Six young people were injured in a shooting in central Gävle on the night against Saturday. According to the police, there are people under 18 years among the injured, none of them life-threatening.
A 13-year-old boy has been arrested, suspected in the case.
It is a young person, a child, who is suspected. Already that is dark and shocking, says Gunnar Strömmer to TT.
The motive is still unclear. In his first written statement, the Minister of Justice described the crime as yet another example of "that the violence capital among criminals is still large".
Still no gang connection
But still, there is no information that it may be a gang-related crime.
I cannot draw any such conclusions until the police have gotten to the bottom of what has happened, says Strömmer.
Right now, I am thinking primarily of the victims, their relatives, but also of all in Gävle who wake up to dark headlines and who feel great concern for the violence and what it does to society.
Strömmer adds that the police are working purposefully to clarify what has happened and that the Ministry of Justice is in close contact with the authority.
On the question of whether the government's policy against serious violent crime is working, Strömmer points out that the shootings have decreased in recent years.
At the same time, he describes continued high levels of conflict in the gang-related environment.
Therefore, it is important that this hard work and the change in policy continues so that we can permanently prevent and combat crime. But as I said: What lies behind what happened in this case, we do not know yet.
Andersson: "Shaken by the deed"
May it be necessary with more non-police measures when it comes to preventing more young perpetrators?
Yes, I am convinced that it will require a lot more from our entire society, both on the police and social side, on the education side and other things, says Strömmer.
Even Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (The Moderate Party) expresses, in a comment on social media, his participation with the affected, relatives "and all in Gävle who have woken up to dark headlines and feel concern and fear”.
The leader of the Social Democrats, Magdalena Andersson, writes in a comment on social media that "the whole of Sweden is shaken by the deed in Gävle tonight".
"No Swedish city should have to experience such violence and the insecurity that follows", writes Andersson.
