Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood"
Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood"
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Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood"
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48030154
"I had a case involving a 15-year-old girl recruited to shoot someone in the head," Stockholm prosecutor Ida Arnell told AFP. "She was able to choose the type of mission she wanted, in other words, to aim at the guy's door or his head. She chose the head."
Some context not in the article
That "other violent crimes" appears to do some very heavy lifting. There are about 40 deaths a year in total in the criminal mileu. Unless I'm interpreting the data wrong
https://bra.se/download/18.63eed38e192716a4afccae/1742286318587/2024_6_Doldigt-vald-i-Sverige-sedan-1990.pdf
Yes, because liberals and conservatives sold everything. They sold it to friends, family, donors, who in turn sell it to gangs.
Not only that, children will also now be going to prison in Sweden.
Ah, yes. The head of the Swedish police said in an interview the other day that Signal have no other use than recruiting for assassinations. If you see someone using it, you should call the police.
Considering Sweden has a right wing government all of this sounds extremely dangerous but not in terms of organized crime but in terms of building a police state. The language the police uses and the way they frame the data to justify the erosion of human rights reflects that of totalitarian regimes. This is deeply concerning.