Giullio Meotti
Israel National News, June 28, 2023
“When my train stops in Farsta, there is silence on the platform. The evening papers say the subway has been closed so the culprits cannot escape. A line of lemmings starts walking back towards Farsta. All eyes on their phones. Nobody says anything. Silence is more unpleasant than sirens.”
“Free Derry” is a famous area that declared itself “autonomous” in Northern Ireland’s second city between 1969 and 1972. The term originates from the writing painted on the wall of a building: “You are now entering Free Derry”. The name derives from its status as a “closed” area (no-go area) to British forces (British and Protestants called it Londonderry).
Who would have thought, fifty years later, that there would be other “no-go areas” in Europe?
In Stockholm, 7 people were killed in one day over one recent weekend: a young man in Jordbro; two in Solna; two boys, a 65-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man at the Farsta metro station. There have been 160 shootings in Sweden so far this year. One of the most peaceful countries in the world – until 2015 – today is at war. With itself.
And to think that, before the migrant crisis, the American liberal media had headlines: “Sweden has the answer to America’s gun problem”. Stockholm, in fact, has one of the most restrictive gun laws in the world or, in the words of Vox, “only responsible people can have them”. Sweden’s problem is that it hasn’t let in too many “responsible people”.
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