Deport the violent gang criminals | Human Rights Service
For those of us who have passed the midday height, the picture of the new Norway is more than shocking. We simply do not recognize the peaceful and innocent country we grew up in – the time a rape caused national attention with features on the Dagsrevyen. Back when we had territorial local gangs that could bark together – without a knife being used. The time when housewives warned their daughters against unknown men who lured girls with chocolate in the car. We were terrified of these men, without having any idea who they were or what the threat actually was. Nothing but that these men must be some monsters.
Over 100 just in Oslo east
But this was old Norway. It has happened, not least in Oslo, but also in many other places, less about a (negative) cultural revolution.
A man in his 20s of Somali origin shot and killed on Sunday in Greenland in Oslo on Sunday. The murder appears as pure liquidation. On Tuesday last week, a man was found shot in a taxi at IKEA on Furuset. The action appeared as targeted. These are just two of many incidents last year on Oslo’s eastern edge, and they are linked to criminal networks and the drug market. It fights for territorial power. This is exactly how it plays out in Swedish cities where clans and gangs fight daily for control of the drug market.
How are these networks built? Where are they based? What conflicts abound between them? This has VG dived into.
– Most people are linked to visible criminal networks and have a criminal history that largely applies to the sale of drugs and illegal possession of weapons, says Sigve Bolstad to VG.
Bolstad, who is the duty station manager at Manglerud police station, says the police believe over 100 are involved in the conflicts which result in violent clashes with firearms and knives.
But the type of violence has changed somewhat. In particular, the figures for physical violence have increased since the same period last year.
Several of the violent episodes are considered by the police to be clashes between criminal networks and groups.
According to VG, there are currently seven ongoing gang conflicts in east Oslo. The police say that in five of the conflicts the tension level is high or moderate. The conflicts mainly take place in the districts of Stovner, Alna and Søndre Nordstrand.
It’s about cramped housing and poverty – really?
According to VG, the police must believe that these districts are characterized by “child poverty and cramped conditions” – as if that would explain why a Somali in his 20s was subjected to pure liquidation five days ago.
These are also the areas where few for higher education and with greatest density of children and families with three or more children.
I always think of a friend of mine when this argument for violence and crime comes up. She who grew up with mother, father and three siblings. The family of six lived in a small second floor with one bedroom. All the children became well-functioning citizens and taxpayers. The same applies to everyone else I know from childhood who had a hard time both in housing and financially. They became people.
We all know that the criminal gangs primarily consist of people with origins in the Islamic-dominated world, where clan, tribe and extended family are at the center of the individual’s loyalty. VG did not intend to make this a special point:
According to VG’s information, the criminal network at Furuset is in conflict with criminal actors at Haugenstua and in the center of Oslo.
At the same time, the criminal environment in Mortensrud is in conflict with criminal actors in Holmlia. Once these two rival parties were allied in name Young Blood.
Conflict between Mortensrud, Holmlia and the other networks is linked to boats murder and attempted murder.
What VG tells in a short sentence is this:
Most are men with a minority background, born in Norway.
They were between 16 and 46 years old.
– The main body was born between 2001 and 2004, says Bolstad.
The younger groups are in their late teens, the older groups are in their late 30s, and the younger ones look up to the older ones.
The police believe that the older people in the network act as criminal images for the younger people in the community.
– We are very concerned about what we see as a negative criminal development for many young people in the 2004 cohort, says Bolstad.
A «wrong» look in the «wrong» place
The common denominator among the criminal networks is access to firearms and the sale of drugs.
The criminal network at Furuset is involved in several conflicts that the police follow.
About 20 people make up the network and the members are in their late teens to early 20s.
Here, a small proportion of people form the hard core.
The core is closely linked through relationships that have lasted over years. Most of the people in this network have extensive criminal records, such as attempted murder and serious threats.
“Looking at someone in the wrong way” – i.e. “glaring” – is what can trigger serious violence, according to the police – if the “glaring” happens in an area where the person in question does not have the protection of his own network. In other words, pure territorial violence. Especially the younger ones in the network are often involved in cases of violence.
The police have seen changes lately:
– It is often many against one and superiority in numbers or that you are helpless because the other party has weapons, he says.
Gjerlaug has noticed a development.
– Often it is a point that the violence must be degrading and that it is filmed and shared afterwards. It is one of the ugliest things we see, says Gjerlaug.
Recently, several of the settlements have taken place in the public domain. Metro stations, shopping areas or residential areas have been the scene of clashes, and a kindergarten (Furuset) also witnessed an incident of violence on Tuesday last week.
The police believe that bodies such as schools, leisure clubs and other public services in districts and Oslo municipality must together solve problems with the violent criminal gangs. How schools and leisure clubs should be able to counter the criminal gangs, many of whom are past school age, appears to be a lost cause.
The anti-citizens are here to stay
The police themselves have initiated a number of measures such as increased presence, interviews, imprisonment of key actors and weapons inspections, the former soft measures which barely work, the latter which should be possible.
The police in Unit East have also seized 35 firearms and 78 stabbing weapons such as machetes and knives so far this year. A further 15 weapons have also entered other contexts.
– But to create security, we also have to do something about the social factors, says Bolstad.
Again, it is the soft Norwegian eyes that see. The police do not seem to understand that this is about the immigrant Islamic clan culture where violence is a central part of upbringing, and the members cannot develop a sense of belonging to the nation state and the Norwegian community. On the contrary, the children are brought up to refrain from Norwegian. The Norwegian is «haram».
So the families have immigrated Norway, not mentally settled in Norway and the values and culture the country rests on. They have become anti-citizens, not fellow citizens.
But the political leadership has not understood this. Therefore, the tough measures that could have had a particularly good preventive effect are not implemented. Not least, a deportation order would have a colossal preventive effect. This is one initiative Denmark has started, and even a Danish-born Somali was deported to Somalia almost two years ago. Protecting society, “public safety” and “preventing unrest or crime” is paramount, this is what is stated in the sensational ruling from Odense just before Christmas 2020.
In Denmark, you can’t get cola or pizza from the police. It is enough to be in possession of a gun with which it has been shot and you are permanently expelled.