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He later founded the Chosen Ones, one of Sweden’s most dangerous gangs. “The gang gives you an illusion ... time they come to me at Kumla, it’s a sign of failure on the part of society ...
A wave of gang crime has led to Sweden ... two decades ago when it had among the lowest. Sign up here. Over the last two years Swedish police say gangs have begun using social media platforms ...
STOCKHOLM - After more than a decade of rising deadly gang violence, Swedish police say the ... There were tentative signs of improvement in 2023, but the sustained decline is giving police ...
Fernando, a hitman for a Swedish narcotics gang, checks his phone ... in the shooting spree. But in a sign of the ...
Swedes have been warned that picking up punnets of strawberries from roadside vendors risks fuelling the country's gang war ... for one of Sweden's most violent criminal gangs.
Sweden is currently grappling with a wave of gang crime involving teenagers ... Teenagers are being increasingly hired by gangs through social media, particularly Telegram, to commit crime.January ...
They vowed to put a stop to ten years of brutal gang violence. To date, they have failed. In 2024, Sweden has seen 148 shootings, 20 of which has been fatal. The year before there were 53 gun deaths.
Statistics show Swedish gang-related violence has increased potently in neighboring Denmark, too, where Danish gangs in at least 25 instances since ... developmental immaturity,” Larsen said. Sign up ...
(Anders Wiklund /TT News Agency via AP) (CN) — Armed with a new method to map the scale of gang-related organized ... president of the Swedish Police Association, echoed the need for a combined effort ...
STOCKHOLM/COPENHAGEN, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the ...
It is now scrambling to react to an escalation in violence as those gangs wage war on each other for control of lucrative local narcotics markets. The Nordic state has among the highest rates of ...