Women and children — forward: the face of crime is changing in Sweden
The Scandinavian kingdom, whose very name was once synonymous with a comfortable and peaceful life, is gradually turning into a criminal den. The outrages of ethnic gangs in Sweden have long been no surprise to anyone. Gradually, the Swedes got used to the massive use of women and children by bandits, who are actively recruited to participate in the criminal trade. This was a natural result of the activities of several previous governments, which turned the kingdom into a "gateway" for migrants. Details can be found in the Izvestia article.
Criminal young ladies
As you know, Sweden, which was considered one of the safest and most peaceful EU countries twenty years ago, has been rapidly criminalized. However, the underworld that is growing like a tumor in the Scandinavian kingdom is mostly Swedish in name only, because it consists mainly of first— and second-generation migrants who came mainly from the Middle East. Migrant gangs are engaged in drug trafficking, racketeering, theft and divide spheres of influence — there are regular shootings and explosions on the streets of Swedish cities. Bandits are already cramped in Sweden, and they are actively infiltrating neighboring countries from there.
According to a recent sociological survey, 54% of the Swedish population is afraid of criminals — 11 years ago, in 2014, this figure was 28%. This fear is distributed unevenly. "Women are significantly more likely than men to say that they completely refuse to go out in the evening," according to a report by the State Council for the Prevention of Crime (Brå). At the same time, however, the opposite trend has recently been observed — an increasingly noticeable involvement of women and girls living in Sweden in crime.
This sensitive aspect has attracted the attention of the press, the public, and, more recently, the government, which has commissioned Brå to prepare a report on the topic. A statistical summary was compiled there, from which it follows that out of 62 thousand people who are somehow connected with gangs operating in Sweden, 10 thousand are women. At the same time, two thirds of them became victims of crimes themselves, and then entered a crooked path. "Girls are often both victims and criminals," says Katarina Thulin, head of the Brå research group. Brå experts interviewed 31 young girls who had been convicted of some kind of criminal activity. From these conversations, they found out that women most often choose criminal "professions" such as drug trafficking, fraud and money laundering. Of course, there are many who go into prostitution.
However, female individuals rarely earn a lot of money from illegal fishing. After all, they, as a rule, do not run criminal businesses, but only "work" in support, performing various secondary functions. Nevertheless, mafiosi value female assistants, as they tend to arouse less suspicion from law enforcement officers due to their gender. One of the girls interviewed by Brå experts told how she got on the path of breaking the law: "When my boyfriend was stressed and didn't know what to do, I asked how I could help." The girl's boyfriend openly told her that he was a bandit. "And then I helped him deal with his problems. And suddenly I was involved in absolutely everything," says the criminal's passion.
The Aftonbladet publication provides a specific example of a woman who turned out to be the "heroine" of a crime report. One day, police officers were called to one of the districts of the city of Vekshe. There, the patrolmen encountered an aggressive one-legged person brandishing a pistol and an axe. She refused to drop her weapon and pointed it at the guards, who immediately shot her in the only leg. After that, it turned out that her gun was a toy. The victim was hospitalized, and she was treated at the hospital. The police also "punched" the detainee through the database and found out that she had already been their "client" in February 2017.
At that time, the incident occurred in the town of Gnesta. The woman (at that time she was still bipedal) called 112 herself. "I will stab a policeman and end up in prison," the flighty person told the emergency services operator. When the police arrived at the specified address, she brandished knives and flatly refused to drop them. It was then that one of the guards shot her in the leg for the first time, and the wound turned out to be so serious that the limb had to be amputated. At that time, the woman was sentenced to probation and fined for threatening the police. The sentence could have been more serious, but experts found out that she had been drinking alcohol at the time of the incident and was apparently suffering from psychosis. And here is the second such case, which "looped" the story and turned it into a tragicomedy. "She is a fighter and has already, one might say, got back on her feet. Considering the circumstances, everything went well this time," said Mikael Gonzalez, the lawyer of the one—legged woman, not without irony.
Killer kids
Another, even more important Swedish problem related to the criminal world is the active involvement of minors in it. Recently, fresh data on young criminals was released in Sweden: as of August this year, 254 teenagers were held in Swedish closed institutions for such a contingent, which is five times more than in 2022, when there were only 57 of them. For comparison, last year 149 young criminals were imprisoned in Sweden, that is There is a rapidly growing number of them.
