Two shot in third night of Eskilstuna violence
Published: 2 Aug 12 14:55 CET | Print version
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Two men were shot in Eskilstuna near Stockholm on Wednesday night in what police believe to have been the latest exchanges in three days of gang-related violence.
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The shootings are the third gun-related incident to occur in the town on consecutive evenings and police believe that the shootings are part of a drug-related dispute.
"We have had them under observation for a long time, generally they are engaged in drugs offences, blackmail and other forms of violent crime," said Fredrik Wallén at Sörmlands police.
Late Monday two men were injured in a shooting outside of a school.
While the men were able to drive themselves to the local Mälaren Hospital, one remains in hospital being treated for gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
The other, 28-year-old, man was shot in the leg and he is reported to have been targeted in a further shooting the following day. He is reported to be previously known to police.
All of the shootings have been classified by police as attempted murder.
Some 20 people are believed to be involved in the criminal network and around half of them directly involved in the shootings.
None of the injured parties have been forthcoming in police interviews and police are hopeful that more witnesses will come forward.
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Great, it happened. But WHO? How is this free press if the inherent "Who? What? How? When? Why?" is censored by the government into "What?".
Are they from Somalia? Are they European? How do they look? Are they black? What's the problem of calling a person black, if he's black? I don't see how is that racist. They call as "white" and that's not racist. Calling a black person black is like calling a chinese... a chinese. If he's black, state it. If he's an arab, state it. We want to know thir race, nationallity, political views, religion, and what they eat for breakfast.
Perhaps its time to lock them up? Novel idea I know.
All I'm saying is: freedom of the press. Present it as it is. "Prevention of a Breivik" is not an excuse to censor the press. That is not, under any circumstance, democratic.
I know you think it's not that much, but it is. A free press is the watchdog of democracy. When the press is not allowed to freely report everything, and is state-funded, like in Sweden, then we have a real problem.
Is the media in Sweden too afraid that we'll learn that most crimes here are committed by refugees from a certain part of the world?
I've learned that when a name isn't mentioned then that means they are not of a Swedish background.
They don't want to hear the truth
@spud. 151 women were reported mudered by partners last year. Most of them aare not immigrants but we read of only immigrant related cases on TL. aftonbladet is my source if u want to check
"Can someone please tell me what Islam has contributed to society?"
Well the pope summed it up a few years ago when he quoted a Byzantine emperor who basically said, violence, destruction and death.
It is wonderful when these multiculturalist say you must except and embrace the islamic culture that is slowly taking over your country or you are a FAR right neo-nazi, racist (even though islam is NOT a race). YET when have any of these leftist, multiculturalist, anti- racist ever gone to say Pakistan, or Egypt, or Saudi Arabia and tried to force their multiculturalism on these countries? Why don't they go to Saudi Arabia, I hear there are wonderful beaches there and have their women swim in bikinis, have the men sit around in a restaurant and eat pork sausages and drink beer and expect the Saudis to do the same. If they don't - riot, burn cars and call the Saudis racist. I'll tell you why, multiculturalism is a ONE WAY STREET, always over there to over here, BUT never, ever over here to over there. The multiculturalist are not stupid, they do not want to be executed.
We should attack islamic fundamentalism; not pple or generalise every bad thing as belonging to a particular group. When we have some of them in our own swedish culture. No comment from me on this matter again.
these mafias involve pure swedish guys also just like them ethnikly good. the refugees that you are targetting from that part of the world just want to eat and sleep in sweden, they often taking advantage of the system socially its true but they are not the one making mafias and shooting people, i hope you are not putting all the shootings in your f...ck..ing country on their account also---- excuse for the bad english
That's right: never!
Well, Islam gave us the crowd (population), to start with, then hatred crimes, suicide bombings, Veils, Polygamy, 9/11, 7/7 and the list goes on. There is so much they have done for the society that there are not enough words to describe it.
You know how children tend to ask where is god, has anyone seen him, well now you tell them such stories you can tell them how Satan looks like.
Islam is a curse, people who realize fear the society and never stand against it and those who pretend to be secular will realize it sooner or later.
Many countries are suffering in the hands of Islam, Sweden has started to see what it is like. Your (lame) politicians need to do something about it before Sweden turns into France or England. God bless you.
"I've learned that when a name isn't mentioned then that means they are not of a Swedish background."
I think you're absolutely right about that and I have also mentioned something about it here at TL.
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"However not all immigrants are muslims and not all pple from middle east are muslims."
No, not all of them. I once knew some wonderful people from Iran. They weren't muslims but followers of the religion Bahá'í. Otherwise I wouldn't have made friends with them because Islam is not compatible with my believes. As of me I'd much rather start worshiping Oden before Muhammad!