Swedish teenagers are becoming more and more young gangs and even offering contracted murder services. Many of them grow in destructed families, they are toxicode dependent and suffer from sexual abuse.
Violence associated with organized crime in Sweden is assuming increasingly worrying contours, with the authorities warning of the growing involvement of adolescent girls as executors in contracted homicides.
Determined to show it “harshest That the boys ”, some offer their services on encrypted messaging platforms, according to Stockholm prosecutor, Ida Arnell.
In a recent case, a 15 -year -old has been recruited for an armed attack. Confronted with the choice between shooting the victim’s door or against his head, he opted for the second hypothesis. Although it was a 17 -year -old male accomplice pulling the trigger, the target was seriously injured, hit in the neck, abdomen and legs.
According to official data, 280 girls between 15 and 17 were accused of violent crimes in 2023including homicide and voluntary homicide, although it is unclear how many of these cases are directly related to organized crime.
For experts, the role of young women has been systematically underestimated, which contributed to the strengthening of criminal networks, denotes.
Sweden has been facing explosives and explosive -attacks for 15 years, driven by drug trafficking networks and weapons, social support fraud and human trafficking.
The government already classifies these organizations as a “systemic threat”, There are signs of infiltration in sectors such as local policy, education or minors’ reception network.
In July, the head of one of Sweden’s largest criminal organizations was arrested in Türkiye. The Swedish press identified him as Ismail Abdo, 35, head of the Rumba criminal organization, and accused of orchestrating criminal operations from abroad.
Abdo led the Foxtrot criminal network along with Rawa Majid, another of the Sweden’s most sought after criminals. Both are suspected of controlling much of the Nordic country’s drug market.
But the pair fell out, which gave rise to a new climb of violence Between gangs in Sweden when Abdo’s mother was murdered in September 2023 at her home.
Although often seen only as victims, girls also assume active roles in these wars.
A report by the Ksan organization, published in March, warns that most of those involved have Dependency problems and untreated trauma. Two out of three young people convicted of drug -related crimes were also victims of sexual violence.
Natalie Klockars’ testimony illustrates this reality. Daughter of a toxicodependent mother and a prisoner, began to traffic drugs at 19winning hundreds of customers in a few months.
But the violence inherent in the business almost cost him the life and that of the son he expected. He abandoned the crime the day his daughter was born.
To stop the climb, the government has proposed legislation that will allow the authorities Put listening to children under 15.
