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The migrant invasion has brought Sweden to its knees but anyone who opposes it is a racist-islamophobic-anti-Muslim-bigot.Welcome to left’s idea of paradise.
Volvo CEO laments Sweden’s high crime rate, says company might move its HQ abroad
By RT, 11 Jul, 2019:g that his company struggles to attract foreign specialists due to the lack of public security and may be considering moving elsewhere.
Speaking to the daily Svenska Dagbladet, Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson lamented the fact that the auto manufacturer has been gradually losing its appeal to foreign tech experts and engineers, as well as top managers. The problem, according to him, partly lies in the fact that the specialists are reluctant to move to Sweden’s second largest city of Gothenburg, where Volvo’s headquarters are located, because of the arguably high crime rate.
Story continues below advertisementAlso on rt.com 8 more areas in Sweden added to list of so-called ‘no-go zones’ “We are building cars, we cannot solve this problem,” Samuelsson told SvD. “Yet, one can still point out that this problem does exist.” Among the other issues he mentioned were the lack of affordable housing and schools.
The Volvo CEO even mentioned that the company might potentially consider moving its headquarters somewhere else – probably even out of Sweden – if this situation does not change. He hastened to say that Volvo is not considering such possibility just yet, but he would not completely rule it out in the future.
Samuelsson’s words provoked an angry reaction from Gothenburg police chief Erik Nord, who dismissed them as “unfair.”
The general situation in the city is not that bad, he said, explaining that something that is seen as “normal” elsewhere somehow gets “undeservedly great attention” in Sweden.
Nord also criticized Sameulsson for what he described as relying too much on social media, which provides a distorted view of the situation, according to the police chief.
“Even such people as Hakan Samuelsson get their information from what they read on Facebook and Twitter. That does not mean it is true,” Nord told the Swedish media, adding that “Gothenburg is a fairly safe city” as compared with other cities around the world.
Other Swedish officials, however, were seemingly more favorable towards the Volvo CEO’s assessment of the situation. Prime Minister Stefan Loefven said he had “respect” for Samuelsson’s opinion.
“If Volvo experiences [such problems] then it is so,” he said, vowing to build more homes, make education better, and combat crime.
Also on rt.com 22 cars burned in Sweden as country rocked by rising crime “We are investing more in higher education. We train twice as many police officers as before we took office,” Loefven told journalists.
Axel Josefson, a municipal official from Gothenburg, said that he is well aware of the city’s problems and “agrees” with the criticism voiced by the CEO.
Criminal activities in Sweden’s second-largest city have indeed featured in the headlines for quite some time. Back in August 2018, Gothenburg saw a massive crimes surge, with dozens of cars as well as several buildings getting torched in a series of arson attacks.
A year prior, some areas of Gothenburg were described as virtual “no-go zones,” which have high crime and poverty rates and serve as fertile ground for religious extremism.
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4 years ago
Bit of News from Australia as we continue to battle the Fake News Broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Channel (ABC), this one is on Hamas and the Children taught to hate
ABC in ‘absolute denial’ over Hamas ‘wanting blood’
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6060181341001
4 years ago
Reply to
knightsstrength
The worldwide MSM’s agenda is not shocking or mindblowing. They are choosing to live in a bubble of deception, disseminating fake-news to the woolen-headed masses of the Left, as not to cause night terrors regarding the boogie man, Islam. Hamas has perpetually indoctrinated Palestinian children Jew-Hatred, Israel-Hatred and all non-believers of Islam. They are endeavoring, inspiring the children towards martyrdom by murdering Israelis.
The parents, too, are culpable in this perversity but god forbid the truth has no place in Liberalism’s LA LA Land. The MSM does not want the leftist dullards checking under their beds or closets to discover there is a bona fide boogie man, Islam.
