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Dudes riding scooters

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Dude laughing

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Young happy girls

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Flowers

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13:47:43:05 = Crescent moon

Sweden

Upsot: happy swede on scooters

often seen as a postcard of neutrality, happiness and tolerance

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Evan and Mike walking to crime scene

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File: third party Footage of a shooting

CAN WE SEE HIM HOLDING GUN

But in recent years, this seemingly peaceful nation has been rocked by gun violence.

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Mike: that’s all the evidence, could be shell casings, blood traces

Last year there were 342 shootings - per head there that’s more shootings than anywhere else in Europe

Upsot: pop pop pop ( gunshots)

and this year is on par to be the deadliest one so far.

X:
We know how to shoot.

X:
You make it fast... In the head, boom

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Ev at night sequnce

Tonight we investigate what’s behind this gun crime epidemic and how its fuelling anti-immigrant sentiment.

an unrestrained mass immigration is tearing apart and dividing Sweden.

Upsot: crowd cheer from political rally

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STORY TITLE:

Sweden’s Gun Problem

6.       

Sunrise

Summer’s almost here in Sweden

While many Swedes making the most of the long days by socialising and being outdoors.

Another man uses it pursue a unique hobby.

7.       

 Mike Stockholm

Evan; Hi, mike?

M: Yes, Hi Evan.

The car is over here.

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An office manager by day… by night, Mike  documents crime scenes in the Stockholm area

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Mike and Evan walking to car

M; about a month ago a guy was shot dead right in there … 50 metres from where I park my car.

E: Is that gang related

M: Yes it was.

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 File: 220405 Norsborg

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These images are from that crime scene

A morbid fascination to some, Mike feels a duty to record and share these crimes with society.

Often he says, they don’t even make the news

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Evan and Mike in Car

Mike

Crime statistics in every way, even if it's stabbings or shootings or explosions, everything is increasing and that's a scary development in my opinion. And we can't close our eyes to it.

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Mike gets tip offs from Facebook, news sites and some of his 40 thousand followers on Instagram

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D5_5D in car chat

Mike and Evan in car

Mike:
I think since the beginning of this year, I think I've covered around maybe 25 to 30 shootings.

Evan:
Wow, Since the beginning of-

Mike:
Since the beginning of this year in January.

Evan:
So 30.

Mike:
And that's just the ones I've been covering myself. I haven't been to all of the actual shootings.

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 Mike

We're heading for Skarpnack.

Mike

where gun violence and violence is increasing basically over the last couple of months

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Mike pointing to the pace where the shooting took place

Shots of area

Mike:
if you look into your right there. You can see on the square there was a man in his 20's who got shot with several shots.

Evan

This is like the shopping center of the area, broad daylight.

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 File: 220410 Skarpnäck, one man shot to death

GFX

Of the hundreds of shootings in Sweden last year many of them were in public spaces like this.

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See Mike in Car

Mike:
Today there's no respect for third party. You just go ahead. If you want to kill someone, it doesn't matter if it's broad daylight or in the middle of a Centrum, or if it's lots of people around you

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GFX using all of Mikes crime scene footage

GFX

By posting images of these different shootings on social media, Mike’s point becomes clear….

Swedish gun crime, is out of control.

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Ardavan 

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Malmo drone

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File: Ambulance

Malmo is on one of Sweden’s deadliest cities.

There’s been 298 shootings here in the past 7 years…

We’ve been given rare access to a hospital and one of its most experienced physicians on the frontline

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Evan and Ardavan walking through Ambulance bay

Evan and Ardavan walking into  ED

Chat over emergency department bed

Ardavan:
So this is where the ambulances come in.

Ardavan is an emergency medicine specialist – he’s treated countless gunshot wounds over the past decade.

So a patient with gone gunshot wound will be brought in here from the ambulance.

Evan:
And what would you classify a gunshot wound victim, usually.

Ardavan

It's a trauma level, one patient that means that we have everyone down here and waiting for the patient.

Evan:
It's, it's a massive commitment of, of hospital resources

Ardavan

Oh, definitely because it's not only resources from the emergency department, but it's, it's resources from the whole house, the whole hospital.

Ardavan:

so we have a lot of surgeries that, that may be postponed because all the resources are focused on this gunshot

22.   

Evan and Ardavan in ED

Evan
what sort of injuries are you normally seeing?

Ardavan:
It can be anything from wounds to the extremities, usually the legs which are not so serious to really serious wounds to the chest and to the head.

