Swedish gangs recruiting kids as contract killers

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 a surge in gang shootings and bombings across the country in recent years, linked to score-settling and battles to control the drug market. The number of murder-related cases in Sweden where a suspect is under the age of 15 rose from 31 in the first eight months of 2023 to 102 in the same period this year, according to the Prosecution Authority.