Criminal gangs in Sweden are increasingly recruiting young teens online to undertake deadly hit jobs, partially because they ...

These are not one-off instances in Sweden. The land of the mild-mannered is witnessing frequent gang wars in its cities of Gothenburg, Malmo and Stockholm. Here, flats are blown into smithereens ...

Sweden is currently grappling with a wave of gang crime involving teenagers, hired for offences ranging from spying and vandalism to bombings and murder. In an attempt to get a grip on the crisis ...

Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer (centre right) and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at a press conference on Thursday about the month's record number of gang blasts. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT With ...

Last year gang expert Diamant Salihu told me: “There’s a consensus now that Sweden has failed with integration.” Yet the country’s gun chaos has seeped into all sections of society.

03/01/2025 March 1, 2025 Criminal gangs in Sweden are increasingly recruiting young teens online to undertake deadly hit jobs, partially because they cannot be prosecuted as adults. In the city of ...

Within a day four more had rocked the capital. Swedish gangs have been setting off bombs for years, but the scale of recent attacks is unprecedented. There were over 30 in January, and police say ...

Gangs in Sweden are recruiting children for hit jobs. Two such cases have played out in the small city of Karlskoga. Two pizzerias in Monza, Italy, only employ people with autism spectrum disorder ...

Swedish government backs €800 billion plan to rearm Europe, trial begins into brutal murder of two teenagers, and Swedish ...

Salim Iskef fled Syria - where Islamic State militants had killed his father - for Sweden, only to be gunned down this week by an unemployed Swedish man with no apparent ideological motive.

Sweden has a high level of gun ownership by European standards, mainly linked to hunting, though it is much lower than in the United States. A wave of gang crime in recent years has also ...