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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Overseas Ministry stated officers summoned the Iraqi chargé d’affaires Friday to protest towards demise sentences handed all the way down to Swedes in Iraq.
Swedish media reported in latest days that two Swedes have been sentenced to demise in Iraq after being convicted of killing a member of felony gang there. On Friday, Sweden’s information company TT cited the international ministry in Stockholm’s affirmation that no less than one individual with a Swedish passport has obtained a demise sentence.
“We condemn using the demise penalty. We oppose it at all times, in every single place and whatever the circumstances,” Sweden’s Overseas Minister Tobias Billström stated in an announcement.
He stated officers conveyed Sweden’s protests on the assembly and demanded that the sentences not be enforced.
TT reported that one other two Swedes have been detained for alleged involvement within the homicide of a felony in Iraq.
The killing earlier this yr is believed to be linked to an inner gang warfare between two Swedish teams that has resulted in quite a few killings and tried murders, some occurring outdoors Sweden. The Foxtrot community and its rival, Rumba, have for years been concerned in lethal feuds.
Sweden has grappled with gang violence for years and felony gangs usually recruit youngsters in socially deprived immigrant neighborhoods to hold out hits. Swedish police recorded 109 shootings to this point this yr, together with 14 deadly shootings. Final yr, 53 folks had been killed and 109 had been wounded in a complete of 363 shootings.