Ardavan:
However, more and more criminals are using Bulletproof vests

23.   

Evan Ardavan walking along a corridor

But this protection has only made Ardvan’s job harder.

Gang members are now shooting to kill.

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Walks into office 

Looking at a CT scan of a skull

Pointing to bullet in the head

Ardavan:

This is an example of a gunshot wound to the head, the bullet has come in into the left side of the brain come through, the whole brain from the left side and stopped at the right side of the brain.

Evan:
is that survivable?

Ardavan:
This is not survivable. Absolutely not. We can see partly because of the massive haemorrhage we are seeing. The bullet is still here. We have a lot of air in the brain. A person with this kind of of gunshot wound will unfortunately never come out from it alive.

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**Breath***

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Ardavan walks into kitchen.

SUBS IN FARSI

Ardavan in the kitchen with his mother.

ACTUALITY

FARSI SUBS

TT/Ardavan listening to mother

Ardavan sits down at table with his mum

Ardavan is not only a doctor he’s also a criminologist

Upsot: actuality

His family immigrated to Sweden in the 90’s

Male Voice – Would you like tea?

Mother – Yes, thank you.

HE GREW UP IN THE VERY COMMUNITIES THAT ARE NOW EXERPIENCING SO MUCH VIOLENCE

Ardavan

It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking to see communities, which I myself have been a part of, are today problem areas

Mother – OK. It’s become very hard. I mean there is a bad buzz around the city because of these criminals.

Ardavan – Both in the city and throughout the whole country, more or less.

As a man who lives to save lives, Ardavan is worried about the young people involved in these crimes.

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ALTS

MASTER IV

Ardavan:
They are from what we in Sweden call vulnerable areas, that is areas that have a high rate of immigrants usually, a high rate of unemployment, a low rate of education and in my opinion, that's a major failure from Sweden's part that has not been able to integrate these individuals properly to the society.

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FILE: Mord pizzeria Händelseförloppet

13:32

08:39 – Guy shot in head

Guy slumped on table

SWEDEN HAS 60 VULNERABLE AREAS WHERE GANG CRIME LIKE THIS IS HAVING A DEVESTATING IMPACT

Upsot: pop, pop, pop

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Drone Rosengard

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Burnt out car - 02:05:05:22

Rosengard is Malmö’s most notorious vulnerable area

At its peak, there were 40 shootings in this suburb alone…  in one year.

30.   

Evan Glen and Stefan walking along 00:26:31:23

For the past 40 years Glen and his colleague Stefan  have been policing this neighbourhood

Glen

We got about a hundred different nationalities living here in, in this area. We got around 20,000 inhabitants at all.

It’s estimated that 90% of the population here are immigrants, and one third are unemployed.

31.   

Glen says hi to a passer by

Glen:  See, people here are very friendly. Yes, actually. Yeah, but it's a few assholes destroying it.

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Walking to site where guy was gunned down

CUT TO CCTV

Glen:
On this place in March, 2017, a young guy, 23 years was shot to death by two killers. One with a Kalashnikov, one with a handgun.

Glen:
Normally, it's drug business that's gone wrong in some way. But in some cases it's about a girlfriend

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Evan

What kind of drugs and where are they coming from?

Stefan

They're coming from the continent, of course. We don't have any own production and usually it's smuggled over the bridge from Denmark and it's very common with cannabis, of course, but also heavy drugs like cocaine. Cocaine is very big.

Evan:
Right. So is it big business for the gangs?

Glen:
Very big, very big. They got a lot of money.

Stefan:
And you have buyers from all over the southern part of Sweden coming here too

Stefan:
and that's also a problem for us because how can you persuade a young man that earns 5,000 euros a month... or, per week to get a normal job?

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SOMALI MUMS

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Ev driving

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DRUGS AND THE LURE OF CASH IS THE MAIN DRIVER BEHIND THE VIOLENCE

I’m heading to Gothenburg, home to one of Sweden’s longest running turf wars.

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Gangs fighting footage

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In 2015, three gang members opened fire at a rival in a packed pub.

2 dead and 15 wounded – this war is still raging today

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Sequence Evan walking along road

And as I’m about to find out… it’s not only the police confronting these gangsters

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Somali mums inside preparing to go out

Hi, hello. I am Evan. Nice to meet you. What’s the name of the group?

Active mums.

