In 2019, the number of blasts in the country increased, from 162 in 2018 to 257 according to figures from Brå. Mats Löfving sees three clear reasons why the blasts are increasing.
- When the intelligence service does its analysis, they find 295 red threat individuals who commit this type of crime, they are many. Secondly, these 295 young people, unknown to us, hire the blasts, says Mats Löfving and continues:
- Thirdly, those who do this are not like you or me, they are irrational and illogical. Because they often have a psychiatric diagnosis or are drug-affected.
They are well known by the police, why don't you get them anyway?
- We have relatively good control of these threat individuals, but there are many. When we do not progress in the explosion, we often come forward in other criminal investigations, so we can lock in these criminals for other reasons.
"More to do"
According to Mats Löfving, the explosion is difficult to investigate as there is often very little evidence left after an explosion.
- The problem is that a lone person, masked on one night, places an explosive charge outside a door and then disappears. The explosion also removes a large part of the evidence, says Deputy Chief of Police Mats Löfving.
- It's hard to completely avoid this kind of crime, but we lock people in at a rate like never before. The detention centers are full and the prisons are full, but more remains to be done this week