Now there have been a couple of reports in a row here, first that 89% of users who have assistance companies come into contact with individuals with connections to serious/organized crime, and that is a bit too much to be swept under the rug – so the government appointed a 20-month investigation to immediately solve the problem.
This has been known for at least 10 years, but perhaps it has gotten a little worse since 2015?
And the other was from the investigative journalism program “Uppdrag granskning” that professional criminals are starting to control schools.
Therefore, I started googling the latest years’ reports on the subject, and it was not a pleasant read at all. I follow our daily newspapers, and if anything, it’s in capital letters that the government is too harsh and racist, which is the problem – not the crime, which I now understand is absolutely rampant.
For a few years, I have occasionally argued in my texts that criminal gangs and criminal clans are a threat to civil society and often face a lot of criticism, so there is a long time between the texts because I can’t handle all the criticism, which naturally includes being labeled a racist at the very least, and everything one writes is misinterpreted.
The reason is that those who want to criticize refuse to acknowledge that the majority society is the tax-paying class regardless of ethnicity, and that the perpetrators are criminals regardless of ethnicity – even though that group now consists of 80% with a foreign background. But that doesn’t make it racism, and my stance is always very clear to avoid misunderstandings. The state and the police have taken over the monopoly on violence, are the law, and should protect those who pay for everything – the tax-paying majority society (unfortunately, one needs to specify “regardless of ethnicity” every time).
Of course, we should also protect everyone else, but the group that pays for the police, politicians, and the judiciary can rightfully demand that at the very least the job description is followed.
I live in a small town with a few thousand law-abiding, tax-paying residents of various ethnicities; my son’s class before we moved to the Caribbean surely had 6-7 different nationalities out of 20 children or something like that.
A few years ago, organized crime made a big move in the town when they bought a larger property from the Enforcement Authority. Since I wanted to look at it myself, I know exactly how it went – four viewings were canceled, and there was always a group of us waiting outside and had to go home, someone owned a pizzeria, some Poles who were in Sweden, someone from the neighboring town, a few others, and then us.
Then it went quiet, and later I read in some Facebook group that the property had been sold for half the starting price to a gang of criminals.
Early in the process, I had asked if one could submit any bid, and the Enforcement Authority had said that they did not accept bids below the starting price – those were the rules, so it wasn’t sold then.
Since the starting price was about half the market price, the criminal clan got the property for 25% of its value. There were no other buyers because we had never seen the property and had never been informed about when the auction would take place, only about all the canceled viewings.
Serious crime surged in the town; the main perpetrator is now in prison, and some relative without a criminal record has taken over.
The problem with criminal clans is that there is a large group of unpunished individuals loyal to the clan to draw from, so they can disguise themselves as chameleons in civil society – which this family did, and according to the police and the judicial system, everything is in order. But for us residents in the town, we now have a criminal clan constantly advancing their positions.
So what does the criminal clan do?
Since they displayed significant violence capital directly, they don’t need to commit crimes to get what they want, right? The residents in the community are worried.
The property has no activity at all, but of course, the presumed company linked to the property generates significant amounts – a classic money laundering scheme, but the Tax Agency is happy as long as they receive the taxes.
Voilà – a criminal clan has established itself and will not be hindered by the police or the judiciary and can continue to launder their crime proceeds.
Today, civil society is completely infiltrated by criminal clans; the gangs have the violence capital (which the clans also have) and have ventured into running errands for other countries for money in Sweden – which perhaps is a side note for today’s discussion for once.
When we have wealthy criminals with significant violence capital, it is almost impossible for civil society to resist – or it is not possible because there are always some who give in, and that’s enough for everything to start rotting from within.
Just look at the Enforcement Authority in my example above – it is undeniable that everything did not go right, but when I tried to rewind the tape, I got a flat-out no from them. So when we offered to buy the property instead at the same price or agree to a new auction, it was declined.
A few years ago, there was a heated debate about crown witnesses as citizens had completely stopped testifying in gang and clan trials. Now in 2025, it seems to have finally been introduced.
Why is that?
