Criminal Gang Activity

Ten criminals waiting to take the place of every one arrested, an officer said who quit after realising his job has become pointless.

A group of people, said to speak little Swedish and linked to criminal gangs, ousted a local politician who had been tough on gang crime. 

The Stockholm region, a formerly relatively peaceful area, saw five major violent incidents Thursday, including bombings and shootings.

A police officer has claimed that eight in ten arrested in Stockholm are children as violent gang crime surges.

A man in Marseille is just the latest victim of gun violence as the city suffers gang violence executed with illegal Kalashnikov rifles. 

Swedish police are sounding the alarm over the number of very young children that are being recruited and exploited by the country’s criminal gangs, including a child as young as nine who was caught in possession of a Glock pistol.

A Swedish lawyer has been convicted by a court in Halmstad for tampering with evidence by planting a deactivated firearm to help get his client acquitted in a shooting case.

A Dutch court is examining evidence of the fatal shooting of crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, who was brazenly gunned down almost a year ago.

Swedish police have claimed that their country has become a major international transit hub for illegal drugs, with large amounts of drugs smuggled in and distributed across Scandinavia and beyond.

Violent riots continued over the weekend in Swedish cities in reaction to anti-Islam Qu’ran-burning activists, with three people shot and injured by police in Norrköping and a school set on fire in Malmo. Since Thursday, Sweden has seen rioting across several

Expert Gunnar Appelgren has warned Sweden could be in for a “terrible year” fatal shootings could break records if current trends continue. 

Frederik Andersson, a member of the Civic Collection party, has died as a result of gunshot wounds he received at a gym in central Stockholm earlier this week as he attempted to stop a gunman from shooting another man.

A shooting this week in the city of Linköping was the 47th fatal shooting so far this year, matching Sweden’s record-high number of shootings that took place in 2020.

Sweden’s new Minister of Culture Jeanette Gustafsdotter says she wants to investigate the links between gangster rap music and gang crime to see if the music leads to gang activity.

Twelve Nigerian men and two women were sentenced between two and nine years by a French court for trafficking at least forty women for sex, often using witchcraft and voodoo beliefs to control their victims.

A criminal gang leader deported to Afghanistan in 2017 has threatened German police, stating that he has a small army of 100 Afghans set for deportation he could incite against them.

An explosion at an apartment building in the Swedish city of Gothenburg has left 23 people injured, four of them seriously, with some theorising the bombing may have links to gang crime.

Mark Rutte has been given extra security after threats of potential kidnapping or an attack have surfaced from organised criminal gangs. 

Despite being shot in gang-related violence, a man was caught and arrested for dealing drugs from his hospital bed by police. 

Europol has warned of a growing trend of criminal gangs selling counterfeit Wuhan coronavirus medical certificates at European airports.

Criminal gangs have swept through so much of the educational system in England that staff at one-third of the country’s secondary schools believe gangs have groomed pupils, a report has found.

A 12-year-old Swedish girl was killed over the weekend while walking her dog by alleged gang members as one criminologist has warned Sweden is becoming like the “Wild West”.

German officials have rejected an asylum request from a Lebanese man who was convicted of drug dealing and deported but then returned to Germany.

HOUSTON, Texas — Five men who police say are well-documented gang members teamed up to allegedly burglarize a pharmacy located on the city’s southwest side. Houston Police Department officers say they caught the group leaving the area of the burglary and they were carrying tools commonly used for such jobs.