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Wave of Shootings in Sweden as Gangs Settle Scores
| Most of the shooters and victims are unemployed young men with immigrant backgrounds, under 30 years of age, living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods and often without a high school diploma. |
[AnNahar] Honour, debts, and prestige are serving as the pretext for an increasing number of deadly shootings that challenge the ideals of equality and social harmony on which modern Sweden was built.
"You strengthen your own gang by eliminating an external threat and you gain prestige," Eddy Paver, a reformed former member of a biker gang, told AFP.
| Now that the conquest is pretty much complete, the question of who gets all the spoils must be resolved in the traditional manner. |
Paver was long willing to pay the ultimate price in order to "belong" to a criminal gang which required absolute loyalty from its members.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-07-05 |
