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    Bombs and blood feuds: the wave of explosions rocking Sweden’s cities

    Incidents involving explosives have risen to crisis levels in a country where the crime rate is low
    by Richard Orange Jan 25, 2020 5 minutes
    Residents of Rolfsgatan in Malmö organised a party to raise morale after a bombing in the street. Photograph: Emil Langvad/The Telegraph

    The first thing Daniel Georén registered was a cacophony of car alarms. It was 2am, and everyone in the attractive cobbled street where he lives in Malmö, Sweden, had been jolted awake by a giant explosion.

    “The blinds shot up because of the pressure, and straightaway there was a small crowd of neighbours outside,” the 40-year-old wine merchant told the Observer a week after the blast.

    The damage was still there to see: the door to his backyard had been blown off, his downstairs windows shattered, and his Volvo written off. Where the bomb had been planted in front of the house next door, there was a chunk of wall missing.

    You might expect such a powerful explosion to be unusual in a middle-class district in otherwise safe, well-organised Sweden. But

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