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Teenager remanded over Stockholm killing

A 17-year-old boy has been remanded into custody on suspicion of having shot to death a 22-year-old man in central Stockholm on Friday evening.

Published: 28 November 2010 16:17 CET

The teenager was remanded into custody by Stockholm district court on suspicion of murder after the killing of the man on the open street in the Kungsholmen area of the city.

He is being held on the highest grade of suspicion, probable cause.

“He is down and is reflecting on his situation,” the teenager’s lawyer Ola Salomonsson said.

Salomonsson said that the boy opposed the basis on the remand order but accepted the grade of suspicion levelled against him.

“He has conceded probable cause for the statement, I don’t want to say it in any other way.”

This is not the same as either a denial nor a confession, he underlined.

The 22-year-old man was shot and killed while sitting in a car parked outside of a restaurant on Scheelegatan in the Kungsholmen area of central Stockholm, shortly before 6.20pm.

Police received an alarm almost immediately and the teenage suspect was arrested in the vicinity of the crime scene, which is close to the main police station.

The suspected murder weapon was recovered nearby.

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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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