Sweden incorporates the Army into the fight against criminal gangs

The Government of Sweden has announced that the Armed Forces will collaborate with the Police to contain the wave of violence attributed to criminal gangs, after more than a dozen people have been murdered this month alone, the last of them a female victim on Thursday. of an explosion.

To "defeat the gangs," Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson promises to act with "all necessary resources." "Everything is on the table," he warned in a speech to the nation on Thursday with which he intended to calm growing citizen concern over the escalation of incidents. September is already the month with the most deaths since December 2019.

This Friday, Kristersson met with the main security officials to confirm that, given the "extremely exceptional" situation that the Nordic country is going through, the Armed Forces will collaborate with the Police in surveillance, logistics or analysis tasks, although the details They have not been finalized for now, pending new contacts next week.

The Government has also proposed a possible legal reform, assuming that the current regulations "are not designed for gang wars and child soldiers," reports the SVT network. The conservative leader hopes that the rest of the parties represented in Parliament will support the upcoming measures, which provide for tougher penalties and changes also in immigration matters.

The Chief of Police, Anders Thornberg, has admitted that it does not seem that this wave of attacks is going to decrease in the short term, given that unprecedented levels of "terrorist-type acts of violence" are being reached. Regarding possible collaboration with the Armed Forces, he has clarified that it will be the Police who maintain responsibility for security.