Husby centre will be closed in protest against the wave of violence – the Express newspaper

Burglary, vandalism, robbery, shootings.

more and more talking about an Environment in decay.

Now has merchants in Husby centre had enough – and keeping all the shops closed tomorrow afternoon in protest against the crime.

“I know that you have given away a part of Stockholm to the criminals,” says Salam Kurda, chairman of the Husby business association, which itself suffered a break-in Monday morning.

Salam Kurda, 60, has pushed livsmedelbutik in 30 years in Husby, north of Stockholm. Monday morning was his shop broken and crushed to pieces. The thieves had driven straight into the shop and then emptied his safe.

It took an hour and a half for the police to come, ” he says and gets quiet.

“the Police and the politicians should be ashamed”

As chairman of the Husby business association with approximately 25 member companies, he has warned the police, politicians and Swedish housing, which owns the Husby center, how the crime escalated in recent years.

” We have been talking about it this must be changed. It is tiresome. What has happened is so big that you leave a society to the criminals, who can move how they want. Society has no protection for us.

In the morning, keeping traders in Husby the city centre closed between the hours of 13 and 18 as a protest against the recent robbery and burglary.

– the Police and the politicians should be ashamed. We want more police officers. This is not a priority area. It is a shame. What do they do? What is it that happens? say Salam Kurda.

One of the most vulnerable areas

the Järva district of stockholm – Rinkeby, Tensta, Hjulsta, Kista, Husby, Akalla and a part of the old saint-petersburg – is one of the most vulnerable areas in the Stockholm county. In a police report describes how the areas of unemployment, ethnic segregation, stigmatisation and overcrowding is beyond the police’s control, and how groups of young people with an immigrant background to feel marginalised.

the Area was in last year for 40 per cent of the lethal violence in Stockholm, according to Swedish television, and for 10 per cent of the lethal violence in Sweden, according to the Heart of Stockholm. Then in the last year has been closer to 20 murders occurred that can be linked to the Bold. Either they have been committed in the area, or perpetrators or victims, or link there.

” So many resources we have in the area now, we have never had before. You might think that we should have done more before, but this has not changed over a night. There has been over time and finally has come to a point when you realized that it is very, very, very serious, said Niclas Andersson, lokalpolisområdeschef in Järva, recently, to Expressen.

the Conservatives want more action

After the unrest, to the moderate party in Stockholm city fast on a new police station in Rinkeby, to facilitate video surveillance, set up jourdomstolar in the area, employing local stewards and get more police officers who are dedicated from other tasks.

” We do not have a clear political voice from the Stockholm vis-à-vis the government to expand the säkerhetsinsatserna. Law and order must apply to all regardless of place of residence. We need faster prosecution of young offenders, efforts that break the open drug dealing every day and video surveillance, ” says Anna König Jerlmyr (M), oppositionsborgarråd in the city of Stockholm.

the Centre party Annie Lööf react strongly.

– the Centre party has proposed billions for more police, tougher punishment, and special emphasis on the particularly vulnerable areas. The government need to take hold of this substantial problem in these vulnerable areas and establish a kriskommission which brings together the municipalities, the police and the government, ” she says on Instagram.

the Majority bet 19 million additional

The rödgrönrosa majority in Stockholm city has promised 19 million extra to the Järva district of stockholm. Nine million goes to the social action team for young adults who want to jump of his criminal orbit, and ten million to a öppenvårdsenhet for young people at risk of drug addiction or crime.

” of Course should the police get all the resources that are available. Many of the Conservatives proposals are solely state issues. What the municipality can do is to develop preventive interventions for young people so that they do not end up in crime and drug addiction. When it happens we’ll be there as a support, ” says Karin Wanngård (S), mayor of the city of Stockholm.