Sweden’s teen hitmen are on the rise

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/06/09/sweden-s-teen-hitmen-are-on-the-rise_6742139_4.html

by LeMonde_en

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  2. **Recruited via social media, adolescents under the age of 15 are taken in by gangs to kill for money. Many of these young people previously had no connection to organized crime.**

    “Don’t take out any mothers (…). Just take the men. The fathers, the brothers and him. Take as many as you can.” According to an investigative report seen by *Le Monde*, this message was sent to Samir (names have been changed) late in the evening on August 10, 2024. He was on his way to Skurup, a residential town in southern Sweden, where he is suspected of having shot and killed Gustav Malmquist, a 55-year-old financial adviser, in his living room. The victim’s three sons survived. The two youngest, aged 16 and 19, had just left their father’s home to go to their mother’s. The oldest, 21, whose head had been put up for a bounty by the Foxtrot gang – one of Sweden’s most violent – was in preventive detention.

    Since April 30, four 15-year-olds have been on trial, behind closed doors, in a Malmö court for the murder of the father, as well as for the attempted murder of his sons. Despite overwhelming evidence, they have denied the charges. Fourteen years old at the time, they have since been placed in foster care. Before August 10, 2024, none had ever met the victim or his sons, and of the four perpetrators, only one was known to police.

    How did they come to plan and carry out a murder? According to investigators, the four teenagers are among a growing number of young people in this country of 10 million who respond to ads posted by gangs on social media and become contract killers. They are ready to kill or set off a bomb in exchange for tens of thousands of kronor, in a process former police officer Christoffer Bohman described as “radicalization.”

    This trend has been expanding, and is all the more striking because “crime − and especially crimes committed by youth − has been declining in Sweden,” said Henrik Angerbrandt, an investigator with the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. There are two exceptions: firearms offenses and homicides. The number of suspects under 15 in murder cases rose from 27 in 2022 to 92 in 2023 and to 141 in 2024. Among 15 to 17 year olds, 91 were convicted of murder or attempted murder in 2024 − seven times more than in 2022.

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  6. Those pesky Swedish teens, Sven and Karl are up to no good these days. 

  7. I swear the comments under anything related to Sweden and crime are so predictable and generic at this point, you could probably ask an AI to write them and it’d come up with like half the shit that’s in this thread after 40 minutes already.

  8. Underaged teens seem to be increasingly popular among criminal organisations throughout Europe. Small amounts of money already seem huge to them, they’re not thinking about consequences of their actions and juvenile law means they’re back on the street in no time which serves as proof to other teens that these crimes are risk-free.

  9. Swede here: even after all you’ve heard, it’s so much worse.

  11. We all know the problem was in large part imported.

    You get a large influx of migrants that will obviously have a more difficult start due to not having a generational wealth.

    People tend to stick to their own so some form of segregation naturally arises. You can’t force people to like each other or socialize.

    The newcomers start having a grudge against the locals, crime was always a fast way of generating income and wealth.

    Youngsters are the easiest to recruit and have limited long term perception abilities.

  13. I don’t understand, people from my country (which is not even close to Sweden) told me that immigrants are not a problem anymore, that we are just all being racist, crime is in decline. Well, well…

    Something has to be done

  14. It must be those blonde and blue eyed teens you find all over Malmö?

  15. Malmö isn’t the city it used to be, that’s for sure.

  16. UK has this witth drug dealers. The teens are recruited because they can’t really be charged if they are caught, they get lots of money from the gangs. Its basically a no loser situation

    In fact it actually works out better for them if they are caught, the State basically gives juvenile criminals free training in a skilled trade, it’s practically a ‘reward’ for bad behaviour and often guaranteed jobs as well. I’m sad I never realised as a teenager all I had to do was be a delinquent and the State would give me free training and well paid job at the nd of it.

  17. Sweden needs some sort of strict RICO laws, so that whole gang gets put away for the crime committed.

  19. there were people that warned this would happen 10+ years ago… people called them ‚populists‘ and sometimes even ‚nazis‘

  20. Are these the same ones that are the cause for the rise in rapes as well?

  21. The politicians will never be forgiven for what they have done to this country. We need remigration there is no other way.

  22. Teen Hitmen sounds like a name of a TV series by CW.

  24. €20.000 for a murder at 15, you cant be tried as an adult so you get 2 years at a juvenile detention center, you are free at 17 with €20.000 in savings.

  25. They are sending these guys to commit murders abroad now. Some were arrested in Denmark recently, having traveled to do a hit for their boss in Sweden. This shit is out of hand already!

    Only solution is to trial these kids as adults, meaning that the gangs will be less inclined to take them in. And then Sweden needs to close its borders for the next 50 years 👊

  27. > “Don’t take out any mothers (…). Just take the men. The fathers, the brothers and him. Take as many as you can.”

    Read the first sentence. Immediately came to conclusion about the identity of the attackers.
    Same shit happened in terrorist attack on tourist in India. It’s a thing in their religion.

  31. I wonder if the Swede’s miss the days they were complaining about violent Finnish immigrants

  32. My proposition to fix the immigration issue in western countries.

    Stop giving visa’s to work and live to undesired nationalitities. And of course, stop giving asylum to anyone in the world. Favor immigration from people that are culturally and geographically close.

    Undesired immigration means = those with customs that differ, distant geography, different religion or higher crime rate. There is no shame on deciding based on those factors.

    Limit immigration to quotas by nationalities. The more distant geographically and culturally, the higher the studies, professional experience and money they need to bring, and the more limited quota to immigrate in a given year.

    For example:
    – only 100 people from country X can immigrate in a given year, while from neighbouring country Y it’s 5000 because they are closer culturally and easier to integrate).

    Freeze giving nationality to foreigners for now.

  35. Again those Olafs, Bjorns and their leader Lars-Kristian

  36. I prefer not to speak. If I speak, I am in trouble

  39. Europeans would rather have their entire civilization die than offend the sensibilities of women or foreigners.

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