Comment on Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood"

mumblerfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

What I wrote in the cross post:

Some context not in the article

Some 280 girls aged between 15 and 17 were charged with murder, manslaughter or other violent crimes last year

That “other violent crimes” appears to do some very heavy lifting. There are about 40 deaths a year in total in the criminal mileu. Unless I’m interpreting the data wrong

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[Gangs] are even reported to have infiltrated Sweden’s welfare sector, local politics, legal and education systems, and juvenile detention care.

Yes, because liberals and conservatives sold everything. They sold it to friends, family, donors, who in turn sell it to gangs.

The Swedish government has proposed new legislation that would allow police to wiretap children under the age of 15 in an attempt to curb the violence

Not only that, children will also now be going to prison in Sweden.

[…] on encrypted messaging sites.

Ah, yes. The head of the Swedish police said in an interview the other day that Signal have no other use than recruiting for assassinations. If you see someone using it, you should call the police.

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