Three youths aged 15 to 20 were killed in broad daylight at a hair salon in central Uppsala, about 45 miles north of Stockholm.

Mr. Rodríguez is a photojournalist who has reported extensively on incarceration, gangs, the police and re-entry. We used to believe in Sweden that the rights and well-being of children should ...

It exists everywhere throughout Sweden,” Hanna Paradis, former head of the National special operation “Frigg” - a police initiative created in 2023 to combat rising gang violence – tells ...

Just a few years ago, Sweden was considered a very safe country. Today, however, it faces a problem with organized crime.Numerous examples of gang activities have emerged. On April 11, two ...

Reversing a rise of gang violence involving children in Sweden will take at least a decade, the Nordic nation’s justice minister said Tuesday. “The problems are certainly very serious, and it will ...

Once seen as a peaceful Scandinavian welfare state, Sweden is becoming the European Union's gun-homicide capital as terrifying gangs bring death and terror to the ...

Swedish police said Friday a man had been shot ... who reportedly had links to criminal gangs. A video purporting to show the killing quickly spread on social networks. In the video, seemingly ...

STOCKHOLM, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Denmark will put pressure on Sweden to contain growing cross-border gang violence, including armed Swedish teenagers acting as "child soldiers" in turf wars ...