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Murder attempt caught on camera

A 25-year-old man in Malmö indicted on a charge of attempted murder was captured on camera as he fired three shots at a 31-year-old man outside a nightclub in the Rosengård suburb in October.

Published: 10 January 2008 15:21 CET

The victim was treated for serious injuries at Malmö University Hospital. Although he did not report the incident, a subsequent police investigation soon revealed that a surveillance camera mounted on a nearby store had captured footage of the incident.

The resulting video is the strongest piece of evidence available to the prosecution.

“But it is a good piece of evidence,” said deputy chief prosecutor Bo Birgerson.

Two of the shots are clearly visible on the security footage and the victim can be seen falling to the ground.

Five people identified with the aid of the images have also been questioned by police.

“But none of them have provided any information that has pushed the investigation forward,” said Birgerson.

The 25-year-old man is also suspected of forgery after being found in possession of false passports, ID cards and driving licences.

“As far as I’m concerned his identity remains uncertain since he only had forged documents,” said Birgerson.

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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