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Voluntary Remigration: Sweden Offers Migrants $61K Incentive to Leave Europe

Sweden’s center-right coalition government—supported by the national-conservative Sweden Democrats—is set to roll out a sweeping new plan that will dramatically increase financial incentives for migrants who voluntarily leave the country, marking one of the most generous “return grant” programs in Europe.

Unveiled on Wednesday, the proposed policy would offer up to SEK 600,000 ($61,134) to migrant families who choose to repatriate or resettle outside the European Union and select neighboring countries.

Individual adults could receive SEK 350,000 ($35,974), while couples may qualify for up to SEK 500,000 ($50,933). Families would also be eligible for an additional SEK 25,000 ($2,490) per child under 18, capped at the SEK 600,000 total.

“This is about giving people who feel excluded or who haven’t found a place in Swedish society the opportunity for a dignified return and a new beginning elsewhere,” Migration Minister Johan Forssell said in a statement to the Swedish TT news agency. “But this won’t be a free ticket. If they return to Sweden, they’ll be required to pay the money back.”

The plan comes in response to the country’s ongoing challenges with migrant integration, particularly for those with permanent residency who remain outside the workforce or social mainstream.

Migrants—primarily from Islamic countries—not only rely on Sweden’s generous welfare system at disproportionately high rates compared to native-born Swedes, but are also significantly overrepresented in violent crime statistics.

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Sweden Says No Sabotage In Baltic Sea Cable Damage, Releases Seized Ship (But Russia!)

The mainstream media narrative of Russian ‘shadow fleet’ vessels traversing the Baltic Sea in a clandestine anti-NATO operation to sabotage vital underwater communications cables linking European nations continues to unravel at rapid pace.

Swedish authorities have issued the results of their official investigation into Malta-flagged Vezhen ship, following the discovery of damage to a fiber-optic cable between Sweden and Latvia on Jan. 26. Authorities had immediately seized the cargo ship on suspicion it intentionally damaged the cable.

But in a sudden turn, as of Monday the Vezhen has been released after the investigation found no wrong-doing. It was not the result of sabotage or any intentional plot, investigators now say.

“The investigation concerning a cable break between Sweden and Latvia in the Baltic Sea has clarified that it is not a case of gross sabotage,” Swedish prosecutors said in a new statement.

“It has been established that a combination of weather conditions and deficiencies in equipment and seamanship contributed to the cable break,” Senior Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist added in the statement.

The consensus is that as the vessel was transporting fertilizer from Ust-Luga, Russia to South America – a ship anchor was damaged and unintentionally dropped into the sea during extremely bad weather, which is when the damage to the cable occurred. The incident is one of several cable incidents in regional waters still being investigated as suspected Russian sabotage.

Now that the ship has resumed its journey to South America, its operator has indicated it may stop for repairs in nearby Denmark.

A statement by ship operator Navigation Maritime Bulgare (Navibulgar) to AFP said Swedish authorities formally notified the crew that “there is no reason to believe that sabotage or malicious act was committed on board by our crew.”

It said the crew members, who had been detained along with the ship, are in good health and that they are resuming the journey. A week ago the company had vehemently denied that this was an act of sabotage, and called on Sweden to quickly release the vessel. 

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Crime-Plagued Sweden Plans To Send Dangerous Convicted Criminals to Prisons Abroad, as Its Correction System Is Overloaded Due to Gang Violence Epidemic

While liberal bleeding hearts are horrified that US President Donald J. Trump is planning on sending as many as 30k criminal illegal aliens to prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the trend of displacing the most dangerous elements threatening societies is already widely taking shape in Europe.

Sometimes, as in the UK in Rwanda and Italy in Albania, the process is euphemistically called ‘processing centers’ for ‘asylum seekers.’

But now, it arises that the conservative government of Sweden plans to send criminals to serve their sentences in prisons abroad.

A commission announced the plans yesterday (29), as the Nordic country is trying to handle the influx of new inmates that are coming from the seemingly unstoppable wave of gang crime.

