Sweden’s justice minister has warned that stamping out the country’s violent crime epidemic will take a decade or more, with immigrant drug gangs infiltrating courts, the police and prisons.
Criminologists have said the problems behind the crime wave, which has included grenade and bomb attacks, are so deep-rooted that it will take at least a decade to ensure that children of kindergarten age today do not commit crimes when they become teenagers.
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Source: The Irish Times
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