It's been unsafe for Swedish women and girls for much longer than a decade.

Sweden turned high crime not due to cashless, but due to immigration. The article is bull crap.

that's the reason Sweden turned into the hand grenade capital of the world?

not the obvious other thing?

There is a discussion on Reddit, looks like the article is mostly about the frauds online direct bank to bank transactions facilitate. And the "cashless" part is because the push for cashless has increased those.

And somebody copy and pasted the article, or at least a large part of it, here: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/06/21/2155253/why-going-cashless-has-turned-sweden-into-a-high-crime-nation

Accessed above link and most of article hidden behind paywall. So near impossible to discern what it is about.

I want my money in my pocket not someone else's computer!