DOMESTIC. There is a very sharp increase in the robbery of young people in Sweden. It shows figures from the Crime Prevention Council, BRÅ, according to SVT.
The number of robberies against children in the second quarter of this year has reached a new "record listing", as SVT puts it.
637 robberies were reported against young people under 18 - more than ever. During the same period 2017, the corresponding figure was 358. 2018 was 505.
If you go back to 2015, the number of registrations throughout the year was 1,084. Last year the figure was 1,896, an increase of around 75 percent.
But only during the first six months of this year that 1,247 applications were made, ie more than the whole of 2015. Keeping the trend in mind, this year's figure ends at around 2,500 robberies of children.
In June , the police in Växjö said that the perpetrators are "second generation immigrants". The police also called for immigrants during the robbery in Nacka . However, nothing about immigration does not mention SVT.
- It may be a matter of a transfer from robbery to the elderly and to stores where cash was previously available. It has become more difficult and then you join a group that cannot protect themselves as well. They also have what other young people want to access, like mopeds, telephones and jewelry, says Sven Granath, a criminologist at the police, to SVT. source www.friatider.se/sverige-sl-r-rekord-i-antal-barn-som-r-nas