The association "Remaining in Vetlanda" was started in 2017 after the refugee wave in 2015. Their work from the beginning was to help unaccompanied boys with housing.
Arouses concern
Today, they work more broadly to help new arrivals to enter Vetlanda and Swedish society.
- There is a concern among the young Afghans that we have contact with to be bundled together with the suspect's actions because they have the same nationality, says Daniel Berner, chairman of the association Kvar in Vetlanda
To what extent do you understand that the deed in Vetlanda provokes refugee-critical reactions?
- I probably can not have any understanding of it.
The fact that the suspect had an identity as an Afghan does not make all other Afghans perpetrators, says Daniel Berner.