Swedish rapper Einar shot dead at 19, stoking outrage over gang violence
Einar, 19, whose real name was Nils Gronberg, was killed in the upmarket Stockholm suburb of Hammarby Sjostad, and no arrests had been made so far. In a previous incident last year, Einar was abducted and assaulted by rival rappers.
"A young life has been extinguished, and I understand that he meant a lot to many young people. It is tragic," Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told TT, Sweden's national news agency.
Gronberg, who made his debut at 16, issued four albums, had tens of millions of streams on music platforms and won several Swedish Grammys and other awards.
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Sweden has suffered gang-violence for years and gone from having one of the lowest rates of gun crime in Europe to having one of the highest over the past two decades.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/europe/swedish-rapper-einar-dead-scli-intl/index.html
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One of my fellow post grad students here in Stockholm is the niece of the best friend of the bloke from the article below who was blown up by a hand grenade. Her uncle and the victim both fled Chile, her uncle in the early '70's, when the US CIA helped overthrow and murder Salvador Allende, after which his family started being killed as they contained multiple higher level Allende supporters. We have so many Chileans here that when the Chile men's nation football (soccer) team came here to play Sweden the stadium was 3/4ers Chilean, tens of thousands of them.
Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/world/europe/sweden-crime-immigration-hand-grenades.html
The Stockholm suburb of Varby Gard has produced a street gang, the Varby Gard Network, which police have been monitoring for two years. Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
STOCKHOLM — In the Stockholm suburb of Varby Gard, it was not unusual to see the figure of a 63-year-old man pedaling a bicycle home after the end of his shift as an aide for disabled adults, hunched against the icy wind of a Swedish winter. Daniel Cuevas Zuniga had just finished a night shift on a Sunday last month, and was cycling home with his wife, when he spotted a spherical object lying on the ground, stopped and reached down to take it in his hand.
It was an M-75 hand grenade. Manufactured in great numbers for the Yugoslav national army, and then seized by paramilitaries during the civil war in the 1990s, the grenades are packed with plastic explosives and 3,000 steel balls, well suited for attacks on enemy trenches and bunkers. When Mr. Zuniga touched it, he set off the detonator. The shock wave was so powerful that Mr. Zuniga’s wife, Wanna, riding ahead of him, was blown off her bicycle and sprawled on the ground, mottled with shrapnel wounds. She turned and tried to crawl toward her husband, she told a reporter later, but the police, who had been patrolling nearby, kept her back.
Weapons from a faraway, long-ago war are flowing into immigrant neighborhoods here, puncturing Swedes’ sense of confidence and security. The country’s murder rate remains low, by American standards, and violent crime is stable or dropping in many places. But gang-related assaults and shootings are becoming more frequent, and the number of neighborhoods categorized by the police as “marred by crime, social unrest and insecurity” is rising. Crime and immigration are certain to be key issues in September’s general election, alongside the traditional debates over education and health care.
Part of the reason is that Sweden’s gang violence, long contained within low-income suburbs, has begun to spill out. In large cities, hospitals report armed confrontations in emergency rooms, and school administrators say threats and weapons have become commonplace. Last week two men from Uppsala, both in their 20s, were arrested on charges of throwing grenades at the home of a bank employee who investigates fraud cases. An earlier jolt came with the death of Mr. Zuniga, who on Jan. 7 picked up the grenade, which the police believe had been thrown by members of a local gang targeting a rival gang or police officers.
The spot where Mr. Zuniga was killed by a grenade. Credit Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
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where Einar (the rapper) was shot and killed (Hammarby Sjöstad) is fairly close to where we live (Södermalm)
Hammarby Sjöstad (it is a redeveloped industrial area)
