16-year-old Vida Jafari (right) and 17-year-old Viona Toomis are pictured in the neighbourhood of Baronbackarna in Örebro. Sweden’s gang crime is organised and complex with gang leaders operating from abroad through intermediaries who use encrypted messaging sites like Telegram, Snapchat and Signal to recruit teens under 15, the age of criminal responsibility. — AFP
ÖREBRO, Sweden: “Bro, I can’t wait for my first dead body,” wrote an 11-year-old boy on Instagram in Sweden, where gangs recruit children too young to be prosecuted as contract killers on chat apps.
“Stay motivated, it’ll come,” answered his 19-year-old contact.