Well – the accused gang went and paid to obtain the preliminary investigation, then they found out the witness’s address, went there directly, and bribed, threatened, or murdered them.
Hallonbergen was a clear message – a couple who were tortured and murdered in the worst way days before they were to testify. The number of witnesses in gang trials dropped to zero, and after the police and the judicial system initially tried to blame cowardly citizens, they have now solved the problem after far too many years.
In the towns where the criminal clans reside, municipal employees remain completely silent and bow deeply whenever anything related to them comes up. There has been talk of a culture of silence for many years, but nothing is done. Occasionally, we hear about some municipal chief, unit manager, or department head who is supposed to address the problem, but it always goes quiet. If one were to delve deeper into it, they have surely found a new job.
And the Bar Association is now infiltrated with gang lawyers, whom they tried to defend as victims of racism until it was no longer possible.
The gangs have been successful in setting up honey traps to infiltrate the correctional system, where they have initiated relationships with female correctional officers on a large scale.
When Encrochat was cracked, it revealed that every criminal clan and organized gang with a bit of professional pride had their own bank employee laundering their money – they are called facilitators, and today they are everywhere in civil society.
I saw that the Center Party had a good opinion on the matter, but it got drowned out by Federley being forgiven and back in the party.
Municipal officials have been involved in various ways, and there are different setups to empty our tax accounts.
The money rolling is absolutely extreme – taxes don’t need to be raised, if we sort this out we have all the cash we need.
In some cases, criminal clans have managed to take over entire municipalities, such as Södertälje and Botkyrka, where they were allowed to operate for two years. They bully municipal employees out and then hire the clan’s own people so that the municipality becomes their private bank account and the sky is the limit for building permits.
If you drive past the new Duvbo area, which is a tastefully newly built area, you will see a row of Roman patrician villas right at the entrance to the area – since I had serious battles regarding building permits for the house in Bromma before we moved, I know how impossible it is, and these individuals broke all kinds of practices. Someone has simply been generous with the building permits 😀
In national politics, they have managed to become members of parliament in virtually all political parties.
I would argue that the problem is much larger than we are led to believe, but we have started to reach a point where we are ready to speak plainly about it with this government.
The criminal clans have several trump cards – the diversity card where they are prioritized over an ethnic Swedish applicant for many municipal and state jobs, the violence capital where the other applicant is persuaded to withdraw, and the money so they can bribe their way in.
Several authorities have had campaigns for diversity such as the Migration Agency and the Employment Service, both of which are functioning terribly today. Instead of promoting diversity and teaching Swedish bureaucracy and work ethics, they absolutely fueled corruption and no one could handle it.
If I may guess, I believe that Swedish state and municipal operations were not prepared for how corruption actually works – they were completely caught off guard. Then some loyal managers probably tried, but they were met with retaliation from the criminal clan and had to give up.
For years, I have seen how Swedish embassies in Africa sell visas to Schengen/Sweden to local employees, and when I tried to raise the issue with Swedish employees twice, they did everything to silence me – in the end, my conclusion was that they were involved in it as well. Finally, they threatened to never grant visas to me or my family 😀
So, I eventually brought it up with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, which then sided with the embassy and downplayed everything, and I spun around for a while until I got tired.
In many cases, the criminal clans have targeted municipal and state operations such as the municipalities’ social accounts, where they place their people in the organization and then it’s game on. The clan’s companies win framework agreements, their families receive maximum benefits, they get building permits for anything, permits for everything, and so on.
Jump up three sentences and you’ll understand that these criminal clans have advantages over regular applicants for positions, and therefore they will be able to climb the ladder faster than others, so the problem is increasing, and they are climbing higher in the hierarchy.
As soon as they hold a managerial position, they can start rearranging the organization beneath them and bring in loyal clan employees. Regular employees do what they can and resign in frustration – now the clan will get what they want because they can’t handle the job themselves. The clan doesn’t care about that, they won’t do the job, they just want power to benefit themselves.
The Social Insurance Agency really addressed this issue some ten years ago – they introduced a policy to report to the police, but the insane payouts have continued unabated, as clearly seen when reading the above article 😀
If the investigations were not dropped, the penalties were ridiculously low, and not a penny was recovered.
