Do not let them into your country

Police chief singles out mass immigration as the cause of the violence
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Sweden's focus on maintaining liberal asylum immigration is the reason why the country stands out so dramatically in a Nordic but also European context regarding shootings and violence. This is the opinion of Norwegian police chief Arne Jørgen Olafsen, who does not want to repeat Sweden's mistakes.

After decades of demand-free and uncontrolled mass immigration, which constantly attracted larger and larger groups of light-shy individuals, Sweden's multicultural record is a battery of profound system-threatening problems with clans that milk the welfare systems and infiltrate authorities and institutions as well as parallel societies with completely incompatible cultures.

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One of the things that the porous borders have brought is the rampant gun violence that is unparalleled in comparable countries. Despite the extreme differences, both politicians and researchers claim not to know what the causes of the development are.

In neighboring countries like Norway - where last year there were four fatal shootings compared to Sweden's 63 - people look at what is happening in Sweden with horror and it is a fate they want to avoid.

Don't repeat Sweden's mistakes
Arne Jørgen Olafsen, formerly at the Norwegian security police and today head of the immigration unit, follows the anxious Swedish debate.

- Of course we also have problems. And problems that Swedes have today may come to Norway ten to fifteen years later. So we learn a lot from Sweden, we don't have to make your mistakes, so to speak, he tells DN .

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At the same time, Olafsen is not afraid to point out the main reason for the situation.

- There is no doubt that Norway has been preoccupied with having sustainable immigration. By that is meant one that society has managed to integrate. And that behaves economically. Sweden has focused more on liberal asylum immigration.

In Norway, there has been a wider diversity in political discussions and it is easier to discuss politically more unpopular themes, he believes.