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World News | Sun Feb 19, 2017 | 4:24pm EST
Highlight. Swedish news sources made no mention of a recent terrorism attack or other high-profile crime in the country.
"Nothing spectacular happened in Sweden on Friday," wrote the Local, an English-language website in Sweden.
Fox News, a U.S. cable news channel that has sometimes been cited favorably by Trump, ran a report on Friday night about alleged migrant-related crime problems in the country.
Sweden's crime rate has fallen since 2005, official statistics show, even as the country has taken in hundreds of thousands of immigrants from war-torn countries like Syria and Iraq.
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom appeared to respond to Trump's latest statement by posting on Twitter an excerpt of a recent speech in which she said democracy and diplomacy "require us to respect science, facts and the media."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-sweden-idUSKBN15Y0QH
Squinch
(50,989 posts)have let in so many refugees.
My hairdresser was insisting this was the case the last time I was in the chair. I told her I had recently spent a good deal of time in Sweden and saw nothing of the sort. She absolutely would not believe my eyewitness account.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)his base, believe me never the media. Bannon and Trump, two liars with dangerous ideas.
Ezior
(505 posts)Chicago homicides 2016: 746
Germany homicides 2015: 589 (sorry, can't find numbers for 2016 yet could be a little bit higher since we have more inhabitants now, and one of them killed 12, but I guess it's still less than 746)
http://www.dw.com/en/germany-has-become-safer/a-19444826
Thanks to our social security system. And maybe gun laws.
Remember that Germany has ~30x the number of inhabitants compared to Chicago.