Fernando, a hitman for a Swedish narcotics gang, checks his phone ... in the shooting spree. But in a sign of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shootings have become an almost daily occurrence in Sweden - some carried out by teenagers - with most of the violence blamed on gangs. Sign up here ... not want "Swedish gang crime to get ...

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 - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Swedish gang members have been hired by Danish gangs for violent attacks on rivals and Danish Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said there were 25 such instances just since April. He labelled ...

Sweden has about 14,000 active gang criminals and an additional 48,000 people loosely affiliated with gangs, according to a police report last year. According to EU statistics agency Eurostat ...

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.