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It is shocking to me how many explosions Sweden has. They had about 90 in 2022 and they were already at 109 before the end of August this year! Basically one gang or another is blowing something up every 2-3 days!
Edit: 124 bombings as of September 15th.
Hah thats nothing, Germany has had 414 detonations in 2020 only related to busting ATMs. [0]
Apparently we had 1645 cases of "Herbeiführen einer Sprengstoffexplosion" which is roughly translated as "causing a detonation of explosives". [1] Many of them were probably not that bad but bad enough that the police got involved. Thats 4.5 cases a day.
On the other hand, sweden is only about 1/8th of the population of germany so that levels these numbers a bit.
[0] https://www.bka.de/DE/UnsereAufgaben/Deliktsbereiche/Geldautomatensprengungen/geldautomatensprengungen_node.html
[1] https://www.bka.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/PolizeilicheKriminalstatistik/2022/Bund/Faelle/BU-F-01-T01-Faelle_xls.xlsx?__blob=publicationFile&v=3
There's absolutely a fuck-ton more than show up in the statistics. Pretty much each time you thought "why are people firing fireworks it's not new year" that's a potential case. Most cases never make it to the police and even then many are probably going to be filed away under "oh that mardy pensioner again, wake us when it's a regular occurrence and you can actually name suspects".
This statistic had never occurred to me before, so I looked up the US.
In 2019, 14,940 explosive related incidents which include 715 explosions of which 251 were bombings.