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Four Shootings in Sweden as Organised Crime Spreads
23 September 2012
Local (Sweden)
While efforts to clamp down on criminal networks in Sweden's larger cities have been successful, gangs are re-forming in smaller towns.
The newspaper Aftonbladet has mapped out serious organized crime in Sweden.
It found that although several organized criminal networks have been broken up and gang ties have weakened, new networks have at the same time formed across Sweden.
One example is the town of Eskilstuna in the south-east, which experienced spiralling violence... (GunPolicy.org)