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Somali mums inside

SWEDISH SUBS

HIBA: There have been many shootings. But particularly during summer and winter. When darkness falls, they may get recruited to the gangs who want to hurt people.

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Women get ready and walk out

Like most vulnerable areas this community has a large immigrant population, high unemployment and is known for drugs and gang violence.

Three or four nights a week these mothers set out to patrol the streets, looking for young men who might be involved or targets of these crimes.

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Hiba Walk and talk

SWEDISH SUBS

HIBA:

Yes, we talk to them straight away when we see young people selling drugs or if they are up to something not good, we talk to the young people and say “Why are you here? What are you doing here? “Now you must go home. It’s time to go to bed.”!

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Hiba and ladies stationary IV

SWEDISH SUBS

Evan: These guys, have guns, they are shooting at each other. Isn’t this dangerous for you?

HIBA – No.

REPORTER – Why not?

WOMAN IN BLACK HEADSCARF – Because we know these young people since they were little. All the young people in this area know us, they respect us.

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Somali Mums

outside

This group believes the community needs to lead the fight against drugs and gun crime

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SWEDISH SUBS

WOMAN IN PINK HEADSCARF:

The solution is community, and the Swedish authorities must take it seriously, many young people die every day, they have to spend money, more police presence, and customs

Hiba: So not just the police. Parents must come out and see what their children are doing out there.

We need the parents to play their part

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These mothers and aunties all know young men caught up in the gang violence.

But for Hiba, these patrols are personal.

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Evan and Hiba walking into the location –

SWEDISH SUBS

HIBA –  it is difficult for me.

HIBA – The crime scene is here, over there was the crime scene, where my son died.

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Picture of Eilas

At just 16, Elias was a good student and with a bright future.

He was sitting here with friends when he was  gunned down in cold blood.

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SWEDISH SUBS

But the guy who had the big weapon, he has, when he came, he was determined, he started shooting him, and then the other guy, he was a bit afraid, But I cannot explain.

Ev: I’m so sorry

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To date, no one has been convicted of Elias’s murder

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EVAN: Why do you think your son was shot?

HIBA - I cannot answer this question. But I know my son. My son is not part of a gang, or anything like that, (08:12:11:15)

HIBA – People say it was perhaps the wrong person

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STOP SHOOTING

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BACK IN MALMO

TWEAK SHOTS GETTING BACK INTO GEL AN STAFEN

Back in Rosengard

Glen and Stefan believe they’ve found a way to curb gang violence

The program is called stop shooting.

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Glen in office

Glen

We need to identify who's part of the criminal organizations that we have, the criminal gangs, and then we address them

Glen

it's a very clear message if you or anyone in your group shoot, kill or is involved in any deadly violence, it will have consequences for all of you, no matter who does it.

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Glen walking out of cop shop

In car driving

And those consequences mean extreme scrutiny by police and 12 other government enforcement agencies.

Including regular searches, prosecutions and seizing assets

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Evan and Glen in Car

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Glen

We are very close to harassment.

Glen

We're taking their, their jewellery because that's money. We taking the drugs because of money. They cannot own a car because we will seize it. We try to make their lives as miserable as possible

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Today, Glen is doing what’s called a notification.

While Police deter gang members with punishment, other government agencies in the program are ready to help them start a new life.

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Evan, Rebeca and Glen in Car

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Rebeca is social worker

Rebeca:
So we sit down with them and we ask them, what do you think you need, to leave the criminal lifestyle? And then we see if we can meet those needs. Basically.

Evan:
What's the profile of these individuals that you normally meet?

Rebeca:
Many of them are between, let's say, 22 and 28. So they are young men.

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Glen and Rebecca get out of the car

Talking to guy on street corning

Upsot getting out

For safety, they’ve enlisted the help of another police officer

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Glen and Rebeca walking down the street

They are meeting with a young man who owes money to a gang and has threats on his life…

For the man’s security they ask us to wait here – the audio you are about to hear is real.  

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Evan waiting on street

SWEDISH SUBS

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Glen: We have information that that you have an threat.

if you or someone in your group of friends, network, shoots, blows up, or carries out deadly attacks

We will be on you 24 hours a day.

Rebeca: If you’re sick of this, you should know there’s a way out, and we can help you with that

Gangster: What sort of help?

Rebecca: We’re open to everything,

Rebeca: we’ve helped many people, move to other places.

Gangster: And what about my mum, then? Can she come along?

Rebeca: We are open to all options which can help you, if that’s what you want.