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NATO, Sweden, Latvia On High Alert After Baltic Undersea Data Cable “Damaged”

The third severing of an undersea cable in just three months occurred on Sunday, this time between Latvia and Sweden in the Baltic Sea. The incident has prompted a criminal investigation and heightened concerns of potential sabotage by Russia or China.

Latvia’s State Radio and Television Center, a data transmission provider, released this statement about the damaged cable connecting Ventspils in Latvia and Sweden’s Gotland island:

In the early morning of January 26, the submarine fiber optic cable of the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (hereinafter – LVRTC) in the Baltic Sea was damaged. The LVRTC Data Transmission Monitoring System recorded disruptions in data transmission services on the Ventspils – Gotland (Fårösund) section. LVRTC continues to provide services using other data transmission routes. Currently, there is a possible delay in data transmission speed, but it does not affect end users in Latvia for the most part.

Prime Minister Evika Silina commented about the incident on X:

Early morning today we received information that the data cable from Latvia to Sweden was damaged in the Baltic Sea, in the section that is located in the Exclusive economic zone of Sweden. We are working together with our Swedish Allies and NATO on investigating the incident, including to patrolling the area, as well as inspecting the vessels that were in the area. Authorities have intensified information exchange and started criminal investigation.

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EU state demands ‘honest life’ from future citizens

Immigrants hoping to become Swedish citizens must demonstrate that they have lived an “honest life” and commit to respecting the Nordic nation’s liberal values, under new rules announced by Migration Minister Johan Forssell

The new regulations were proposed by a government-appointed commission and adopted by the government this week, Forssell said at a press conference on Tuesday. They will come into force next year

Under the new system, immigrants applying for citizenship will have to prove that they have resided in Sweden for eight years, and that they have lived an “honest life” – with no criminal convictions or outstanding debts – both before and after arriving in Sweden

Currently, Swedish authorities only examine applicants’ conduct after arrival, and immigrants may apply for citizenship after five years

”This is particularly important at a time when Sweden has welcomed hundreds of thousands of people from many parts of the world in recent years,” Forssell told reporters. “You should feel proud to be a Swedish citizen, and you only feel proud once you’ve made an effort.”

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NATO State Seeking More Cemetery Space for Potential Future War Casualties

Funeral associations in Sweden are looking to secure enough land to bury thousands of people in the event of a war, the Associated Press has reported. The Nordic country joined NATO earlier this year, amid the US-led military bloc’s growing involvement in the Ukraine conflict.

The burial association in Sweden’s second-largest city, Gothenburg, is trying to acquire additional land to ensure casket sites for some 30,000 dead, on top of what is needed for graveyards for regular use, AP wrote on Saturday.

Swedish media outlets reported earlier this month that the authorities were bracing for up to half a million potential fatalities if the country were to enter a full-scale war.

In big cities… land resources are scarce to begin with and not always sufficient to meet burial ground needs even in times of calm and peace,” AP quoted Katarina Evenseth, senior advisor at the Goteborg Burial Association, as saying.

In October, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) released updated civil preparedness guides with instructions on how to survive during an armed conflict. The brochure, dubbed “In case of crisis or war,” contains advice on evacuation, how to stop bleeding, and other recommendations.

“The national security situation has changed drastically, and we all need to strengthen our resilience to various crises and, ultimately, war,” MSB Director General Mikael Frisell said in a statement last month.

Stockholm dropped decades of military non-alliance and joined NATO in March, amid the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The US-led bloc has been supporting Kiev by providing military aid, and in November, Washington authorized strikes using its missiles deep inside Russian territory. France has also suggested that Ukraine should be allowed to fire its missiles into Russia in self-defense, and Moscow has claimed that British-supplied Storm Shadows have already been used in such strikes.

Moscow has reiterated that the move makes NATO a direct party to the conflict.

According to critics of Stockholm’s accession to NATO, Sweden has become a potential target in the event of a war.

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Sweden, Finland warn residents to be ready for war: ‘Situation is serious’

Sweden and Finland have all begun warning their residents to prepare for the possibility of war as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine rages on.

Stockholm on Monday published its latest version of “In Case of Crisis or War,” a pamphlet instructing civilians on how to prepare for, and ride out, a national crisis that was last sent out in 2018.

