Göran Adamson, a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Uppsala University, told Express.co.uk that his country is becoming a “capital of violence” in the aftermath of suspected criminals migrating there. In a 2020 paper, Adamson showed links between surging crime and migration, which is “reshaping [Swedish] society.” Adamson said in the document that due to migration, the murder rate in Sweden has quadrupled. He added that 58 percent of crime suspects are migrants, and that 73 percent of murder and manslaughter suspects are migrants. “Even though most migrants are law-abiding people… still the likelihood of a migrant - especially from the Middle East or Africa, especially below 50 years of age - committing a crime is much, much higher than for a Swedish person,” the 60-year-old professor told Express. “These are just the facts.” Sweden, which has a population of roughly 10.5 million people, has the highest per capita number of deadly shootings out of all European countries. Between 2018 and 2022, there were nearly 500 bombings. Adamson said that Sweden is now close to “civil war” as migrant violence continues to escalate throughout the country. He added that most of the violence isn’t found in city centers, but in residential neighborhoods. “It’s terrifying. You can barely believe it," he said. “That has mainly to do with the suburbs of Stockholm because some of these suburbs are extremely violent and so forth. So things are getting worse.” From 2012 to 2019, Sweden resettled nearly 130,000 migrants per year before the country curbed immigration in 2020. Sweden took in more people per capita than any other European Union country. Former Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has attributed the rise in violence to her country’s failure to integrate foreign-born residents. "Integration has been too poor at the same time as we have had a large immigration. Society has been too weak, resources for the police and social services have been too weak," she said during a 2022 press conference. The number of people in Sweden who born elsewhere now totals a fifth of the population.Sweden is now facing an elevated risk of all-out civil war over soaring crime and the negative impact that lax immigration policies have had, according to a sociologist.
