Western media turn a blind eye to femicide in Sweden with 25 to 30 murders per year.
Until years ago, violence against women in Sweden was almost a secret subject to the extent that this prosperous Scandinavian country was considered a leader in terms of gender equality, but news and statistics show that the reality is something else, and violence against women is on the rise. It is so that every three weeks a woman in Sweden is killed by her relatives.
There are many examples that illustrate the depth of this tragedy. Recently, a Swedish man who is accused of killing his Iranian wife, wrapped her body in an Iranian carpet and hid it in the seabed, was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment. The crime against this Iranian woman took place while the media claiming to defend women’s rights remained silent about the fact that the perpetrator of the crime was a Westerner.
The case was that in April of last year, the family of an Iranian woman named Samia informed the police of Stockholm, Sweden that their 40-year-old daughter was missing. One of his family members said that our daughter Samia, whom we called “Sasha”, has been living in Stockholm for several years. During this time, she met a Swedish man named Erik Vanhatalo, who was five years older than her, and they got married. They had a young son.
Her husband Eric was finally arrested on suspicion of murder and during the interrogations, he claimed that he did not know about his wife Samia, but after seven months he broke the lock of silence and confessed to the murder in October of last year.
In the description of the crime, he said: After an argument with Samia, I beat him and then put my hand on his throat and strangled him. During that time, our little son was also at home and witnessed the incident. When I saw that he was not breathing, I decided to take his body out of the house. I wrapped the body in the Iranian carpet that his father had given us as a gift. Then I moved it into the car. Then, with my child in the car, I sat behind the wheel and drove to Saltviken Bay. I sent the body to the bottom of the water at the place I had planned in advance and returned home. The next morning, I informed the police that my wife left the house and did not return.
After the accused’s confession, police officers arrived at the scene and pulled out the body from the 23-meter depth of the water. The forensic medical report showed that Samia died by pressure on the vital elements of the neck.
Somia is just one example of murder and homicide in Sweden, and every year dozens of women and even men in this prosperous Scandinavian country are victims of family violence, which we will take a statistical look at in the following.
A statistical look at fatal violence and Murder of Women in Sweden
Statistics from the National Crime Prevention Council (Brå) recently showed that the number of people killed in Sweden by a partner or ex-partner more than doubled between 2017 and 2018. Almost a quarter of the cases, 26 in total, were committed by a partner or ex-partner – more than double the previous year, when there were only 11 such cases.
Most people killed by a partner or ex-partner were women. Therefore, about 67% of all these types of murders were women (22 women per year). Only five percent of men who were victims of fatal violence were assaulted by a partner or former partner.
In the period 2017-2012, an average of 25 women died each year due to fatal violence, but the number who died at the hands of a current or former partner was about half that number.
Between 1990 and 1995, an average of 17 women died each year at the hands of a current or former partner, a figure that dropped to 14 women per year in 2015-2010.
The statistical website “Statista” has separated the number of murders in Sweden from 2011 to 2021 based on the gender of the victim in a report with the following graph; A report published on June 16, 2022.
According to this report, male victims exceed women. The number of men killed in violent crime increased from 2012 to 2015 but has remained stable since then. Meanwhile, the number of female homicide victims over the past decade has typically been between 25 and 30. In 2021, 89 men and 24 women were confirmed as homicide victims in Sweden. Compared to other European countries, the murder rate in Sweden was about average.
