Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s (S) speech at Järva Week in Stockholm was very much about crime and segregation.
– How is it even possible for children born in Sweden and growing up here, one of the richest and most equal countries in the world, to end up in a situation where you commit murder before you have even turned 18?
Magdalena Andersson begins her speech by talking about the work against segregation and the criminal gangs, which she says “we will crack”.
– The violence we see today, it threatens the whole society. That makes people in our country victims of crime, deaths, parents burying their sons, says the Prime Minister.
“Sets over laws”
She emphasizes that the people who are hardest hit by the gangs live in areas such as Järva, ie in areas with high crime.
– This is where young boys shoot each other, this is where people are afraid, people do not dare to testify, and this is where the gangs try to put themselves over Sweden’s team and create their own rules of the game, Andersson says.
The Prime Minister points to segregation as an explanation for the fact that gangs can recruit new members.
– Something is fundamentally wrong when young boys see crime as an alternative. Something is wrong, and that mistake is spelled segregation. That is why we must turn every stone to break segregation and stop new recruitment, says Andersson.
“Sharpened over 70 penalties”
The Prime Minister also mentions the legislative changes that have taken place during the Social Democrats’ time in power.
– We have sharpened over 70 penalties. We have criminalized about 30 acts, and we have begun a historic expansion of the police, the prosecution, we are building more prisons and virtually every law enforcement agency has been given new tools, more employees and greater powers.