This is written by the Swedish national broadcaster SVT. Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer in Sweden says they are now mobilizing preventive work against organized crime. The meeting will take place at the beginning of next week, writes SVT. – We want to ensure that all relevant actors have the same picture of the situation, so that there is a common force in the measures. This is what the Minister of Justice says to the news agency TT, according to Expressen. The Council against Organized Crime in Sweden will in particular discuss how they can prevent children and young people from being recruited into criminal gangs. The council was established in December last year. The Chief of the National Police in Sweden has previously stated that they believe that three people are incorporated into a gang every day. Seven murders in ten days Recently, Sweden, especially Stockholm and Uppsala, has been characterized by several murders and shooting incidents. Seven people have been shot and killed in ten days. Swedish media write that most of the incidents can be linked to the criminal network Foxtrot. The conflict is said to have escalated last week, when several Swedish citizens fired shots at other Swedes in the big city of Istanbul in Turkey, according to Swedish media. Then the mother of a key Foxtrot gang member was shot and killed in her own home. The police feared bloodbath and revenge actions after the murder. Internal conflict According to the Swedish media, there is an internal conflict between members of the Foxtrot network which has caused gang violence to increase in recent weeks. Among other things, they must disagree on whether it is right to recruit children into the gang. This has happened in Sweden just this week: On Monday morning, a 13-year-old boy was found dead in a wooded area south of Stockholm. The case is being investigated as a possible murder. On Tuesday morning, a man in his 20s was shot in a stairwell in Uppsala. He later died from his injuries. On the night of Wednesday, shots were fired at a home in Stenhagen in Uppsala. Shots were also fired in the same area on Saturday. And on Wednesday evening, a man in his 20s was killed in the Vasastan district in central Stockholm. On the night of Friday, a teenager died after he was found shot in Västertorp in Stockholm on Thursday evening. On Saturday evening, a man was shot and killed in Vällingby in Stockholm. On the night of Sunday, a man was shot in Jönköping. He is alive but seriously injured. – New borders are crossed The events of recent weeks have caught the attention of Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. He believes the gangs are crossing new boundaries with their revenge actions. NTB writes: – When children are shot to death, when mothers are attacked, when people who, as far as we know, are completely innocent, are shot in the gangs’ ongoing revenge actions – then I believe that new boundaries have been crossed, he said earlier this the week. Listen to Uppdatert’s episode about the Foxtrot network’s leader, “The Kurdish Fox”:
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