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Glen and Rebeca walking back

Insitu chat wit Ev on eth street

Evan

How'd it go?

Glen

Yeah, it was quite good.

Evan

How many people have actually been relocated or helped?

Rebeca

Well, the last three years, we have moved 40 persons. They have been relocated to another city and we have also helped 85 others within the city of Malmo. So that's quite a big number.

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GOTHENBURG Gangster

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Sequence Evan night shots

Since the program began shootings in Malmo have decreased by two-thirds.

It’s now being rolled out in other gun crime hotspots across Sweden.

But to find out if it might work, we’ve managed to contact a gangster involved in armed crime who will talk to us only if we guarantee his anonymity.

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MR X

SUBS IN ENGLISH

Cover this IV with cut aways and night scenes of Sweden

SUBS IN ENGLISH

Evan:
In Malmö, there's a program called Stop Shoot or Stop Shooting... Do you think that could work here?

X:
What you mean, the snitch program?

Evan:
Is that what you see it as, a snitch program? But aren't they just helping people getting out of the city,

X :

Why the fuck should we do that? We're no snitches. Police, they can go fuck themselves.

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Picks up gun and points it off camera

Evan:
What's the cause of the killing?

X

Drugs, money, power.

Evan

How young were you when you first got hold of a weapon?

X

13. I had to learn how to shoot. We're not ghetto blaster here, in America that holds the weapon like this, you know? We know how to shoot. And you move once the," Pha! Pha!"

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SUBS IN ENGLISH

Evan:
How has it changed from your day when you grew up

X: Nowadays, you give a gun to a 13 year old... He does prison for children, for maximum three years for killing somebody.

Evan

We heard that... More and more people are wearing Bulletproof vests.

X

It doesn't help shit.

Evan

No?

X

Because we aim at the head. Why the fuck should you have a vest on? If you're ready to kill somebody, you're not going to shoot them in the chest. You make it fast... In the head, boom.

****hold***

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File from Shooting

Night time stuff from Stockholm

I’m in Sweden where record rates of gun crime have left authorities scrambling for solutions.

And with an election coming up in September, it’s proving to be a defining election issue.

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TEXT: 44% believe law and order is the most important political issue

SOURCE: Aftonbladet

According to recent polls 44% of Swedish voters believe law and order is the most important political issue

And one party says it’s offering a solution to the problem it saw coming years ago.

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Not a day goes by without us meeting new headlines about fatal shootings and other serious crime.  

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Evan at rally

I’m at the 2022 campaign launch of the Sweden Democrats.

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Jimmy on stage

Jimmie Åkesson, the charismatic leader of the party, has moderated this group from a white nationalist outfit, into a centre right, populist powerhouse…

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With most of the gun crime occurring within migrant communities, Akesson is blaming immigration for the law-and-order problem.

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Jimmy Upsot

we must aggressively strike back at the anti-social forces that want to destroy our country.

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And they’ve made it the cornerstone of their 2022 campaign.

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Jimmie on stage

[35:40] Sweden should not be a free zone for illegal immigrants or a paradise for criminals

For us Sweden Democrats, it is quite simple.

If what Sweden offers does not fit, then all you have to do is pack your bag and go home.

Crowd cheers

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Shots of young ppl in in bar

Despite public perception as a right-wing party, recent data show that the Sweden Democrats are stealing young voters from the country’s  progressive and ruling parties.

76.   

Dana at table with youngsters

Dana’s parents came from Iraq. She grew up in the vulnerable area of Malmo

77.   

Dana

When I was growing up, there was a lot of shooting, there was more rape. I never felt safe going out, especially as a woman and especially as a middle Eastern woman,

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Evan

Why have you joined the Sweden Democrats?

Dana

Because I was sick and tired of not being able to go outside, being afraid of people from my own home countries. I was actually afraid for my own life,

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Emil Joined the Sweden Democrats after being robbed in his hometown – a small village in rural Sweden.

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Evan

What is the link between the crime, though, and immigration?

Emil

Well, there are many links. One of them is, for example, we see increased segregation in Sweden. We have areas in Sweden where people barely speak Swedish at all. People feel no loyalty to the majority of society. They don't feel loyalty to the Swedish state, Swedish [inaudible 10:32:43]. And I think a lot of people, or some people in those areas, also feel disrespect towards Swedish people.

Evan:
One thing is, of course, Sweden Democrats says they should be curbing immigration almost completely.

