- Over the past 15 years, some 650,000 asylum-seekers made their way to Sweden, more in proportion to size of population than any other nation in the developed world - a situation leading to chaos & instability
- "We’ve taken in far too many people", says an immigration official and explains that a parallel society is emerging where the state’s monopoly on law and order is being challenged.
Stockholm, Feb.23.─ For a British boy to be killed by a grenade attack anywhere is appalling, but for it to happen in a suburb of Gothenburg should shatter a few illusions about Sweden. Last week’s murder of eight-year-old Yuusuf Warsame fits a pattern that Swedes have come slowly to recognise over the years. He was from Birmingham, visiting relatives, and was caught up in what Swedish police believe is a gang war within the Somali community. Last year, a four-year-old girl was killed by a car bomb outside Gothenburg, another apparent victim of gang violence.
For years, Sweden has regarded itself as a ‘humanitarian superpower’ — making its mark on the world not by fighting wars but by offering shelter to war’s victims.
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