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Boy remanded for murder of 19-year-old

On Friday, Ystad district court remanded a 15-year-old boy suspected of murdering a 19-year-old female relative with probable cause. The young woman was found dead at her family farm near Sjöbo in southern Sweden at the beginning of August.

Police are looking iat several firearms as the potential murder weapon in their investigation.

Prosecutor Bengt Åsbäck cited August 2nd or 3rd as the date of the murder. The 15-year-old denied the charges and protested the basis of the remand.

On Thursday, police revealed the woman was shot and the weapon was confiscated from the farm, where the woman’s body was discovered and where the crime occurred.

“There are several weapons, but investigators do not want to say how many,” Lars-Håkan Lindholm, information officer for the Skåne police, told the TT news agency.

He did not reveal whether the incident involved a rifle or a handgun.

The weapons were found at the farm near Sjöbo and police are now investigating why they were there and how they had been stored.

Police have been reluctant to share details about what led them to raise the charges against the 15-year-old from murder on justifiable grounds, the lowest degree of suspicion, when he was first arrested to probable cause, the higher level of suspicion.

Several pieces of evidence were found at the farm.

“The results of the analysis of several of the pieces of evidence have begun to come back. We have also questioned several people during the investigation, both neighbours and family members. People have also called in with information,” Lindholm said.

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Nordic justice ministers meet tech giants on gangs using apps to hire ‘child soldiers’

The justice ministers of Denmark, Sweden and Norway are to meet representatives of the tech giants Google, Meta, Snapchat and TikTok, to discuss how to stop their platforms being used by gang criminals in the region.

Nordic justice ministers meet tech giants on gangs using apps to hire 'child soldiers'

Denmark’s justice minister, Peter Hummelgaard, said in a press release that he hoped to use the meeting on Friday afternoon to discuss how to stop social media and messaging apps being used by gang criminals, who Danish police revealed earlier this year were using them to recruit so-called “child soldiers” to carry out gang killings.  

“We have seen many examples of how the gangs are using social media and encrypted messaging services to plan serious crimes and recruit very young people to do their dirty work,” Hummelgaard said. “My Nordic colleagues and I agree that a common front is needed to get a grip on this problem.”

As well as recruitment, lists have been found spreading on social media detailing the payments on offer for various criminal services.   

Hummelgaard said he would “insist that the tech giants live up to their responsibilities so that their platforms do not act as hotbeds for serious crimes” at the meeting, which will take place at a summit of Nordic justice ministers in Uppsala, Sweden.

In August, Hummelgaard held a meeting in Copenhagen with Sweden’s justice minister, Gunnar Strömmer, at which the two agreed to work harder to tackle cross-border organised crime, which has seen a series of Swedish youth arrested in Denmark after being recruited to carry out hits in the country. 

According to a press release from the Swedish justice ministry, the morning will be spent discussing how to combat the criminal economy and particularly organised crime in ports, with a press release from Finland’s justice ministry adding that the discussion would also touch on the “undue influence on judicial authorities” from organised crime groups. 

The day will end with a round table discussion with Ronald S Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, on how anti-Semitism and hate crimes against Jews can be prevented and fought in the Nordic region. 

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