Sweden: Living with guns and gangs

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sweden has become a European hotspot for deadly shootings, rocking its reputation as a safe and peaceful nation. Last year, a record 62 people were killed in gun violence in the Nordic nation, which has a population of just 10 million. Crime researchers say Sweden’s trend for shoot-to-kill murders is unique in Europe. Stockholm-based broadcaster Maddy Savage and Nikoi Djane – an ex-gang member turned criminologist – visit communities impacted by the deadly violence and explore what is being done to tackle the problem.

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0:00.0	Sport, but not as you know it.
0:03.0	Nothing is ever quite as expected.
0:05.0	Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service.
0:08.0	If the story is wriggly, contentious, or hard to tame, I'll cover.
0:13.0	Listen now, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:16.0	My son went to the shopping mall but never came back.
0:27.0	I can't find words to describe it, even today,
0:31.0	like that feeling of loss and emptiness inside me is huge.
0:36.5	When I moved to Sweden it had a reputation as one of the safest and most peaceful
0:47.0	countries on earth. Now it's a European hot spot for shootings. I'm Maddie Savage. I've been working as a journalist in
0:57.8	Stockholm since 2014. And I am Nicki Johnny. I used to be in a gang in mama, a city in southern Sweden, but now I'm a criminologist.
1:07.0	Across Sweden, there were more than 60 deadly shootings in 2022, a record in this country of just 10 million people.
1:15.0	And things aren't getting better.
1:17.0	Almost 50 people were killed in gun violence in the first 10 months of 2023, many of them in the capital where we live.
1:25.6	From the BBC World Service, this is our documentary, Sweden, living with guns and gangs. I'm in one of the neighborhoods recently affected by gun violence and worryingly for me it's the neighborhood where I live. In October
1:56.3	the parents of two young children were found shot inside their home here in
2:00.2	Teleform Plan just a few subway stops south of the city centre and a few minutes
2:04.6	walk from my flat. The father died and the mom needed surgery. This is
2:10.0	quite a mixed area. There's social housing, apartments people own, and some fancy wooden
2:15.3	villas as well. And there have been a few shootings near here lately, including an 18-year-old
2:20.6	killed on a football pitch as other kids were training. A few years ago
2:25.0	gun violence in Stockholm was usually focused in just a couple of suburbs with a
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