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This crime's category is very new in Sweden and was not even logged prior to 2017. Bombings increased significantly in 2015, with Swedish police investigating around 100–150 explosions. There were over 30 explosions reported in the Swedish city of Malmö alone by August 2015, up from a total of 25 in all of 2014. Malmö police have consequently warned about undetonated grenades in the city. By 2019, there were more than 100 explosions in Sweden. The hand grenades found by the police are exclusively the ex-Yugoslavian M75 hand grenade.

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  • This crime's category is very new in Sweden and was not even logged prior to 2017. Bombings increased significantly in 2015, with Swedish police investigating around 100–150 explosions. There were over 30 explosions reported in the Swedish city of Malmö alone by August 2015, up from a total of 25 in all of 2014. Malmö police have consequently warned about undetonated grenades in the city. By 2019, there were more than 100 explosions in Sweden. The hand grenades found by the police are exclusively the ex-Yugoslavian M75 hand grenade. (en)
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  • Chart |height=250 |width=300 |xAxisTitle=year |yAxisTitle= |yAxisMin=0 |y1Title=Malmö |y2Title=Gothenburg |y3Title=Stockholm |y4Title=Sweden |type=rect |showSymbols= |legend= |x=2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, Total |y1= 1, 1, 4, 6, 9, 4, 2, 0, 27 |y2= 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 5, 3, 2, 13 |y3= 0, 0, 0, 2, 3, 17, 12, 12, 46 |y4= 2, 1, 5, 8, 22, 39, 21, 18, 116 |colors=blue,orange,green,black (en)
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  • This crime's category is very new in Sweden and was not even logged prior to 2017. Bombings increased significantly in 2015, with Swedish police investigating around 100–150 explosions. There were over 30 explosions reported in the Swedish city of Malmö alone by August 2015, up from a total of 25 in all of 2014. Malmö police have consequently warned about undetonated grenades in the city. By 2019, there were more than 100 explosions in Sweden. Many such attacks are related to organised crime and extortion of restaurants and businesses. Far-right political activists spreading anti-immigrant sentiments have attributed the rise in grenade attacks and crime with the migrant crisis, a claim that has been disputed. Paulina Neuding of The Spectator wrote that Swedish officials have failed to effectively address the problem: "it's still hard for Swedish authorities to be frank about what's going on. It's widely known that gang members are mainly first- and second-generation immigrants." In Malmö, the grenades are frequently old weapons from the wars in the Balkans. The police assume that someone imported a large cache of grenades, which has then been distributed to criminal gangs. In addition to grenade attacks, there are a significant number of related bomb attacks with improvised explosive devices, including homemade bombs. The number of incidents involving explosives tripled between 2008 and 2016. According to a December 2018 Swedish Television interview with researcher Amir Rostami, Sweden has a high number of hand grenade attacks compared to neighbouring countries Denmark, Norway, and Germany. According to the Swedish police the reason may be the light sentence for possession compared to a firearm and that when you use it the evidence destroys itself. While gun homicides were on the rise in the 2011–2018 time span, according to a study at Malmö University, the number of hand grenade attacks had shown a strong increase in the same period and a total of 116 hand grenade detonations were recorded. Rostami said criminologists in Sweden don't know why there was a strong increase and why Sweden has a much higher rate than countries close by. Statistics are hard to come by as the only country apart from Sweden that publishes statistics is Mexico. The hand grenades found by the police are exclusively the ex-Yugoslavian M75 hand grenade. While Swedish media sometimes are accused of not covering the topic enough, a 2019 study by polling company Kantar Sifo found that law and order was the most covered news topic on Swedish TV and radio and on social media. (en)
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