Denmark and Sweden vow to hunt down gang leaders who hire minors to kill from abroad

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Denmark and Sweden vow to hunt down gang leaders who hire minors to ***** from abroad

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Danish and Swedish justice ministers vowed Wednesday to go after organized ****** leaders abroad, whom they say have been hiring teenagers in Sweden to carry out deadly shootings in Denmark.

Denmark’s Peter Hummelgaard has said that gangs have hired young Swedes to commit ******* in Denmark

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since April, in part because Swedish law imposes lighter penalties for minors who commit serious *******.

“Several of the people who orchestrate this reckless and violent ****** are hiding under warmer skies, and of course this is completely unacceptable,” Hummelgaard told a press conference Wednesday after a meeting with his Swedish counterpart Gunnar Strömmer in Copenhagen. He said they were “often in the greater Middle East” but didn’t name any specific country.

One of Sweden’s two major gangs is led by a Swedish-Turkish dual national who lives in Turkey, which refuses to extradite its own citizens.

Swedish and Danish media say that gang is involved in a deadly feud with one of the main ********* gangs in Denmark —

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which was banned in 2021.

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for years, while in Denmark, police have also seen ********* between gangs but on a lesser scale.

Last year, Swedish police noted an increase in the number of teenagers under 18 who were recruited to carry out killings for hire because they do not face the same police controls as adults and are often shielded from prosecution.

Strömmer said that Sweden would tighten its laws, noting that minors who are convicted of ******* in Sweden are placed in juvenile facilities, while they can face up to 16 years in prison in Denmark.

The two also vowed to ****** down on online gang activity, with Strömmer saying that “leading figures in these ********* networks order murders and bombings totally out in the open online.”

Earlier, Hummelgaard has said that solutions could include changing Danish law to allow facial recognition technology, and deploying better software to monitor encrypted messages.

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