In a port city, grenade attacks shatter Swedish sense of safety

Goran Mansson, head of Malmo's bomb squad, displays unexploded grenades found this year in the city August 5, 2015. REUTERS/Elias von Hildebrand

MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - After years in the military and police dealing with bombs and mines in ex-Yugoslavia, Lebanon and Iraq, Goran Mansson is now back home advising Swedes what to do if they find an unexploded grenade on their street or in a playground.

As bomb squad chief in the western port city of Malmo, Mansson has been busy with a dozen grenade attacks in the last few months. They have shocked a Nordic country that prides itself on safety, led to worries criminality is out of control and given political fodder to a resurgent far-right that blames immigrant gangs for the violence.