Sweden has seen a surge in shootings and bombings committed by gangs over the last year, which has spilled over the border into Denmark and Norway.
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00:00Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has met with his Danish counterpart to discuss
00:06the ways in which their two countries can combat rising gang crime and violence.
00:12Sweden has seen a surge in shootings and bombings committed by gangs over the last year, violence
00:19which has spilled over the border into Denmark and Norway.
00:24Officials say many of these Swedish gangs recruit teenagers from disadvantaged immigrant
00:28neighbourhoods.
00:29There is unfortunately a very close connection between foreign policy and crime today, because
00:35when we look at organized crime, when we look at violence, when we look at narco, then there
00:41is an overrepresentation in Denmark and Sweden, especially with young men with non-Western
00:48backgrounds, and that is unbearable.
00:51In August this year, Denmark announced it was tightening its border controls with Sweden
00:56to combat the threat from gangs, while cross-border crime between the two nations has also led
01:02to Danish police working in Sweden and vice versa.