Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class<br />Even President Trump weighed in on the issue, saying<br />that after taking in "large numbers" of immigrants, Sweden was "having problems like they never thought possible." Police officials are more likely to attribute gang violence to a failure of integration, citing a recent study of a Swedish street gang that found 24 percent of its members were ethnic Swedes, and 42 percent had been born in Sweden.<br />Last year, Peter Springare, 61, a veteran police officer in Orebro, published a furious Facebook post saying violent crimes he was investigating were committed by immigrants from "Iraq, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Somalia, Syria<br />again, Somalia, unknown country, unknown country, Sweden." It was shared more than 20,000 times; Mr. Springare has since been investigated twice by state prosecutors, once for inciting racial hatred, though neither resulted in charges.<br />An earlier jolt came with the death of Mr. Zuniga, who on Jan. 7 picked up the grenade, which the police<br />believe had been thrown by members of a local gang targeting a rival gang or police officers.<br />" he said. that I think we’re going to see, if we don’t stop it, more drive-by shootings with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades,<br />Gunnar Appelgren said that We have lost the trust from the people who lived and worked in this area,<br />Mr. Zuniga had complained about the changes in Varby Gard, frustrated that the police did not have better control, friends said.<br />Varby Gard has produced a street gang, the Varby Gard Network, which the police have been monitoring for two years.