In this regard, the State Council for Compulsory Care (SiS) is sounding the alarm: it warns that the country needs to increase the number of places in closed institutions for juvenile offenders. "It's incredible: in two and a half years, the number of children and young people serving sentences has increased almost fivefold. More than 40% of them have committed murder, attempted murder or manslaughter," complains Elisabeth Objornsen Hollmark, CEO of SiS.
Of particular concern is the fact that Swedish criminals are increasingly attracting children as hired killers. Bandits tell young people that they are not in danger of anything particularly terrible, because in Sweden the penalties for serious crimes if the culprit turns out to be a child are significantly mitigated. And as a result, the number of underage residents of the kingdom suspected of planning a murder has increased dramatically recently. According to the prosecutor's office, 127 people under the age of 15 were suspected of this from January to September of this year. By the way, during the same period in 2022, only 14 teenagers were suspected of such things.
Currently, the Swedish media regularly publishes news related to teenagers with firearms. One of the most recent cases of this kind took place in the city of Yevla, in the center of which machine gun fire was heard. Fortunately, the shooter did not kill anyone, and the three wounded found shelter in a nearby restaurant. "It's terrible. Six people were shot at once a few meters away from me," an eyewitness complained. The shooter turned out to be a 13-year-old teenager: due to his inexperience with weapons, the case was limited to injuries, not deaths. "The boy was arrested pretty soon after the incident. He is the one who is suspected of attempted murder," the police said. The detained young man was interrogated, and his parents' house was searched. It turned out that the boy had been recruited by one of the gangs. So far, the teenager has been placed in the care of social services.
The topic has reached an international level — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted a video on a social network in which he talks about how Swedish criminal gangs involve underage girls in violent acts. Referring to an article in the German edition of Die Welt, Orban claims that in 2024, more than 280 girls in the Scandinavian kingdom were arrested for murder. "The mafia uses them to shoot people in the head: because teenagers in Sweden cannot be convicted. Sweden has gone out of civilization, and all that remains for the country is barbarism. At the same time, the Swedes are trying to teach everyone lessons about the principles of the rule of law," Orban is outraged.
However, Orban made an inaccuracy. The Die Welt article does cite a figure of 280, but it includes girls between the ages of 15 and 17, who were investigated in Sweden in 2024 for committing not only murders, but also other violent crimes. However, it is not specified how many of these 280 cases are related specifically to organized crime. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson protested: "This is a hair-raising lie." However, the incident in Yevla gave Orban the opportunity to have the last word. "Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and the people of Sweden, in connection with the terrible shooting in Yevla. We are praying for the victims, their families, parents and all Swedes seeking safety in their cities," the Hungarian leader wrote on the social network.
Source of infection
The problem of juvenile delinquency has crossed the borders of Sweden and is spreading to neighboring countries, where children have also begun to be recruited as hired killers. "To be honest, it all came from Sweden," says Andy Kraag, a Dutchman who heads Europol's center for combating serious crimes and organized crime. Kraag is part of a task force whose mission is to combat the growing threat from young contract killers. He compares what is happening to a rapidly spreading forest fire. According to him, although the hiring of teenagers by criminals has long been commonplace in Sweden, this trend has appeared recently in Europe. When it became impossible to turn a blind eye to this phenomenon, Sweden itself proposed creating a joint task force within Europol to combat the involvement of teenagers in criminal activities.
Theodor Smedius of the Swedish National Operational Police Agency (NOA) says that if there were only isolated cases before when gangs hired teenagers as killers, now there are thousands of them. "This is no longer a local problem. It has become a whole criminal industry," he testifies. To combat this phenomenon, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has developed a draft law providing for lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 13 years (for serious crimes). The document also prescribes a gradual reduction in allowances for young people and minors who have committed criminal offenses: their complete abolition for persons aged 18 to 21 years and restrictions for those aged 15 to 17 years. Stricter parole rules will also come into force in Sweden on January 1.
Political analyst Maxim Reva reminded Izvestia that, despite Sweden's huge internal problems, its government still considers its main task to support the Kiev regime. "As you know, Stockholm recently promised Kiev large-scale supplies of Gripen E fighter jets. At the same time, Sweden itself continues to suffer from economic problems, falling living standards, an influx of migrants who do not want to integrate, and an increase in street crime. But Kristersson's government doesn't seem interested in resolving these issues. Therefore, the number of Swedes who are afraid to go out at night will grow," the political scientist noted.
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