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Swedish inquiry recommends total ban on international adoptions

Published 3 June 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Government investigator Anna Singer notes that there have been extensive irregularities in international adoptions to Sweden
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Swedish government investigator Anna Singer is proposing a total ban on international adoptions to Sweden, following a government inquiry that found widespread abuses in the system.

The inquiry was launched after Bonnier-owned newspaper Dagens Nyheter revealed that children had been stolen from their biological parents to be adopted in Sweden. The investigation showed that both illegal adoptions and unethical practices had been going on for several decades and that Swedish actors in some cases were aware of the problems when they occurred.

– There have been irregularities in international adoptions to Sweden, Singer said at a press conference this week.

She emphasizes that the practice has not been able to guarantee the best interests of the child, and that the risks today are unacceptable given society’s increased focus on children’s rights.

– International adoption is not a sustainable solution for protecting children as a group, she added.

“Naturally a failure”

The inquiry’s proposals include an official apology from the state to those affected, a national resource center for adoptees, and a travel allowance of SEK 15,000 (€1,400). It also proposes a gradual phasing out of adoption services and increased support for adoptees and their families.

Social Services Minister Camilla Waltersson Grönvall (M) describes the situation as a failure and says that the government now has “even greater clarity that children and parents have suffered and been harmed for decades within the framework of international adoption”.

– These revelations, both past and present, are naturally a failure.

– If adoptions are to continue in Sweden, it must also be possible to guarantee security and legal certainty in this area, she continued.

The government will now send the report for consultation to gather views from relevant authorities and organizations.

Adoptionscentrum opposes total ban

At the same time, Adoptionscentrum, Sweden’s largest adoption agency, has criticized the proposal for a total ban.

– If the alternative for a child is to grow up in an institution, I think that growing up in a safe family in another country could be in the best interests of the individual child, said Vice Chair Margret Josefsson in an interview with Swedish public television SVT’s Morgonstudion.

The investigation emphasizes that irregularities have been going on for a long time and that major changes are urgently needed to protect children’s rights.

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Female paramedic killed in stabbing in Sweden

Deteriorating safety

Published 21 September 2025
– By Editorial Staff
The suspected murderer is arrested by tactical police units.
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A female paramedic has died following a knife attack in Harmånger in Nordanstig municipality, Sweden, on Saturday. A 25-year-old man has been detained on suspicion of murder.

Police received an emergency call at 11:30 AM about an assault in a residential apartment complex area.

— We were told that an ambulance worker had been injured by a sharp object that a man at the scene had, says Maria Hall, police press spokesperson for the central region.

The woman was taken to hospital but her life could not be saved. A neighbor who knows the suspect recounts:

— My little 12-year-old daughter, who was out with the dog, saw how the ambulance woman came out bleeding. I know the guy who did this. As we understand it, he himself called for an ambulance because he was in such bad condition.

According to the neighbor, several people witnessed the attack.

— There were several witnesses standing outside the entrance when the injured woman ran out. She threw herself out of the apartment after he had stabbed her. The guy stood with two knives in his hands. People screamed at him and then he went back into the apartment again. He is dangerous. That’s well known.

Residents had to stay indoors

The area was cordoned off and residents were advised to stay indoors. Sweden’s National Task Force arrived at 2:30 PM. A female neighbor heard screams from the stairwell and then saw the paramedic on the ground.

— Someone else performed CPR. She kept going for a very long time, she tells Bonnier newspaper Expressen, and explains that she was forced to stay inside for two hours.

— The police called me and said I wasn’t allowed to go out into the stairwell, because I was safer inside.

Two hours after the emergency call, the man was arrested and later detained on probable cause suspected of murder.

Ambulance union: Murder could have been prevented

Henrik Johansson, union secretary at the Swedish Ambulance Union, believes the death could have been prevented with better information sharing between police and healthcare services.

— For many years we have lacked the possibility of flagging, that is, information exchange between police and emergency dispatch, where one could otherwise find out if the person appears in crime and suspect registers – if the person has repeatedly threatened ambulance and rescue personnel, he says to Schibsteds-owned TV4.

— It gets red-flagged. A textbook case of someone who should not have received an ambulance. So it would have made a real difference in this case.

The union has been pushing this issue for 20 years without success.

