• @teslasaur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    32•1 month ago

    What does skin color have to with it being classified as terror crime or not? This isn’t America.

    This is verbatim what the police press officer said

    Det finns nu inga misstankar om att det handlar om ett terrorbrott, och polisen tror att mannen har agerat på egen hand, även om man inte utesluter fler med koppling till dådet, säger Roberto Eid Forest.

    • thisisbutanameEnglish
      29•1 month ago

      Well, maybe hate crime.

      I understand not jumping to conclusions, but a white man shooting up a school for immigrants kinda sounds like a duck

      • @teslasaur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        37•1 month ago

        While it definitely appears to be a hate crime, i just cant emphasize how different racial relationships are in Sweden compared to USA.

        We didn’t have a constitution that said people are free, whilst justifying slaves by saying they weren’t human, since they were “black”

        What we have are cultures that completely clash in modern times due to many, many reasons.

        Hate crime, likely, but we don’t know. Because Swedish authorities doesn’t publicize such info out of concerns of privacy for potentially innocent adjacent.

        Grotuesquely enough one tabloid called the suspects father and started asking “why he did it”. He hadn’t even heard of the crime on the news yet. Its fucking disgusting what they did.

        Terrorism, not likely. And saying anything else while the bodies were still warm would have been basis for dismissal as press officer.

        • @WHARRGARBL@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22•1 month ago

          Thank you for providing context for Sweden, where this happened, for the fuckers who think USA is global.

          • thisisbutanameEnglish
            14•1 month ago

            For context, I’m from Italy. I’m just worried about the kind of violence directed specifically towards anyone “different”, whether it’s about skin color, place of origin or anything else

        • @Moose@moose.bestEnglish
          12•1 month ago

          Grotuesquely enough one tabloid called the suspects father and started asking “why he did it”. He hadn’t even heard of the crime on the news yet.

          Jesus christ, imagine finding out your son is the perpetuator of a horrific shooting and is dead from a tabloid reporter. I have way more sympathy for the families of the actual victims but it’s still awful for the father.

      • @Danitos@reddthat.comEnglish
        3•1 month ago

        I think that’s the point. A bit of a reality check for those people who believe they know how things work in other countries based on their very superficial POV, despite failing at the basics.