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Teenage refugee shot in the face

A 16-year-old refugee was shot and severely injured in Eslöv, southern Sweden, on Saturday evening at a refugee housing facility.

Published: 16 October 2011 09:55 CEST
Updated: 10 April 2012 13:26 CEST

Skåne police have arrested a 21-year-old man, suspected of attempted murder of the younger boy.

The 21-year-old was arrested just before 4am, on the night between Saturday and Sunday. By then the boy had been taken to Skåne’s University Hospital in Lund.

“We’re classifying it as attempted murder,” Helena Ralmark, press officer at the Skåne police force, confirmed to news agency TT.

The teenager was in serious but stable condition, reported the Skåne police during the night.

A 19-year-old man was first arrested, suspected of being accessory to the attempted murder, after having been identified by witnesses.

The arrested 21-year-old and 19-year-old are both known to the police, as they have both had previous involvement in drug offenses.

According to the police, the 19-year-old was under the influence of drugs when arrested.

Police are still uncertain what caused the shooting and witnesses are currently being questioned about the incident.

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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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