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Identity of murdered girl remains uncertain

Police have not yet been able to confirm the identity of a young woman found murdered in Mora in central Sweden on Monday.

Published: 19 February 2008 14:04 CET
Identity of murdered girl remains uncertain

The injuries sustained by the girl are believed to have made an identification impossible prior to the release of autopsy results expected on Wednesday.

Police have no suspects in the case.

Only after a post mortem examination will police be able to ascertain how the girl was killed and whether she was subjected to a sexual assault.

The girl was almost completely naked when her body was discovered by construction workers in Mora. The body was found hidden under insulation materials located behind a storage container.

Investigators are working on the theory that the victim may have been a 15-year-old girl who was reported missing from her home in the town on Saturday.

The girl was last seen alive at 7pm on Friday when a family member dropped her off at a bus stop in Mora. Her father had been expecting her to pay him a visit in Älvdalen but his daughter never arrived.

A thorough search of the girl’s computer revealed that she sometimes arranged meetings with people she came into contact with on the internet.

“We are now trying to find out if she made an appointment with somebody on Friday,” said police spokesman Sven-Åke Petters.

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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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