Sweden might make you think of lush green Scandinavian forests, the supergroup ABBA, or maybe IKEA. But probably not gang violence and gun crime. A new report by Sweden’s National Council for Crime Prevention paints a grim picture. In less than a decade, rates of gun violence in Sweden have gone from one of the lowest in Europe to one of the highest. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry finds out why.
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