Sweden used to be recognized for its tranquil, law-abiding inhabitants, but gang crime, gun violence, and explosives have long plagued the nation. In 2022, Sweden broke the dismal European record for the most gunshot deaths in a calendar year, outpacing the other Nordic countries by a significant margin. The nation’s police chief has written a scathing opinion piece in which he laments the “unprecedented... 

Head of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) Anders Thornberg has told Swedes to get used to the current level of shootings, saying it could remain high for many years to come. Thornberg said that he did not see an end to the current wave of shootings across the country anytime soon, saying “this can continue for five to ten years” in an interview with Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. So far this... 

The Director-General of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) has confessed that terrorism is now the “new normal” in his country. Anders Thornberg told the BBC that, while the Scandinavian country only had to monitor around 200 extremists a few years ago, it now has at least 3,000 to contend with — no small task for a country of just 10 million people, where the authorities are already unable... 

The number of militant extremists living in Sweden has soared from a couple of hundreds a few years ago to thousands today, the security police Säpo believes. “We have never seen anything like it before,” said Säpo chief Anders Thornberg in an interview with Swedish news agency TT. The vast majority of the extremists support violent Islamist ideologies, according to Säpo, whose security...