Löfven's turn: Connects large migration with the development of crime

Stefan Löfven has long said that the issue of gang crime cannot be linked to migration.

In SVT's Agenda in November last year, for example, he firmly said no to the question.

The Prime Minister explained that gang crime is due to segregation, social divisions and areas of exclusion.

During the party leader debate in the Riksdag on Wednesday, Stefan Löfven was asked why he did not see the connection between a large immigration and growing crime. 

Then Löfven answered:

- With a large migration where we can not cope with the integration, then we also follow a greater risk of the problems we see.

It's crystal clear. 

"Getting social tensions"

When he is asked in tonight's Aktuellt, he develops his reasoning.

How to understand this, do you mean that a large migration leads to increased crime?

- If you have a migration that means in the order of magnitude that you can not cope with the integration then it will be so that we get social tensions in a society and it is not good, says Stefan Löfven and continues:

Löfven now also says for the first time that these problems have existed in Sweden - and that this is why the migration policy was redirected by the government.

- Yes, we have had it, so that is why the government I lead has made sure to change the migration policy, says Stefan Löfven.

"Must improve integration"

The Prime Minister develops his reasoning and believes that Sweden has had a large migration over the years which has meant that the country has not managed the integration well enough.

- If there are not enough people who come to work from the adults, then the children see that the adults are not at work and then you might think that it is the normal and other social tensions, and yes it is a problem, says Stefan Löfven and continues:

- That is why the government I lead changed the migration policy, so now we receive significantly fewer.

In addition, in the January agreement, we agree that we must manage integration much better, we must get closer to the labor market, better language education and more social studies.