The pamphlet, which has been issued five times since World War II, is now twice as long at 32 pages and focuses on war preparations as the Swedish government warns of the worsening situation in Ukraine.

“The security situation is serious and we all need to strengthen our resilience to face various crises and ultimately war,” said Mikael Frisell, director of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency.

An estimated 5.2 million copies of the pamphlet are set to be delivered to Swedish households in the next two weeks, with the text available in multiple languages online.

The text calls on citizens to be ready with a stockpile of food and emergency supplies, including baby food, medicine and hygiene products.

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Swedish Police Want to Fight Crime with Live Facial Recognition

The Swedish police want to use facial recognition in real time to crack down on serious crimes.

Government investigators have already drafted a bill that will make it possible to use the technology. The regulation, however, still needs to be completed before it can be tabled, National Police Chief Petra Lundh told publicly funded radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio last week.

Lundh also noted that the legislation must comply with the EU AI Act and could potentially be temporary until crime rates settle down.

Sweden has been experiencing a flood of gang-related attacks, including firearms and explosives, leading the Scandinavian country to crown itself with the title of highest per capita gun violence rate in the European Union. Police Chief Lundh believes law enforcement agencies could use cameras to find suspects.

“It is not unusual that we have a picture of the likely perpetrator, but then we cannot find him or her,” Lundh says.

The suggestion has already been met with criticism. The technology could make incorrect matches for people with dark skin leading to perceptions that the AI is racist, says lawyer Kristofer Stahre.

“I am worried about what consequences it may have for the Swedish people,” he says.

The Swedish government has been working on expanding the use of biometric data in policing on other fronts.

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Part 2 of the results of the Swedish bad batch analysis that confirms the Danish study – 3/4 of adverse events in Sweden were amongst women

Not so fun fact: 75% of Swedish adverse events were reported on behalf of women.

Not a single Danish newspaper is publishing these results. The research was crowd funded, instead of being compiled by government agencies – these agencies could give a rat’s hairy ass!

From this 18-minute video here.

Swedish pfizer side effects (youtube.com)

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1… Reports of Batch-Dependent Suspected Adverse Events of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine: Comparison of Results from Denmark and Sweden https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39202… 2023, Nationwide study from Denmark Identified a batch-dependent safety signal for the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine 2024, Suspected adverse events (SAEs) Denmark and Sweden SAEs reported to national authorities”

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Afghan Migrant Was Granted Swedish Citizenship After Raping Multiple Women, Can Not Be Deported As A Result

An Afghan migrant was granted citizenship after raping multiple women at the hospital where he worked. The unnamed 24-year-old arrived in Sweden as an “unaccompanied minor” in 2016, and committed the assaults while employed at the Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala.

The migrant worked at the hospital from November of 2019 to May 31 of this year, though worked his last shift as a healthcare assistant in August of 2023.

According to Samnytt, the suspect, who moved from Afghanistan to Sweden when he was 16 years old as an “unaccompanied minor,” is believed to have carried out his attack against his first two victims in December of 2021 while on shift at the hospital.

Hospital Human Resources Chief Olivia Laurent Wijkmark confirmed that the migrant’s role involved watching over patients who “require supervision,” suggesting they were particularly vulnerable.

Though the migrant is said to have no previous criminal history, police remanded the asylum seeker into custody last weekend under suspicion he had raped a third victim at a residential address in Uppsala last month. The Västmanland District Court explained in its remand order that “there are probable grounds to suspect the 24-year-old of three rapes.”

However, because the migrant had been granted Swedish citizenship in May of this year, he will not be deported, even if found guilty.

This is not the first time an Afghan migrant has avoided deportation in Sweden. As previously reported by The Publica, two Afghan migrants who received Swedish citizenship in 2020 were recently convicted of raping a young girl and filming the assault.

Despite threatening to murder the girl if she resisted them, Irshad Ahmad and Elham Bahram, both of whom are 16 years old, received light prison sentences and were able to avoid deportation.

In July, the Malmö District Court convicted Irshad of several disturbing crimes, including “aggravated rape against a child, offensive photography, child pornography, and additional assaults against two other girls,” but was only sentenced to 10 months in youth residential care for being a minor.

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