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Dark-skinned Swedes live in fear of racist gunman
A racist gunman has shot eight men and killed one woman in the past year
After the shooting of a black man waiting at a bus stop in the city of Malmo on Tuesday, Swedish police have been forced to issue a stark warning to all black or dark-skinned residents: they could be at risk from an apparently racist killer.
The 28-year-old shot this week has survived the shooting - the bullet just missed his spine. He is one of eight men who have been shot over the past year, ever since a young couple were targeted last October.
A 20-year-old white Swedish girl called Trez West Persson was sitting in a car in Malmo with a male friend from an ethnic minority when they were shot at by a stranger. Persson was killed and her friend survived.
It was only after the shootings continued that a pattern began to become clear.
"If you have dark skin you should be extra cautious," Lars-Haakan Lindholm, a police spokesman, said this week. "If you are in the risk group - that is, being coloured - then you should avoid lonely places like bus stops at night."
A special task force has now been set up in an effort to find the would-be killer.
Malmo is home to 300,000 people, many of them from ethnic minorities, and has long been plagued by racial violence.
Tensions have heightened since the ultra-nationalist Sverigedemokraternas - Sweden Democrat - party won its first seats in parliament in September after campaigning to halt immigration.
The spate of shootings in Malmo has inevitably brought comparisons with the notorious 1991-92 case of the Laser Man - so-called because the last thing his victims saw before they were shot was the red dot of a laser sight bobbing across their chests.
The Laser Man shot an Eritrean in 1991 and followed that up with 10 more shootings in Stockholm and Uppsala. Almost all the victims were immigrants.
John Ausonius was eventually identified as the shooter and, having killed one of his targets, was jailed for life in 1994.
Just as it is now, immigration in Sweden was a big talking point at the time. Ausonius is said to have felt he had the "moral support from the people" for his actions.
Beatrice Ask, the Swedish Minister for Justice, said of the current manhunt in Malmo: "Should it emerge that anti-immigration reasons are behind the shootings, this is very serious. I understand there is a lot of fear." ·
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I'm an immigrant, AND a Swedish Democrat. First of all i would like to say that i don't like that you use the label Ultra National. That is to take the Left Wing extremists label. Sweden democrats is a middle party if you just look at the issues and ideas they propogate. In America for example, i think they would be consiederd semi communist.
Secondly. Malmö in Sweden is a city in much problem. Half of the cities jews have fled muslim persecution, threats and violence, and the statemens and medias denial and cover up of it all. The antisemitism in Malmö is predominantly a left wing and mostly muslim thing.
For such a small city by your standards, we've seen 50! shootings in the street this last year. Immigrants have even been fireing on local buses, to the horror of the commuters. There have been multiple immigrant riots, school burnings, car burnings to the cry "Allahu Akbar" and the police and firemen have been assaulted with stones.
You speak about racial violence and make it sound as the swedes are usually the perpretators, when in fact the truth is the opposite. Rapes, crimes, and robberys have sky rocketed by muslims and arabs, who describe that they are "waging war against the swedes", and "feel so happy when swedes lie on the ground and kiss their feet".
Swedes are already a minority in their own city, and most swedes (as for the jews) who flee or leave Malmö cite the mass immigration of muslims as the cause.
No debate is allowed on this matter. I mean it NO DEBATE. 1 of 4 Malmö residents don't want to go out in their own neighbourhood when its dark outside. Their sons get mugged and daughters raped. And no debate is allowed, they are not allowed to voice their concerns, speak their mind or to critizie the goal of replacing the swedish population in Malmö.
These are the causes to why their is a new Laser Man in Malmö, not the rize of the Sweden Democrats. If it was the "right wing winds" of Europes fault, then their would be a Laserman across the bridge in Copenhagen, but their is none. Just because there it is allowed to debate these issues, their the politicians and media voice the concerns of the danes. There they don't repress the danes and ignore their situation.
Could there here a lesson, and an inkling of what is to come in Germany, now that Angela Merkel has admitted to the world that multiculturalism has "utterly failed"? The French like you to learn to speak French if you decide to live there...not too surprising you might think. But of course multiculturalism, which is a form of apartheid, tells the immigrants (English types too) that they do not need to learn the lingo...Johnny Foreigner will understand if you just speak a little louder and slower...tiens