Fernando, a hitman for a Swedish narcotics gang, checks his phone ... in the shooting spree. But in a sign of the extraordinary callousness of these gangs, the target turned out not to be a ...

A shocking tidal wave of drug-fuelled violence in Sweden has seen teenage “foot soldiers” armed with grenades and IEDs waging ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every Saturday night throughout the year, Robert Wirehag – a pastor and former youth soccer player for Swedish club ... leaders in the gangs.” Salihu explains that the gang leaders ...

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 ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - After more than a decade of rising deadly gang violence, Swedish police say the country's violent ... There were tentative signs of improvement in 2023, but the sustained decline ...

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.

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 ...

The shooting in Moss was an early sign that Sweden’s domestic crisis is ... in the nearby town of Drøbak was also the work of Swedish gang members. They believe that Swedish drug gangs are now ...

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 ...