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Man found shot on Ludvika street

A 28 year-old man was found shot in the stomach on the streets of Ludvika, in central Sweden, on Saturday afternoon. Another 28 year-old is in custody, suspected of attempted murder.

Published: 18 December 2011 13:08 CET
Man found shot on Ludvika street

“We’ve arrested him after interrogations,” said officer Sven-Åke Petters, press spokesman for the Dalarna police force, to news agency TT.

Police were alerted to the shooting around 1pm on Saturday, when reports of a man found lying in the street with bullet wounds came in.

The man was conscious when found, and taken to the hospital. According to the police, the man has had surgery.

Falu Hospital reported that the victim was shot in the stomach. He is reportedly severely injured.

The motive behind the shooting is not known. According to Petters, several investigative efforts have been put to work.

The suspect was arrested around 4pm. He’s been previously charged with drug related offences, but not with any violent crimes.

The weekend has been rowdy in Ludvika. On Friday night a 44 year-old man was attacked on the streets in the small town. He later died from the injuries he had sustained.

According to the police, however, the murder and the later shooting aren’t connected.

“With the information we have and are working with, there’s no reason to believe that they are related in any way,” said 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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