— We have been so frustrated about this – and we have really been nagging. We have participated in the blue light investigation. We have written articles about it. We bring it up almost daily in various forums. But the employer remains silent.

“A tragedy”

Sineva Ribeiro, chairperson of the Swedish Association of Health Professionals, agrees with the criticism.

— Here the employer has a great responsibility to never accept threats and violence against healthcare personnel.

Region Gävleborg (the regional healthcare authority) has activated crisis support for colleagues.

— It is a tragedy. It is a terrible incident. There are upset emotions and we are now taking care of staff and relatives, says Susanna Björklund, deputy director of health and medical services.

Swedish MP reported for hate crime after calling genocide-critical Jews “beasts”

Published 19 September 2025
– By Editorial Staff
The Moderates have promised to crack down hard on what they describe as antisemitism. How Karlsson's political future is affected by his comments remains to be seen.
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Swedish Moderate Party MP and group leader Mattias Karlsson became furious when members of a Jewish leftist organization protested against an Israeli soldier being invited to lecture at the same address where a Jewish independent school is also located.

Karlsson called the demonstrators “beasts” who spread “antisemitism in its purest form” – and therefore he has now himself been reported for incitement against an ethnic group.

“This is not about Israel. This is not about politics. This is about standing outside a Jewish school, when children are going home, with banners that blame their identity. This is everyday terror. This is antisemitism in its purest form. Those who do this are not activists, they are beasts”, Karlsson wrote on X on Monday while sharing an image from the protest.

People with deeper knowledge than the Swedish Moderate politician quickly explained that the protest was not directed at any schoolchildren but at a lecture by a genocide-accused IDF soldier held at the same address, and that it was rather those who invited the soldier who should be blamed.

However, Karlsson did not respond to this criticism and left his post up, which was also shared by Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) and other Swedish top politicians.

Calling Jews “beasts” is extremely controversial, and according to several observers is probably also criminal. For this reason, the Moderate Party group leader has now been reported to police for the hate crime of incitement against an ethnic group.

“The legal process must take its course”

“Calling peaceful demonstrators beasts is a classic rhetorical tool to justify oppression and portray political opponents as less worthy”, says Alexandra Esser, from the activist group Jewish Anti-Zionist Alliance, which is behind the report.

“When this is directed at Jews, whose historical vulnerability Karlsson himself often highlights, the action is particularly cynical and dangerous”, she continues.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s government has promised to focus particularly on combating what it describes as antisemitism and crimes directed against Jews, but it is unclear whether Karlsson’s latest statement will affect his future within the party.

To TT, the Moderate Party’s press service writes that “if a report has now been filed, the legal process must naturally take its course. For now, it does not affect Mattias Karlsson’s work in the Riksdag”.

Only 1 in 80 Swedish special shelters meets modern standards

The new cold war

Published 17 September 2025
– By Editorial Staff
The Igeldamm Garage in Stockholm, Sweden is the only major shelter in Sweden that meets modern standards.
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Swedish authorities have intensified their messages in recent years about citizens needing to prepare for crises and war. Meanwhile, an investigation of the country’s own shelters reveals major shortcomings in the maintenance of critical infrastructure.

Of Sweden’s eighty special shelters – intended for nearly 100,000 people – only a single facility has been upgraded to modern standards after decades of neglected maintenance.

The Igeldamms garage in Stockholm, Sweden stands today as the sole example of a completed special shelter, while the remaining 79 facilities still await necessary upgrades, reports Swedish public television SVT.

The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) has begun modernization work in approximately thirty of the eighty special shelters. The work has cost €7.7 million in the past year alone, but the pace is said to be far from sufficient to meet political ambitions for improved crisis preparedness.

Henrik Larsson, head of population protection at MSB, cannot provide information on when all facilities will be remediated:

— It depends. We need to get into all facilities and see what condition they’re in. In some facilities, quite extensive renovations may be required, and then it becomes very costly.

— If all facilities are in the same condition as here (Igeldamms garage), then it shouldn’t be any problem to do it before 2030, but I suspect we’ll have some facilities that we’ll need to spend time and significantly more money on, he continues.

64,000 shelters to be inventoried

During the Cold War, thousands of shelters were built around the country, but many have been used for completely different purposes for decades without proper maintenance. Now MSB has been tasked with inventorying the country’s total stock of 64,000 shelters between 2025 and 2030.