4 years ago
no problemo, the Bombay Camel Ramp Co. is looking for office space – perhaps they will consider the outgoing Volvo offices
4 years ago
Thinking about moving Volvo’s HQ; hell, act on it; Sweden is but a toxic, Islamic wasteland. What are the options? France, or another EU Caliphate state, Britain, Canada, all of whom are underfoot of appeasing Islamic leadership. America, too, is not far from subjugation, especially if the Democrats steal the 2020 election.
Yiyoya’s suggestion is, of course, the most logical but logic is not part of the Euro’s mindset. Hungary is an independent-minded nation, a faction of the EU, indeed, but refuses to bend to the autocratic powers of the EU’S threats regarding the Muslim mass-migrant invasion.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Hungary and the Eastern Europeon countries need to flip the Europeon Urinal the bird and prepare for war w/the rotten, dying, corrupt, craven, cowardly atheist West before they fight as janissaries for the muslum world against them.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
The sensible Eastern European country’s should certainly piss off the fast islamizing Eu and perhaps form their own alliance and maybe currency as well.
4 years ago
Reply to
Hans Wellington
They already have the Visegrad group, they need to formalize it as a military alliance against the rotten, degenerate, muslum puppet states of the Europeon Urinal.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Great I did not know that, for the last 50 odd years i don’t live in Europe anymore.
4 years ago
Even such people as Hakan Samuelsson get their information from what they read on Facebook and Twitter.
Great idea, Nord: Blame the messenger. Don’t address the message head on.
Besides, I’m sure Mr Samuelsson, like all people well grounded in reality, gets his information from gellerreport.com!
4 years ago
Or Poland.
4 years ago
Move to Poland, as we do not let the Muslim scum in.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Indeed! A righteous “Islamophobia.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274301/siege-vienna-and-eastern-europes-subconscious-fear-raymond-ibrahim
4 years ago
Police Chief in denial.
4 years ago
Instead of addressing the situation in reality mode….like DEPORTING those who create problems…the fool talks about throwing MORE money at an impossible situation. The police chief shouldn’t be comparing Gothenburg to other cities around the world but compare it to PRE ISLAMIC INVASION.
4 years ago
Volvo would be smart to vacate Sweden now. It is only going to get worse.
4 years ago
‘religious extremism’, nice job Russian pigs concealing the true nature of the threat to Swedenistan.
4 years ago
I guess they have no choice but to RETREAT. Get kicked out of their own land.
Looks like the Left strategy is working to a Tee. Invade without firing a shot and they FLEE even.
4 years ago
Gothenburg police chief Erik Nord said “Even such people as [Volvo CEO] Hakan Samuelsson get their information from what they read on Facebook and Twitter. That does not mean it is true.”
I don’t know whether the reputation of Gothenburg as being unsafe is true or not, but the reality is that if a city is perceived to be unsafe, people will tend avoid it.
From my understanding, either Poland or Hungary would provide Volvo’s HQ with a safer and more welcoming environment than what it’s now experiencing.
4 years ago
enemy inside – european governments
4 years ago
I hope they come to the U.S.
4 years ago
Need a photo of a burning Volvo to accompany this article. This will do since it’s hard to identify the hundreds of cars in Sweden that have been torched by the migrants in Sweden who enrich the culture of Sweden. What company is next to leave Sweden….IKEA?
4 years ago
Reply to
Patriotliz
I never knew muslum car-b-ques were a thing in Swedenistan just like they are in Fwance! I wonder if car insurance covers acts of musum car-b-que? Or is it just an act of allah and thus uncovered?
4 years ago
many businesses will follow them out
4 years ago
It’s not whether the crime rate ‘isn’t all that bad,’ it is what those foreign specialists that Volvo needs, and their families, it is what they think.
Who wants to set up home in an islamised town?
4 years ago
Pay attention to the reaction of the police chief of Gothenburg. He says “this is unfair”, that’s why Sweden
is being obliterated (my comment). The absolute refusal to admit the fact that this unfettered immigration
has destroyed the country.
4 years ago
The Swedes have only themselves to blame for their current situation….
