At least 10 dead in Swedish school shooting

[Demovictory9]

https://www.the-sun.com/news/13450271/school-shooter-panic-automatic-weapon-sweden-lockdown-hospitalised/

Police announced at a press conference "some 10 people" were killed with the numbers of injured in the horror attack still unclear.

They are now working to identify the victims and inform their families.

The deadly shooting caused such extensive damage that investigators are struggling to confirm an exact death toll, Police chief Roberto Eid Forest said.

Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson described it as the "worst mass shooting in Swedish history2.

[senseandsensibility]

1. OMG

Horrible.

[Demovictory9]

2. More: Multiple people killed in 'worst mass shooting in Swedish history,' authorities say

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/europe/orebro-sweden-school-shooting-intl/index.html

Police said “around 10 people” were killed at a school on Tuesday, in what has been described as the worst mass shooting in Sweden’s history. The suspected perpetrator is among the dead.

A large number of people were injured after a gunman opened fire at a campus in the city of Örebro in central Sweden, according to Roberto Eid Forest, the head of the city’s police district.

Speaking at a press conference late Tuesday, Forest explained that police were not able to report the exact death toll as the investigation was in its early stages.

Police said that the perpetrator was not known to them before the shooting and that he was not connected to any gangs. They also said they did not believe the motive was terror related. Police did not say what type of weapon was used by the gunman.

“We think he is a lone perpetrator,” Forest said. He added that the shooting was “extremely tragic, with many involved.”

[maxsolomon]

3. The American male brain disease is spreading.

I hope the murderer killed himself.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. It says he's dead,

but they didn't say if it was self inflicted or through police action.
We'll find out soon enough.

[H2O Man]

8. I hope he is okay.

[OnlinePoker]

5. I hate that people make out that this is solely an American phnomenon

If you sort this list by date (this is just massacres of 3 or more) it's been a global problem for over a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_massacres_by_death_toll

[maxsolomon]

7. We have the most guns. Our 2nd Amendment is an antiquated suicide pact.

It's not just school shootings; we have the most mass shootings.

I'm sorry you hate my comment.

[H2O Man]

10. I think it is

accurate to say the US is the most closely associated with mass shootings. That fact should be the source of "hate," not that anyone accurately points it out.

[Emile]

6. Right-wing extremists in Sweden too?

[bluesbassman]

11. They're everywhere unfortunately.

It’s a global phenomenon now.

[Celerity]

12. The vast majority of shootings (and bombings) here (not in this case AFAIK) are now perpetrated by immigrant gangs

We are in the middle of a huge (for us) string of gang bombings, more than 30 just in January 2025, many of them here in Stockholm.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219971993

What's behind the latest spate of bombings in Sweden?

The police are calling it an 'escalation of violence', Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson a 'national crisis', and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has admitted that the government is not in control. But why has Sweden seen a record number of bombings in January?

https://www.thelocal.se/20250131/whats-behind-the-latest-spate-of-bombings-in-sweden

https://archive.ph/FeJsG


Police at the site of an explosion in Nacka on January 26th. Photo: Oscar Olsson/TT

Sweden has seen more than 30 bombings in the month of January – an average of more than one per day. Although the majority of them have taken place in southern Stockholm, cases have also been reported in other parts of the country. But what’s behind them?

'Clear' connection to gangs

Deputy police chief for Stockholm Tobias Bergkvist told a press conference at the end of January that the connection to gangs is “very clear”. “All of these crimes are committed in that context,” he added. He was joined at the press conference by Hampus Nygårds, the deputy head of the police’s National Operative Department Noa. “What we’re seeing now is an escalation of violence, but also the problem is changing,” he said. “The majority of the explosions we’ve seen in December and January have an economic motive, they’re strategic acts aimed at companies, often used as blackmail or extortion.”

The Local spoke to Manne Gerell, associate professor of criminology at Malmö University, who explained that there are usually two deciding factors in the number of bomb attacks. “One is the amount of conflicts and the intensity of conflicts in the criminal environment, and the second is the extent to which the actors involved in those conflicts have access to or knowledge of using bombs as a tool,” he said. “Those things fluctuate, some criminal networks or actors are more used to using explosives than others, and some conflicts are more violent than others. And both those factors can be partial explanations now.”

Gerell echoed Nygårds’ statement that the nature of the problem has changed. “It’s not really a conflict within a criminal environment, but rather an example of extortion against businesses.” The aim of these attacks is often to pressure a business owner into paying up in order to stop the threats against them.

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[elocs]

9. Yes, it is the worst mass shooting in Swedish history until it isn't.

Perhaps because mass shootings are rare there they are complacent about their possibility. The mass shooting genie is out of the bottle now...everywhere.