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Man seized in Stockholm for Rosengård shooting

A young man has been seized on suspicion of carrying out a gun murder in July in the Malmö district of Rosengård, in a further sign that police are closing in on the gangs behind recent shootings.

Published: 17 October 2018 22:03 CEST
Man seized in Stockholm for Rosengård shooting
Police technicians collect evidence after the shooting on Rosens Väg in July. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
The man was carrying a weapon when he was seized in the Stockholm area at 7pm on Tuesday. According to the police statement announcing the arrest, the man is not local either to Malmö or even to Skåne County in southern Sweden.
 
The statement said that police believed that several others had taken part in the killing on von Rosens Väg, and that they expected to make further arrests imminently. 
 
On Wednesday, a 26-year-old man was placed in pre-trial detention in connection with the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old on Ramels Väg in Rosengård 
 
 
According to the Sydsvenskan newspaper, Malmö Police are now close to solving seven of the 26 murders which have taken place in Malmö since 2016. 
 
The arrest comes shortly after three men were seized in September and October in connection with the fatal shooting of a 23 year old on Ramels Väg in Rosengård in 2017. 
 
Another 21-year-old man was seized in August in connection with the drive-by shooting of a man in the Gullviksborg district in September, 2016.
 
 
Two men are also in pre-trial detention for the murder of a 30-year-old in February in Docentgatan, Hermodsdal.
 
And a 32-year-old from Gothenburg is currently being held for accessory to the murder of three men at the Galaxy Cyber Café in Värnhem in June. 

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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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