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The death of a 15 year old who was shot in Malmö yesterday evening has caused a minor uproar. The pizzeria where he was shot is in a central part of Malmö, Möllevångstorget. One other, slightly older boy was also shot and is in serious condition. As of yet, there is no formal idea of who might be responsible.
DN interviewed several people who came to light a candle in a show of sorrow at the pizzeria. One woman, named Johanna, didn’t want to say her last name or have her picture taken at the scene. “I feel a huge hopelessness for the children who grow up in this town” she said. “I’m so scared that this will feed anti-democratic sentiment.”
DN quotes another passer-by as well, a sixty year old man, who describes the latest development as a nightmare: “A country like Sweden should take care of its citizens, but then this happens. I’ve been on the other side myself, I lived in this world for almost four decades. This is just crazy. They’re children. What can a 15 year old have done to deserve this? It’s the older ones who are using the younger ones: It can’t be anything else. And this whole thing with explosions. It’s only a small number who deal in these kinds of things. It shouldn’t be so hard to figure out.”
Only two kilometers away, reports of an explosion were called in, close to the time of the shooting. The police are treating these incidents as unrelated, SvD reports. But “per capita,” Henrik Häggström, senior analyst at the Swedish Defense University (försvarshögskolan) said in an interview with TV4: “you have to go to Afghanistan to find a similar situation to the one in Sweden” (SvD.se/15).
The shooters were said to have fled the scene on bicycles – being, perhaps, too young to have a drivers license.