Södertälje's municipal chairman: "I refuse to talk about clans and families"

Family-related crime has been discussed extensively since Deputy Chief of Police Mats Löfving stated that there are more than 40 criminal families, families and clans in Sweden.

According to experts, Södertälje is one of the affected areas.

But Boel Godner, chairman of the municipal board in Södertälje, is of a different opinion.

- I do not want to describe a related crime.

There is serious organized crime in Södertälje, and there are a bit of all sorts of people, she says in Ekot's Saturday interview.

She also does not want to support the fact that kinship would be relevant for understanding organized crime.

- It must be up to the police, she says.

"Did not learn Swedish"

Instead, Godner believes that the problems include the segregation that arose after the refugee wave.

- During the war in Iraq and Syria, so many people came to Södertälje at the same time, she says and continues:

- It became enormously segregated and cramped, and black rental systems emerged.

Many moved to Södertälje the second day in Sweden and got off to a very bad start.

Some have still not learned Swedish.

"Finally a national issue"

According to the Deputy Chief of Police, criminal family networks come to Sweden only to organize and systematize crime.

But Godner says she can not comment on whether it is true or not.

- But we know that there is an organized crime in Södertälje that uses the systems for migration that exist in Sweden today.

According to Godner, this is partly about the EBO Act, which allows asylum seekers to decide for themselves where in the country they want to live, and partly about the rules for labor immigration, which she believes are extremely generous.

- It has almost become a market to sell work permits in Sweden, she says.

Although Godner does not share the police's view of family clans, she is very positive that organized crime is now being discussed throughout the country.

- It has finally become a national issue of it, she says.

- Sweden needs to review how deregulation has made it possible for criminals to use our welfare systems.