Swedes have become all too familiar with gun violence. But the shooting of a mother and her child at a playground in central Sweden last week has provided an even more shocking and violent backdrop to the country’s parliamentary elections on September 11.
“It’s getting worse and worse in terms of violent crimes. It worries people,” said Torsten Elofsson, a former Malmö police chief who is now a candidate for the centre-right Christian Democrats.
“It used to be just Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö,” he continued, referring to Sweden’s three big cities. “Now you see it in small towns across Sweden. It’s getting closer and closer to where most people live.”
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