Sweden, once hailed as a beacon of safety and “progressive utopia” of Europe, is now facing a grim and unthinkable reality: its murder rate has climbed higher than that of El Salvador, long infamous for gang violence, and a nation that, until recently, was considered one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
The shocking revelation, confirmed by multiple sources, highlights the catastrophic consequences of decades of open-border, globalist immigration policies championed by Sweden’s out-of-touch left-liberal establishment.
According to data from early 2025, Sweden has reported 32 murders just in the first 110 days of the year. By comparison, El Salvador, after a massive anti-gang crackdown led by President Bukele, has reported only 20. That means Sweden now has over 50% more murders than the former gang warzone.
The Central American country’s dramatic turnaround is largely credited to President Nayib Bukele’s zero-tolerance strategy against gangs like MS-13 and Barrio 18, involving mass arrests and long prison sentences.
Meanwhile, Sweden reels from deadly shootings and bombings carried out by criminal migrant gangs that flourish in the country’s increasingly ‘diverse’ urban enclaves.
The first quarter of 2025 alone saw 19 firearm-related homicides in Sweden, alongside 13 other murders and suspicious deaths under investigation. And that’s just the cases where suspects have been identified or arrested—another 20 unexplained deaths weren’t even included in the official count, suggesting the real numbers could be worse.
In January, Stockholm was rocked by 32 bombings, a brutal indication of how deeply embedded organized criminal networks have become in Swedish society. The violence isn’t isolated either—it’s spreading from no-go zones in major cities to the country’s quieter suburbs and towns.
Tragically, Sweden, once one of the safest and most peaceful countries in the world, is being eaten alive from the inside out by violent criminal networks that globalist politicians have imported under the guise of “compassion” and “diversity.”
Despite this terrifying trend, Sweden’s political class—except for the Sweden Democrats and Alternative for Sweden—has largely tiptoed around the root cause: mass migration from alien cultures gone unchecked.
For years, establishment politicians denied or downplayed the connection between soaring crime and Sweden’s rapid demographic shifts. That silence is now deafening as citizens face daily violence and the erosion of public safety.
The consequences of these policies aren’t just statistical—they’re deeply personal for many Swedes. A new national survey revealed that more than half of Sweden’s aging population no longer sees a future in their homeland. Fifty-one percent of Swedes approaching retirement now say they want to move abroad. And why? Among the top reasons: to escape the migrant gang violence ravaging their cities.
Stockholmers are the most desperate to get out, with nearly 60% planning their exit. Spain, Italy, the U.S.—anywhere but Sweden. Even the country’s national anthem—“I want to live, I want to die in the North”—rings hollow now, as ordinary Swedes watch their homeland slip away.
This is what globalism does. This is what happens when unelected bureaucrats, socialist ideologues, and spineless politicians sell out their people in favor of a utopian fantasy that never existed.
For a nation that once prided itself on inclusivity and humanitarian ideals, this dramatic reversal exposes a painful truth: without borders, security, and integration, even the most idealistic societies can unravel.
Sweden is a warning to the rest of the West: if you open the floodgates to mass migration without assimilation, without borders, without sanity, you don’t get a multicultural paradise. You get chaos.
With Sweden facing the bitter fallout from years of reckless migration policy, the question now is not whether the country can go back, but whether it can stop the bleeding before more citizens decide that staying simply isn’t worth it.
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