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Child soldiers who commit acts of violence for payment are the new normal in Sweden
Published 2024-11-19
On Monday, a 14-year-old was arrested on suspicion of the latest shooting among people in a mall, something that has become an increasingly common phenomenon in multicultural Sweden. Expect this to be the new normal, says a police officer.

The shooting took place in Kungens kurva in southern Stockholm in the middle of the day when people were in motion. The shots were aimed at an employee of a restaurant.

Children and young people who are recruited online and travel across the country to commit acts of violence for payment are the new normal. This is stated by Erik Lindblad, operations manager for Frigg, the police's special effort against gang violence.

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- It is damn serious and something we need to address, he tells TT.

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According to Lindblad, there is still a very high demand among criminals to find people who want to commit serious violent crimes such as shootings and explosions.

At the same time, the police are better able to detect and interrupt such plans. This year alone, 150 potential serious acts of violence have been averted, many involving children.

Getting worse and worse
The situation is confirmed by Detective Inspector Johan Axelsson, group leader and investigation leader at the section for the investigation of serious violent crimes at the regional investigation unit.

- During the 20 years that organized crime has been part of my life, it has changed. It hasn't gotten better, rather it's gotten a little worse every day. It has forced the police in Gothenburg to become more efficient in responding to this, he tells Göteborgs-Posten .


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Not infrequently, the young torpedoes act on orders from criminal networks whose leaders are abroad.

Immigrants overrepresented
According to figures from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, which were presented this summer, immigrants are behind most of the youth violence.

Six out of ten perpetrators between the ages of 15 and 17, who between 2018 and 2022 were suspected of assault, were either born abroad or had two foreign-born parents.

At the same time, the same youth group made up only 20 percent of the population. This means that those with a foreign background are "strongly overrepresented among young people who are suspected of assault".