Sweden has become the gun violence capital of Europe. With gangs and drugs driving the bloodshed, we meet the people fighting for safer communities. via DatelineSBS.
Sweden, once seen as a safe and progressive nation, is now the epicentre of gun violence in Europe.
Pointing to an open-air shopping square, he tells us about a man in his 20s who was shot several times in broad daylight."You just go ahead. If you want to kill someone, it doesn't matter if it's broad daylight or in the middle of a centrum , or if it's lots of people around you.”Shootings in public spaces like this have claimed hundreds of lives across Sweden in recent years.
“We talk to them straight away when we see young people selling drugs or if they are up to something not good,” Hiba says. Their only hope is that more mothers and community members would join the fight to drive the fatalities down.