Emil:
Yeah.

Evan:
Do you agree with that?

Emil

Yeah. We need net zero immigration in Sweden.

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Evan to Isobella

Evan:
Do you agree with the policy of almost zero immigration?

Isobella:
Right now yes, because we need to integrate the people that came to Sweden first, before we can take in anyone else. I really believe that a small immigration can be positive for our country. It can help us build the country and take the country forward. But right now that will not happen if we continue to take in immigrants.

82.   

In the race for votes Sweden’s major parties are now starting to talk along the same lines.

With progressive Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson recently stating that Sweden has failed to integrate the vast number of immigrants it’s received in past two decades.

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LISA PELLING

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SEQEUNCE LISA

WS Evan and Lisa

13:21:08:10

13:19:40:07

13:20:23:13

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Walks in from outside

But not everyone agrees that immigration is the cause of Sweden’s gun crime epidemic

Upsot

LISA:  think people are upset about it happening.

Lisa Pelling is an academic who’s studied the integration of immigrant communities

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Lisa Pelling

The Sweden Democrat scapegoat is always to blame everything on immigration. And it is true that the likelihood of committing a crime is higher if you have immigrated to Sweden, or if you have immigrant background, it is true. But the likelihood of committing a crime is much, much higher if you are a school dropout, or if your parents have received social benefits. So it's really a question of social segregation. It's a question of socially disadvantaged areas

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Lisa believes education is the key to integration -  and it’s a place where successive governments have failed.

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Lisa Pelling:
So we have a tremendously large and increasing dropout rate, around 17,000 young kids every year, around 17% would leave the compulsory school and at 16, in an advanced economy like Sweden, there are no jobs for 16 year old’s without a formal education. So these kids would feel that their prospects, their futures, there are a lot of doors closing on them. And of course not everyone, but many are then attracted by the option of joining a criminal gang.

88.   

Ardavan?

 One fifth of the Swedish population is from a migrant background like Ardavan.

As a criminologist and doctor, he says the problem is Sweden is failing it’s immigrant communities

89.   

ALTS

Ardavan:
The main question is if you stop immigration, will the shooting stop? Well, perhaps not because those who are doing the shootings today are mostly individuals that was a child when they came to Sweden or have been born in this country. If a child is grown up in Sweden with Swedish values in Swedish schools and still have not these values, for example, and not even can talk Swedish properly, then that's a problem of the society which must be faced.

**breath***

a.       

MIKE CRIME PHOTOGRAHPER

90.   

Cars driving past

09:39:52:05

SFX: Night ambiance

While Sweden edges towards the right

and grapples for solutions

the violence continues… 

91.   

Car parked on side of road

12:09:44:19

SFX PING

Photographer Mike has just heard of another gruesome crime.

92.   

Mike:
oh, so we just got something here. Oh, it's actually a tip. There's someone saying that they heard gunshots in Vestoross.

Evan:
Okay. Where's that?

Mike:
It's it's a bit far away. It's an hour drive,

93.   

Car driving through shot

09:38:18:11

Mike:
And they're saying that the police is there and they've also heard the police chopper in the air. So we're gonna go there and check out what's happening

94.   

JUMPS CUTS ARE FINE HERE

Mike and Evan get out of car

11:46:04:13

Mike: a guy has been shot according to my information.

Mike: This is called Hammerby, there’s been a couple of shootings in this area previously, like 2 months a guy behind that house was shot

Mike: that’s all the evidence, could be shell casings, blood traces

95.   

Mike and Evan walking up to shooting site

As the police leave – just a small sign of the night’s drama remains.

96.   

Shot of Blood

Mike: Oh yeah there’s blood there.. that’s where they found him… doe that look like a bullet hole over there?

Evan: did you hear what happened to the guy? Was he killed or injured?

Mike: he was injured, I don’t know how serious the injuries are, but I’ve heard he’s injured and taken to the hospital.

97.   

Evan and Mike IV at crime scene

Cut away 12:08:03:18

Evan:
Do you think Sweden as a society is starting to understand the scale of this problem?

Mike:
Yeah. Yeah. I think they do. They're starting, people are starting to understand what's happening around them and how the violence actually is increasing in society.

Mike:
10 years back, you didn't see this happening. Maybe it happened once, maybe twice every year, but now it's happening now, now that this is the rule.

98.   

Ev and Mike walking away

And with no sign of slowing, it’s uncertain if a change in government will actually stop the bloodshed.