"Bro, I can't wait for my first dead body," wrote an 11-year-old boy on Instagram in Sweden, where gangs recruit children too young to be prosecuted as contract killers on chat apps.
A crisis has erupted in Sweden after ‘assassin’ children as young as 11 are being recruited to carry out contract killings. Gang-related killings have surged in Sweden in recent years – and ...
He is one among dozens of child contract killers in Sweden, recruited by gang middle-men on social media who pay as much as 150,000 kroner (£13,000) per job. The number of murder cases involving ...
Fernando is 14, a teenage assassin who was playing a Fifa video game in his youth club when the orders arrived by text. He is one among dozens of child contract killers in Sweden, recruited by gang ...
In the gang war that is shaking Sweden, young people are being recruited as hitmen via encrypted messaging, a method used by criminal organisations to evade the police. Sweden has struggled to rein in ...