The Crime Victims’ Helpline is concerned that many criminal investigations in the country will be shelved. This as many police officers are now reinforcing the Stockholm area after the recent shootings and explosions.
The violence has recently escalated, especially in the Stockholm area. Therefore, hundreds of police officers from other parts of the country have been sent to Stockholm.
This can have major consequences for other victims of crime, says the Victims’ Help Desk.
– I am very worried about that. It is tragic, too many plaintiffs suffer because their investigation is being postponed, says Sven-Erik Alhem, chairman.
About 30 policemen have been sent down from the Northern region, and there they admit that investigations of everyday crimes in particular will take longer, as they must be prioritised.
Hear the concerns of the Crime Victims’ Center and what the consequences are of concern in the player above.
25/12 – A man in his 30s is shot dead in a car park in Rinkeby in northwest Stockholm.
27/12 – Explosion at an apartment building in Enskededalen in southern Stockholm.
28/12 – Shooting at an apartment building in Gubbängen in southern Stockholm. Later that day, an apartment door in the same building was shot at.
28/12 – A gate in Farsta in southern Stockholm is blown up.
31/12 – Early on New Year’s Eve, an explosive charge detonates in a gate in Rågsved in southern Stockholm.
31/12 – Three people are shot outside McDonalds in the center of Vällingby, in northwest Stockholm. A man in his 20s dies in hospital and two are shot.
2/1 – Early in the morning a gate is blown up in Grimsta in western Stockholm. Just over an hour later, a gate explodes in Bagarmossen in southern Stockholm.
4/1 – Two men are shot in Jordbro in Haninge municipality, south of Stockholm. A 25-year-old man dies.
5/1 – An explosion occurs in an apartment building in Farsta strand in southern Stockholm.
11/1 – Three people are arrested after shooting inside the Kungsängen commuter train station in northern Stockholm during the night.
12/1 – An apartment building in Järfälla northwest of Stockholm is shelled.
16/1 – A man in his 20s is shot in Hagalund in Solna north of Stockholm.
17/1 – A powerful explosive detonates in the entrance to a restaurant on Södermalm in central Stockholm during the night.
18/1 – Three floors of an office building are damaged in a powerful explosion in Kista in the northern part of the capital.
19/1 – Two apartments in the Stockholm area are shelled on the night of Thursday. Earlier in the evening, a man was abducted in central Stockholm – three men were arrested.
20/1 – The police initiate a so-called special event due to the ongoing spiral of violence in the capital, after new shootings and explosions at night. Late in the evening, a man is shot to death in Huvudsta center in Solna. In Skarpnäck, an explosion occurs in a stairwell.
21/1 – A villa in Tumba is shelled during the night. Shooting in Enskededalen in the afternoon. No one was found injured but three were arrested. Notice that the police in Stockholm will be temporarily reinforced with about a hundred intervention police from other regions.
26/1 – Major police operation in Solna – several weapons are found. Connected to the wave of violence in Stockholm.
27/1 – Explosion at the gate to an apartment building in Akalla.