Would-be criminals are quickly recruited in the digital space, and assassinations are advertised on social media and mobile apps. It's a lot of money, you can earn up to a million crowns with it.

A gang-raped girl was presumably chopped into kebabs and now the investigation into the case is being restarted, wrote the Swedish-language Fria Tidel . The news portal also published an article about the fact that the number of children under the age of 15 who are suspected of participating in attempted murder has more than tripled compared to last year, citing the latest data from the prosecutor's office.

Until July of this year, no less than 93 children under the age of fifteen were suspected in such cases, while in the same period of 2023 only 26 people were suspected, SVT announced.

According to the Swedish police, the recruitment of these so-called "child pedagogues" is now taking place at a high rate through social media and encrypted applications.

My opinion is that this is a conscious strategy by our criminal networks. Extremely efficient and brutal

- said Hanna Paradis, an employee of the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish police, to SVT. According to Hanna Paradis, nowadays they are increasingly recruiting "ordinary young people who go to school, do leisure activities and live at home", so they are unknown to the police.

"It's a nightmare," said of the growing number of young people who want to kill. He put it like this:

the situation with us is that the children themselves are looking for murderous work. There is nothing like it in modern times.

Carin Götblad has been fighting against the growth of gang crime for a long time, and according to her experience, more and more ordinary, average, well-to-do children are involved in it. He added that about two hundred violent crimes were prevented last year.

Would-be criminals are quickly recruited in the digital space, with assassinations advertised on social media and apps like Telegram. It's a lot of money, you can earn up to a million crowns with it. True, the risk is also high.

- Someone may think that this is a large sum of money, but the risk you expose yourself to, the target you become with your family, will ruin your whole life. So it's not that much money anymore - warned Hanna Paradis. Prosecutor Lisa Dos Santos emphasized that it is important that children do not have access to these applications, and asked parents to take more responsibility for their children's mobile use.

The full article can be read in Magyar Nemzet

Cover image: Illustration / MTI/EPA/TT News Agency/Per Karlsson