Sweden ‘vulnerable as country faces threats on three fronts’
Sweden is facing the most serious challenge to its security since the Second World War, one of its top foreign policy officials says.
Once a symbol of peace, neutrality and social cohesion, it is now threatened on three fronts: by Russia,
Islamist terrorism and armed drug cartels responsible for a wave of shootings and bombings in their battle for supremacy.
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These deprived suburbs of large cities, in which residents with migrant backgrounds are concentrated, have relatively low levels of employment and education and high levels of crime.
They act as a reservoir of alienation and are a recruiting ground for Islamist groups and armed gangs.Trust and the social contract had effectively broken down in these areas. Many of those from immigrant families
did not share the “very Nordic way of thinking” about the bond of trust between the leaders and the led.
“Large parts of the inhabitants of these areas do come from other parts of our global community, where they start on a lower level with the social contract and the basic trust between citizens and the authorities."
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On the home front the Swedish authorities have projected an air of calm, and several terrorist plots have been thwarted. However, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has called in the military to help police control the gang violence, and SAPO, the main security service, has raised the terrorism threat warning to the second-highest level on the scale.
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