Södra_Sofielund
Södra Sofielund
Neighbourhood in Skåne County, Skåne, Sweden
Södra Sofielund is a neighbourhood of Malmö, situated in the Borough of Södra Innerstaden, Malmö Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden. In 2015, the area was reported by daily newspaper Sydsvenskan to be a socially deprived area where drugs were sold openly and heavy violence involving the use of hand grenades and assault rifles occurred.[2]
In the 2011–13 period, about 35% of the population originated outside the EU and the Nordic countries.[3]
In its December 2015 report, Police in Sweden placed the district in the most severe category of urban areas with high crime rates.[4]