The New Normal - Swedish Police under fire
FILE PHOTO © Johan Nilsson / Reuters
A loud bang has been heard at the police station in the Swedish city of Malmo. The explosion was caused by a hand grenade, according to news reports.
"The place is locked off and the bombing group is on its way," police spokeswoman Anna Goransson was quoted as saying by Aftonbladet.
The alleged attack happened shortly after 9pm local time in the courtyard of the police station. "Fortunately, no people have been injured, but cars, I cannot say how many, have been damaged," Goransson told reporters.
Authorities have yet to confirm what caused the explosion, but local media are reporting that a hand grenade was used.
Police have not confirmed any arrests so far, but Aftonbladet's photographer said two people have been taken into custody. The detonation took place just as the two suspects approached the station, according to reports.
Police have been placed on high alert with armed officers deployed to strategic locations around Malmo.
As the investigation gets underway, local media and authorities have sketched possible connections with a recent spate of attacks on police stations in Sweden. On December 29, a police car was destroyed outside a police station in Malmo. In October, a powerful explosion outside the police station in Helsingborg also caused significant material damage.
Following Wednesday night's attack, the Police Association tweeted that "attacks against police must end."
Yeah, I'm sure that will help!
Regional police chief Carina Persson called the attack "completely unacceptable," after visiting the scene of the explosion. "We must continue to work intensively in the fight against the serious crime," she said, vowing to punish the perpetrators.
Earlier, Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said deploying the military to clamp down on organized and violent crime remained an option, local media reported.
While authorities in Malmo have yet to confirm any links to terrorism, Sweden's Security Police (SAPO) warned that "terrorism levels in Sweden remain at an elevated level." The violent Islamist extremism currently represents the most significant threat to Sweden, SAPO's Anders Thornberg said referring to the most recent terror threat evaluation conducted by the National Center for Terrorism Assessment. "Lonely perpetrators" continue to pose the biggest terrorist threat. "The violent extremist environment in Sweden currently comprise about 3000 hot actors," he said. In a society where "radicalization can be done very quickly," perpetrators can evade the security radar, Thornberg noted.
And then there are the many gangs, mainly migrants and Muslim immigrants responsible for the dramatic increase in rapes, gang-rapes, extortions and murders in Sweden. It was in this context that Lofven mentioned the military as a possibility.
But 3000 hot actors???!!! What is being done to cool them down or get rid of them? Are they merely being watched, because Sweden does not have enough police to watch 3000 hot actors, not even close. Are prisons segregating radicalized Muslims from the rest of the population? If not, they are just breeding grounds for Islamic Insanity.
What's the plan here, Stefan?
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