Kripos has had a “liaison” in Sweden since before the summer, Trond Bruen Olsen in Kripos told news. More precisely at the National Operative Department in Stockholm, says Olsen, who is section leader at the Organized Crime Section in Kripos. – The liaison must ensure close and effective cooperation in investigations that go across borders. In addition to ensuring that information exchange takes place effectively both ways. The scheme has been an effective channel between the Norwegian and Swedish police, he says to news Overview of serious crime in Copenhagen this summer, for which Swedish youths are targeted. Now the Danish Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard, has also decided to send police officers to Sweden. – So that we can always be on the ball on intelligence from the Swedish gang milieu, says the minister from the Social Democratic party. The background is that Danish police have in the last week charged two Swedish 17-year-olds and a Swedish 16-year-old with attempted murder after three separate shooting episodes. Earlier this summer, there were also several serious criminal incidents involving young Swedes in Denmark, writes DR. Minister of Justice in Denmark Peter Hummelgaard (SD). Photo: DR Young Swedes arrested for attempted murder and others in Denmark this summer On Monday 6 August, Danish police charged a 17-year-old Swede with attempted murder after a shooting in Copenhagen. On 1 August, another 17-year-old Swedish boy was detained after a shooting in Kolding. On the same day, a 16-year-old Swede was detained after a shooting incident in Nørrebro in Copenhagen. In July, three Swedes, two of them nineteen years old, were detained in Denmark for carrying 9mm Glock pistols. In June, another 19-year-old was remanded in Swedish custody for blowing up a Danish jewelery shop with a hand grenade. He is charged with participating in, or inciting, gang conflict. In the same month, two Swedes aged 15 and 16 were remanded in custody for attempted murder of members of a Danish motorcycle gang. Source: Danmarks radio Swedish “conditions” Last week warned the head of Denmark’s special crime unit. Torben Svarrer, about Danish gangs paying Swedish youths to do “muck jobs for them”. With the help of “certain social media”, Danish criminals offer Swedish youths 200,000 Danish kroner and more to do various tasks, writes DR. – What we have seen now is attempted murder. But in Sweden there have been murders. Some of the same channels are used, says Svarrer Torben Svarrer, leading police inspector, NSK Photo: DR Last year, gang recruitment of minors was criminalized in Sweden. The background is that boys well into their teens were used by the gangs to carry out murders, attempted murders, explosions and weapons offences, writes NTB. Last autumn, SVT reported a sharp increase in young offenders suspected of serious violence in Sweden: Only up to 31 August last year, there were 31 cases in which children under the age of 15 were suspected of participation in murder, attempted murder or the preparation of murder in Sweden. “This was more than in the whole of 2022, when there were 23 cases. Ten years ago there were 4 cases”, writes SVT. A 19-year-old Swede was charged in June with exploding a hand grenade in Valby in Denmark as part of a gang conflict. Photo: Steven Knap / Ritzau Scanpix / NTB Kripos expects Swedish “order force” in Norway news has asked Kripos if they think Norwegian gang criminals will also hire Swedish minors to kill people in this country. Kripos does not answer this directly. But points out that there have already been several cases where Swedish criminals have exercised violence in Norway. – Both on orders from Norwegian criminals and as part of their own business, says Trond Bruen Olsen. According to the police’s threat assessment for 2024, we can expect more of this. “It is likely that Swedish criminals will commit violence in Norway, either on order or as part of their own criminal enterprise,” it says. news has also asked how Norwegian police cooperate with their Swedish and Danish colleagues. Olsen replies that they are not directly involved in the Danish investigations mentioned in this case, but he underlines the importance of international cooperation against criminal networks. – This is not a national problem. These networks operate in several countries. There are masterminds abroad who control much of the criminal value chain here in Norway, says section leader Olsen. Published 08/08/2024, at 11.33
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