We have war in the streets

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson paints a dark picture of Sweden in his speech at the party’s congress.

– It’s going completely to hell, in pure Swedish.

In the speech, Åkesson addresses the wave of violence that Sweden saw during the autumn and contrasts it with when he grew up in 1979 in “one of the world’s safest countries”.

– Now, almost 45 years later, I am forced to raise my ten-year-old son in something that most resembles the Wild West.

Something has broken in Sweden, he says.

– We have war in the streets today. It’s shooting and it’s blowing up like we’ve never seen before.

– The great wave of violence we experienced this autumn is unprecedented.

He says that the job of cleaning up this mess has begun but that the “complete disaster” that befell Sweden is not a mistake but a naive, dangerous anti-Sweden policy.

– Friends of Sweden. Now we are involved in governing Sweden, and we will make Sweden great again.

– But it is also time to seriously demand responsibility. We will not forget, we will not forgive.