STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s national police chief said Tuesday that an escalation in gang violence this year — with almost daily shootings and bombings that have claimed dozens of lives ...

Two Swedish ministers have warned top EU officials of a rapid shift by criminals in Sweden toward the use of explosives like fireworks, in a recent letter sent to European Commission Industry ...

Getting the military involved in crime-fighting would be a highly unusual step for Sweden, underscoring the severity of the gang violence that has claimed a dozen lives across the country this ...

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 ...

One recent case involved a boy of just 11 years old. Children are the ideal catspaw for Sweden’s gangs: those aged under 15 are too young to be prosecuted, a quirk of Swedish law that critics ...

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 ...

Recruited via social media, adolescents under the age of 15 are taken in by gangs to kill for money. Many of these young ...

Spreading gang crime poses headache for centre-left government 2022 on track to be worst year for gang violence Crime tops voters' concerns ahead of September 11 election OREBRO, Aug 12 (Reuters ...

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 ...

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 ...