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One arrested after fatal Uppsala shooting

The police have arrested a man in his thirties suspected of involvement in a fatal shooting in an Uppsala shopping centre car park on Saturday evening.

Published: 2 April 2017 18:23 CEST
One arrested after fatal Uppsala shooting
A police officer with a dog on the crime scene in Uppsala's Boländerna shopping area. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

The police received a call at 7.07pm on Saturday about a suspected shooting in the Boländerna shopping area. A man in his forties with gunshot wounds was found near a Circle K petrol station and was taken to hospital by a civilian, but died later that evening.

A man aged around 35 was arrested on Sunday, suspected of involvement in the murder.

“The man, who is suspected of being an accessory to murder, was taken in for questioning after the crime was committed, and was later arrested,” Uppsala police spokesperson Christer Nordström said.

Several cars were seen leaving the area in connection with the shooting. The police have seized a luxury stolen car with fake registration plates, which is thought to be connected to the crime.

According to Christer Nordström, further interrogations were held on Sunday, but the police had no other suspects.

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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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