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Woman shot in new Gothenburg attack

Police say a woman is in hospital following a shooting outside an adult education complex in the Gårda area of Gothenburg, less than a week after two men were shot dead at a restaurant in the city.

Published: 24 March 2015 17:02 CET
Woman shot in new Gothenburg attack
Police investigating the shooting on Tuesday afternoon. Photo: TT
Emergency services were called to the scene in the east of the city just after 2.20pm on Tuesday afternoon.
 
Police told the TT news agency shortly afterwards that it was not clear how seriously the woman had been injured, but that she remained in hospital.
 
But a witness told Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper that they had seen "blood flowing and people around [the area] were in a panic". The bystander added that they had seen a man crying next to the victim.
 
The shooting took place just outside two adult education centres and the witness – a male student – added that he and his classmates had rushed outside to see what was going on.
 
"She just lay there on the ground. Opposite our school is a medical training centre, so a few nurses and one doctor came from school with towels and tried to stop the bleeding," he said.
 
The witness was understood to be a pupil at Lernia Vuxensgymnasium, an adult education centre which teaches Swedish as a foreign language, as well as vocational courses.
 
The area around the street where the shooting took place (Anders Personsgatan) was cordoned off and police were carrying out a forensic examination of the site on Tuesday evenning.
 
The shooting took place a week after a deadly attack in Biskopsgården, a different suburb in the west of the city and police were quick to suggest that they did not think the events were linked.
 
"There is currently no evidence to suggest that this would have something with gang conflicts", Jenny Widen, a spokesperson for Gothenburg police told TT.
 
A suspect has been arrested.
 

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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.

Published: 20 September 2024 10:31 CEST
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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