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Immigrant parents should control mugger kids: PM

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Immigrant parents should control mugger kids: PM
Erna Solberg - Trondheim Havn

Immigrant parents should take more responsibility for stopping the wave of street crime sweeping Oslo, Norway's new prime minister has argued.

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“It looks like young gang members are behind most of this,” Erna Solberg told Dagsavisen newspaper on Monday. “I think the call from local parents to mobilize immigrant parents is important. We have to crack down on this, and parents in the immigrant community must also play their part.”
 
Oslo saw 120 robberies in October, more than any other city in Scandinavia. There were just 78 robberies recorded in Copenhagen and only 63 in Stockholm. 
 
Politicians from the country's immigrant communities largely agreed that parents of young gang members, most of whom come from immigrant backgrounds, could do more. 
 
"I think actually Erna's hit the nail on the head here," said Abid Raja from the Liberal Party. "It's time to get past worries over making immigrant parents feel stigmatized. It is mainly young people from immigrant community who commit these robberies." 
 

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