Today, society is quite helpless, and with low penalties, the professional criminals continue their careers in the profession they have chosen. We are talking about individuals who manage to embezzle tens of millions, which are then taxed and completely legitimate – how does that feel for the rest of us who pay for the party but can barely make ends meet on our salaries?
The current government makes many mistakes, but when it comes to the criminal clans and gangs, they have tried – they confiscate property, take children, and make Al Capone-style arrests where they prosecute for a minor offense and impose maximum penalties just to at least get rid of them.
Because surely a professional criminal is not suitable as a parent according to Swedish law, and the children should be taken into custody?
Some in the opposition do not want it this way and think the Tidö Agreement is too harsh and racist – and the government has barely begun to crack down on the gangs and clans, barely out of the starting blocks.
I am of the opinion that considering how corruption is rampant, and when it comes to the assistance companies, it has been known for at least ten years, and how helpless we are in the face of the problem – this is starting to become a question of civil society’s security now.
Groups with significant violence capital and the ability to bribe large amounts (and we actually have a new professional group now – bribery coordinators) have been found all the way up in national politics, and then they have the opportunity to start influencing our members of parliament and the government.
We have 290 municipalities, and criminal gangs have now spread to all smaller towns in Sweden, and Norway, and when criminal clans take over a municipality, there is zero transparency.
And if you start questioning, they play the race card, which gives them a few more years.
62,000 people have connections to gang criminality in Sweden.
And the criminal clans are an absolute mess – good luck cleaning that up.
https://actapublica.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ap_rapport_slaktnatverk.pdf
We are starting to suffer from target saturation in Sweden, and the problem is becoming too big for the control functions at the top to handle.
When the majority society’s citizens no longer receive protection or have contact with the legal system, they will choose the easy way and take the bribes instead – this is an extremely significant problem. We have 40 criminal clans and 200 gangs in Sweden that are everywhere in the country, even in towns where the nearest police station is 20 miles away.
A prison sentence is seen as a badge of honor by the gangs, and murders are committed by children who are too young to be prosecuted.
The gangs and clans now have such good finances that they can support members who are imprisoned, so it becomes an attractive career instead of a life of poverty and exclusion.
We always talk about the majority society fighting back, but there is another side to that coin as well – the gangs and clans take over instead, as in Mexico or various areas in Italy.
There are certain vulnerable areas where progressive Swedish administrative middle class wanted to move in and improve the reputation, without knowing that they were controlled by gangs, and there the cheerful families with children received a harsh reality check.
In Skarpnäck, things went well but in Östberga and Barkarby shopping center (for a while), they were not long-lasting. If their children managed to get into a fight with a child from the clan, the progressive middle-class family had to learn the hard way how clan-based justice worked, and the week after, the apartment was put up for sale and they temporarily moved in with their parents.
It was the progressive Swedish middle class who experienced living under the arbitrary violent law of a criminal gang. However, this is the daily reality for a vast number of our tax-paying citizens in the majority society of foreign origin – and they can’t move anywhere because they can’t afford it.
In Rinkeby and Tensta, the shopkeepers have finally given up as the legal system could not protect them.
There are reports suggesting that 90% of small immigrant-owned businesses pay criminals or let criminals funnel money through them after threats – that’s right 😶
This has been evolving since the 90s – for about thirty years. It was during the major police reorganization when they were supposed to reflect society at large instead of being able to handle the most violent elements of society, and “dialogue police” became an established term instead of “punishing the troublemakers.” But this has really escalated quickly – the situation has completely gotten out of hand.
There has been a shift in attitude from our elected officials, but to be honest, I believe the current government needs at least one more term to regain some control over this, and unfortunately, I am not hopeful about the opposition unless the Social Democrats (S) obtain a majority.
The day when four guys with the highest capacity for violence knock on your door, then you will truly understand how vulnerable you are, and until then, you can continue to downplay the problem – because that is the reality for families like yours and mine in vulnerable areas, below is the police’s own definition of the situation.
