Sweden: Suspect Apprehended After School Shooting

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Facts

  • A teenager was shot and wounded at a school in Southern Stockholm, Sweden, on Wednesday morning.[1]
  • The victim, a student, was taken to the hospital. The suspect, also a student of the school, was apprehended by police following the shooting.[2]
  • Police believe that the situation is under control, with no further suspects involved. The school is no longer an active crime scene.[2]
  • According to the principal of the school, the motive behind the shooting likely stemmed from a personal conflict between the suspect and the victim.[3]
  • This comes against a backdrop of rising gang-related violence involving young people in Sweden, with the country having the highest rate of gun violence per capita in the European Union.[2]

Sources: [1]Independent, [2]Reuters and [3]The Straits Times.

Narratives

  • Right narrative, as provided by theTrumpet.com. Sweden has had an extremely distressing rise in violence in the last several years. Despite a large amount of reporting suggesting that a sizeable portion of the violent crime in the Nordic country is due to gang violence and illegal drugs, authorities have seemingly refused to acknowledge a correlation with Sweden's lenient immigration policies since 2015.
  • Left narrative, as provided by Guardian. There are many factors behind Sweden's rise in violent crime, including poverty and lack of integration and opportunity for some marginalized groups. Xenophobic fear-mongering will do very little to help this issue. Instead, a more impactful step would be to increase the early intervention efforts to provide at-risk youth with support and resources.

Predictions