**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.
Those pesky Swedish teens, Sven and Karl are up to no good these days.
Hazer_123 on
Teens that hit men? Are they stupid?
Illustrious-Neat5123 on
Belgium far right parties like MR and NVA are going to oust from welfare 200.000 belgians on 1st January 2026.
I want to say to those mafias that there are plenty of new recruits to ask for some favors in returns of easy money… They also have children 😉
Enjoy !
karimr on
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.
Merdaviglioso on
Are those the same idiots who were telling South European countries to EMBRACE illegal immigration?
Karma works just fine.
HagueHarry on
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.
kingsheperd on
Swede here: even after all you’ve heard, it’s so much worse.
GenerallyDull on
Why are Swedes suddenly doing this kind of thing?
rauho on
*sits with index finger in mouth* WHY IS THE RIGHT WING ON THE RISE?!?!
Professional_Ant4133 on
Deport millions – or perish.
samoStranac on
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.
ehte4 on
Why is it always men?
Stomfa on
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
neuroticmuffins on
It must be those blonde and blue eyed teens you find all over Malmö?
old_Spivey on
Malmö isn’t the city it used to be, that’s for sure.
m0rb33d on
I thought Sweden was a liberal country where people can choose their career paths without being judged
NoRecipe3350 on
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.
VisibleFiction on
Sweden needs some sort of strict RICO laws, so that whole gang gets put away for the crime committed.
Nice-Marsupial1073 on
Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt of Germany: The first muslim guest worker in Europe was a mistake.
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**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.
**Read the full article here:** [**https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/06/09/sweden-s-teen-hitmen-are-on-the-rise_6742139_4.html**](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/06/09/sweden-s-teen-hitmen-are-on-the-rise_6742139_4.html)
What demographic do these “teens” belong to?
Damn teens.
They should be banned.
What is the nationality of those teens?
Those pesky Swedish teens, Sven and Karl are up to no good these days.
Teens that hit men? Are they stupid?
Belgium far right parties like MR and NVA are going to oust from welfare 200.000 belgians on 1st January 2026.
I want to say to those mafias that there are plenty of new recruits to ask for some favors in returns of easy money… They also have children 😉
Enjoy !
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.
Are those the same idiots who were telling South European countries to EMBRACE illegal immigration?
Karma works just fine.
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.
Swede here: even after all you’ve heard, it’s so much worse.
Why are Swedes suddenly doing this kind of thing?
*sits with index finger in mouth* WHY IS THE RIGHT WING ON THE RISE?!?!
Deport millions – or perish.
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.
Why is it always men?
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
It must be those blonde and blue eyed teens you find all over Malmö?
Malmö isn’t the city it used to be, that’s for sure.
I thought Sweden was a liberal country where people can choose their career paths without being judged
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.
Sweden needs some sort of strict RICO laws, so that whole gang gets put away for the crime committed.
Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt of Germany: The first muslim guest worker in Europe was a mistake.
Merkel: Hold my beer.
Consequences: Main title above.
“Sweden’s”