In total, 62 people died as a result of bullets last year, according to official figures. Swedena country of about 10.4 million people, with another 45 killed by enemy fire in 2021.

If we were talking about the United States, these figures would not be impressive. However, the European data is alarming: once “peaceful” and “peaceful” Sweden is now becoming a “murder hotspot,” according to a lengthy Wall Street Journal article.

“Drug control wars fueled by an influx of guns, personal vendettas and gangs of young people, many of whom come from marginalized immigrant communities, have increased gun homicide rates by about 2.5 times the European average, according to according to the Swedish National Council for the Prevention of Crime,” writes reporter Sune Engel Rasmussen in the Wall Street Journal. “The per capita gun homicide rate in Stockholm was about 30 times higher than in London. In fact, the perpetrators are getting younger and, in addition, resorting to more and more brutal tactics, such as throwing grenades and planting bombs, injuring more and more passers-by, including children,” Rasmussen continues, turning his gaze to “leaders sadly well-known criminal gangs. their activities”, for example, o 36-year-old Rava Magid (Rawa Majid), the defendant and “Kurdish fox(“The Kurdish Raven”).

“Rava Magid wants to be Scandinavian Pablo Escobar“, – says the award-winning Swedish journalist Diamant Salihu, author of the books “Tills alla dör” (“Until everyone dies”) and “När ingen lyssnar” (“When no one listens”), trying to shed light on the dark underworld. WSJ Swedish organized crime networks.

Rava Magid came to Sweden… as a baby in 1986. His parents are from Iraqi Kurdistanwhere they even fought, as they say – with the Kurdish peshmerga – against his forces Saddam Hussein.

Magid began to develop criminal activities from an early age. At the age of 20, in 2006, he was jailed for the first time, followed by other arrests, mostly for theft and drugs. When he was released from prison for the last time, in 2018, he had already “signed up” for the nickname “fox” (“räv”), and that for reasons … phonetic: because his name is “Rava” (“Rawa”), it phonetically close to the word “räv”, which means “fox” in Swedish.

Turkish citizen, now