Swedish broadcaster TV4 edits interview to hide immigrant knife violence

On July 20, Swedish TV4 interviewed criminologist Tage Alalehto, who in the segment says that one explanation for the increased number of stabbings in the country could be "ethnic, xenophobic moods". But that was not really what he had said on camera.

When conservative weekly Nya Tider approached Alhalehto, however, he said that he also said that it was immigrant gang criminals, ethnic non-Swedes who are clearly over-represented in the increasing knife violence data, something that TV4 chose to edit out of their report.

“They [TV4] have cut and pasted and taken things out of context and put it together into something that fits a pre-established context and agenda,” he explained.

TV4’s newsroom has conducted a survey which showed that the number of people seeking care due to knife injuries has increased dramatically on year-by-year basis. The information is based on figures from the National Board of Health and Welfare’s patient register.

A collection of stabbing weapons used by immigrants in robberies or to defend drug territory. Photo: Ashim D’Silva

Knife violence in Sweden has increased for the seventh year in a row. In 2012, 624 people were injured in knife-related violence, in 2019 that number was 923. The number of victims injured in knife attacks is seven times higher than those injured in shootings.

Tage Alalehto is a criminologist at Umeå University. In a feature on TV4 on July 20, he appeared to be saying that a partial explanation could be “ethnic and xenophobic moods”. Anyone watching the feature is thus led to believe that the criminologist thinks that it was racism against immigrants that has been behind the...

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