“Especially vulnerable areas”: Here, it is “difficult or almost impossible” for the police to fulfill their mission. Systematic threats and acts of violence against witnesses and victims in the area. Also, parallel societal structures, extremism, and a high concentration of criminals. The situation is considered acute.
So, the acute aspect in this context is that the residents in an area completely adhere to the arbitrary “justice” of the criminal clan or gang and receive no support from the legal system at all, even if they call for help.
Do you remember in Gothenburg when two clans started to fight and both closed off their areas with masked “soldiers” armed with automatic weapons checking ID cards of everyone who wanted to enter or leave?
The police were on film negotiating with the guards a few meters away and announced that they were in talks with them – I don’t think I’ve ever had such high blood pressure.
In the 90s, the riot police had beaten them unrecognizable after a few hours.
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Ad49r3/vagsparrar-gav-plotslig-radsla-i-angered
This was in 2020, but then the Swedish rule of law lost to criminal clans who controlled the lives of over 50,000 Swedish citizens for two weeks.
Did you know that 700,000 Swedish citizens today live under a parallel legal system managed arbitrarily by gang criminals and criminal clans, where the police have given up and look the other way when called for help by tax-paying citizens in the majority society?
When does this problem become so significant that one is no longer called a racist for wanting to address it?
You know what I think – those who constantly hinder the fight against the gangs and criminal clans are the real racists because most of those 700,000 citizens are probably predominantly individuals of foreign background suffering so that “Swedes” on their morally higher ground do not risk being called racists.
Did you know, by the way, that there have been 33 explosions just in 2025, and in 2024, we had a total of 337 detonations?
Anyone daring to guess the outcome of an explosion?
I guess that eventually a police officer, municipal official, lawyer, business owner, or someone else will give in and comply with the demands of the criminal clan, whatever they may be.
Then there are all those who give up at the mere threat of an explosion because they’ve read the news, so the problem is obviously much bigger than 33 incidents.
It is an absolute threat to national security if by nation we mean a functioning legal system that can uphold law and order because that is not the case today, not only for 700,000 citizens but also for all those facing threats who cannot receive protection and eventually give up when their apartment has been blown up.
And it is an absolute disgrace to consider it xenophobic to want to sort out this mess.
And the fact that 700,000 Swedish citizens live under clan rule is completely incomprehensible to me, in Sweden 😶
How could this have happened despite all the warnings over the years? At some point after 2010, warnings about serious crime began, and around 2015, vulnerable areas were on the police’s agenda.
The reports always reach a broad audience, but then politicians bury everything in their favorite pastime – INVESTIGATIONS, and the media compete to find the most neutral names possible for the problems. Today, it is called clan-based criminal network and especially vulnerable areas instead of “an entire suburb under the arbitrary law of a criminal and very violent family that beats and kills.”
Since the clans have managed to infiltrate as employees within the police force, and the police chief in Sollentuna resigned after threats, by definition, the last line of defense against these groups is under quite severe attack, I guess – if the police fall, what do we do then?
Well, not much because then the gang criminals and clans will also have police uniforms when they become our new judiciary in the area we live in 😀
And they have started to buy their way into the better residential areas in Stockholm now thanks to their criminal contacts in the banks – it costs a million to get a mortgage approved on false grounds.
Anyway, read the article, and it was indeed a police chief who chose life 😶
And here are the police officers complaining about the criminals who threaten and harass them.
Or this, explosions linked to police officers’ addresses or cars
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/7603508
I wonder how many police officers take the bribes and stay silent?
I wonder how difficult it is to recruit for the police so that the criminal clans start getting their candidates into the organization when there is a shortage of applicants for various positions?
Wondering how the rest of the judicial system looks with the “facilitators” and all others who have their stairwells blown up – for the police and the judicial system must be prioritized targets for the gangs and clans to try to pacify.
Look at that, when you write this and then google it, half of gang criminals are acquitted in trials where other types of murderers are convicted in 82% of cases 🧐
https://omni.se/halften-av-de-atalade-for-gangskjutningar-frias/a/Eadrvo
And here is a sensible article in GP
Life in Sweden nowadays 😀
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