Early on Sunday morning, a 12-year-old girl was shot to death in Norsborg in Botkyrka.

The circumstances surrounding the act are still unclear, but according to information to Expressen, the girl must have been hit by a past bullet that was actually meant for two gang criminals.

"Not completely successful"

According to Ardavan Khoshnood, a specialist in emergency care and a criminologist, the police's national efforts against gang violence have not succeeded in reducing the deadly violence.

- Operation Rimfrost has not completely succeeded nationally in reducing the number of shootings, but in Malmö it has had a fantastic effect, he says in SVT Morgonstudion.

- The problem is that the gang-related violence has been going on for a long time without us being able to put up a hard fight. But now we have passed a large number of laws, new weapons legislation and secret data eavesdropping. We must work with legislation, but also with solid crime prevention work, which we have not succeeded in before.

Third child

The murdered girl is one in a line of a large number of children and outside adults who were killed during the ongoing gang wars.

- That a third party should be affected by this is still very low in a country like Sweden. However, it has increased: Nearly 15 people, without links to ongoing conflicts, have been murdered in the last ten years, says Ardavan Khoshnood.

- This 12-year-old girl is the third child to be killed due to so-called gangster wars.