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Photo: Johan Nilsson / TT
Police and forensic technicians in Malmö after a fatal shooting Saturday morning.
This weekend, a man was shot and killed in Malmö. As a result of that incident, 43 people were killed by firearms during the year, more than in all of 2019, despite one month remaining in 2020, Ekot says.
Seen over time, the death toll has been at the same level for several years, in 2018 45 people were shot and killed. This year, it is primarily Stockholm County that accounts for a growing proportion of fatal shootings, about half.
Linda H Staaf, head of the police’s national intelligence unit, says that much of the shootings take place in so-called vulnerable areas and are the effect of decades of failure by society.
– It is very much an integration problem. It is about society as a whole withdrawing from these areas. Shops, authorities, various social actors backed out and left the residents blown by a wave, he tells Ekot.
Staaf claims that the police are now trying to “return civil society to vulnerable areas”
– So this work must continue before we can consider that all areas are fully integrated, because there is a long way there. But we see positive trends.
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