Swedish Prime Minister: mass stabbing by a Muslim Afghan migrant "not a migration issue"

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At a press conference following the mass stabbing attack by an Afghan migrant in Vetlanda, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven claimed the incident was not a migration issue.

Prime Minister Löfven made his remarks in response to a tweet from the populist Sweden Democrats, who said that the government should enforce a ban on migration that creates a social, economic, or cultural burden on the country.

"This is not a migration issue that the Sweden Democrats want to make it. Now we have a very serious incident in Vetlanda. Where innocent people are hurt, where their relatives are deeply worried", Lofven told the media Nyheter Idag reports.

For years, Prime Minister Löfven has repeatedly denied any link between gang violence and mass migration.

In 2019, he blamed gang violence on other problems like unemployment, saying: " But that would have been the same regardless of who had lived there. If you put people born in Sweden under the same conditions, you get the same result".

In September of last year, however, Löfven seemed to make a U-turn on his previous statements after admitting that there was some connection between migration and rising violent crime levels in Sweden.

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Swedish Prime Minister: mass stabbing by a Muslim Afghan migrant "not a migration issue"

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