For the current year, approximately 10,000 minor inspections and around 2,000 major inspections are planned – a pace that MSB itself considers insufficient:

— We need to increase by 500 more per year to go through the entire stock by 2030. We need to be between 12,000 and 13,000 annually, estimates Larsson.

Inadequate protection

In addition to the already approved Igeldamms garage, with space for 1,200 people, two additional facilities are planned to be completed next year – one in Stockholm and one in Gothenburg, Sweden. This means that only three of eighty special shelters will have modern standards before 2027.

MSB’s assessment shows extensive shortcomings in the existing stock: only half of all shelters offer satisfactory protection against shrapnel and bombs, while only about ten percent have reasonable protection against chemical warfare agents.

Since the responsibility for addressing deficiencies lies with individual property owners, MSB cannot provide any timeframe for when the shelters will actually be in functional condition.

About Swedish shelters

Sweden has over 64,000 shelters with space for approximately seven million people. The shelters may be used for other purposes during peacetime but must be ready for use within two days during heightened alert or war. When a shelter is activated, it must have water, heating, ventilation and toilet facilities – however, there is neither food nor hygiene products.

The shelters are built to protect against shock waves and shrapnel from explosions, fire, chemical weapons and radiation from radioactive substances. People should be able to stay in the shelter without interruption for at least three days. It has never been the ambition to build shelters for the entire population, and their placement has been determined based on threat assessments.

During air raid alerts, people should immediately go to the nearest shelter or other protective space such as basements or subway stations. People do not belong to any specific shelter but use the one that is closest.

Source: MSB (Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency)

Swedish PM: “Don’t bring Middle Eastern conflicts to Swedish streets”

The genocide in Gaza

Published 17 September 2025
– By Editorial Staff
The loud pro-Palestinian protests have become a very troublesome disruptive element for the Kristersson government.
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Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of the Moderate Party presents new measures against demonstrations and says he now wants to remove “Middle Eastern conflicts” from Swedish streets.

Critics note, however, that the Moderate Party has for many years pushed for mass immigration specifically from the Middle East – and continues to do so.

In a post on X, the prime minister writes about how politicians have been confronted outside the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament), ministers have been followed home from work, and Jewish families have been subjected to threats, and now the government promises tougher action.

“Don’t bring Middle Eastern conflicts to Swedish streets and squares. We must take care of the Sweden we love”, the prime minister appeals.

The statement comes from the same party that during Fredrik Reinfeldt’s government from 2006 significantly increased mass immigration to Sweden from the Middle East – a policy that continues today despite all problems and warnings, even though the rhetoric has changed.

In just these two decades, Sweden has received hundreds of thousands of people from various conflict areas in the Middle East, and a large portion of them have today been granted Swedish citizenship.

After Israel’s invasion of Gaza, however, Swedish politicians from the Moderate Party and other liberal parties have shown growing frustration and anger over the vocal protests from many of the immigrants they themselves allowed into the country.

These demonstrators protest almost daily against Israel’s genocide against Palestinians and demand, among other things, that Sweden cease its support for the Israeli state – demands that have become increasingly troublesome for those in power.

“Intrusive” demonstrators may face harsher punishment

Therefore, Kristersson now announces the following measures, among others:

• Review of criminal liability for demonstrators who act “intrusively or aggressively”
• Police given greater opportunity to decide on alternative times and places for demonstrations
• Clearer opportunity for police to intervene if decisions are not followed
• Police must report on how they work against disturbances at gatherings

The government is also reviewing possibilities to deport pro-Palestinian demonstrators who are considered particularly troublesome or who are accused of “glorifying terror” by, for example, expressing sympathies for Hamas or other groups designated as terrorist organizations.

“Whipping up hateful sentiments”

Kristersson writes in his post that “a heavy responsibility also rests on those who, by spreading lies, terror romanticism and antisemitism, polarize and whip up hateful sentiments in Sweden”.

For many, however, it appears ironic that the prime minister now claims to want to stop Middle Eastern conflicts from Swedish streets – conflicts that have largely come to Sweden through policies that his own party has implemented.

Others point out that it is telling that those in power react so strongly and condemningly only when they themselves are affected by disturbances and discomfort, while ordinary Swedes have been affected daily for many years by significantly worse immigration-related incidents without this receiving any attention whatsoever.

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