What’s going on with gun crime in Sweden?

The World

Sweden might make you think of lush green Scandinavian forests, the supergroup ABBA, or maybe IKEA. But probably not gang violence and gun crime. A new report by Sweden’s National Council for Crime Prevention paints a grim picture. In less than a decade, rates of gun violence in Sweden have gone from one of the lowest in Europe to one of the highest. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry finds out why.

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