sewing studio, organize driving lessons, teach Swedish, he said.
Home Secretary Mikael Damberg (S) on a visit to Hammarkullen in Gothenburg. Left Jonas Attenius, City Councilor in Gothenburg (S), to the right of MP Damberg and party district chairman Mattias Jonsson (S) and to his right Bettan Byvald, a well-known social worker in Angered.
Photo: Lars Näslund
The spontaneous question time with the women ended with applause. But there were also more critical voices among Hammarkulle residents. Abu Bakar Mahmoud is a nurse and he saw the minister accompanying him and shouted:
– How fun you are here! I didn’t know you would come here.
When Damberg after After a short talk, Abu Bakar Mahmoud said:
– Look, they’re talking to officials. They can do it at a meeting in town. I voted for them, this does not look good. When they come to visit like this, it feels like they are seeing giraffes and donkeys. Like in a zoo.
Despite the smiles, Samia Suleman and Abu Bakar Mahmoud had critical thoughts about the minister’s visit to Hammarkullen.
Photo: Lars Näslund
Samia Suleman, who works on the youth initiative at Angered, said:
– We want an upgrade! We managed to highlight on social media what is also good in our areas. But when it goes off, they come to visit.
They said that many people use drugs because they live in precisely those areas.
– How will these children manage to get into the city’s secondary schools when there are so few qualified teachers here? Abu Bakar Mahmoud wondered.
– And here there are no public places for young people who often live overcrowded. Where are the resources?
Also present during the Interior Minister’s visit were friends of the Gothenburg party, such as MP Mattias Jonsson and City Councilor Jonas Attenius. In recent times, it has become clear that S in Gothenburg is not completely in line with government policy. One example is the requirement of a language test for employment in social assistance, another is the requirement that the entire municipality of Gothenburg must be exempt from the so-called EBO Act for asylum seekers.
The Minister together with representatives of the public good and the police at the Mixgården leisure center in Hammarkullen.
Photo: Veronika Ljung-Nielsen
At Wednesday’s city council meeting, the Social Democrats will also demand that the city of Gothenburg conduct its own survey on what clan structures are like. This follows the interview described with Deputy Chief of the National Police Mats Löfving on Swedish radio.
DN asks Interior Minister Mikael Damberg:
Have you read the internal police “clan report” where 36 family networks are analyzed?
– It’s an intelligence report, so we haven’t read it in detail. However, I have met with the police leadership and they have passed it and also their work against these family networks. So yeah, a good review but I don’t read the police intelligence reports.
Do you make any assessment other than the one expressed by Mats Löfving in interviews?
– I cannot make any other assessment than the police, and it has received a lot of attention. But I am a bit surprised by the debate because it is not news that we have family-based criminal networks in Sweden, in the same way that we have motorcycle gangs and loosely composed suburban gangs that account for so much of serious crime.
– So for me this was not news, so I am a little surprised that it received so much attention.
Mikael Damberg walked from the Hjällbo district to Hammarkullen together with the police.
Photo: Veronika Ljung-Nielsen
But it’s still like this The Social Democrats here Gothenburg wants, as they write, “to map the existence of clan-based criminal networks and oppressive clan structures within Gothenburg.” Is it a sensible municipal investment?
– I think it is important for municipalities to think about the impact that family criminal networks have in a district or in a municipality, because they can affect different professional categories. On the other hand, it is the police who fight gang crime in Sweden. But municipalities must work together with the police to ensure, for example, restrict criminal activity in the city.
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