14-year-old girl prepared murder in Denmark

Published 11 October 2024 at 18.28

Domestic. In recent months, several Swedish youths have traveled to Denmark to commit serious crimes. In July, Swedish police prevented a murder. Today, charges are brought in the case, which is the first connected to Denmark to be prosecuted.

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The charges are brought against two 16-year-old boys. One is suspected of preparation for murder and branding for murder and the other boy is suspected of aiding and abetting preparation for murder.

The evidence case against a 14-year-old girl is being brought for aiding and abetting the same crime and preparing for murder for his own part.

The police are preventing more and more serious violent crimes and on July 8 this year the main accused boy was arrested at Central Station in Stockholm when he would take the train to Malmö and then on to Denmark to shoot a person.

The investigation shows that the boy received murder instructions through the Signal app from an instigator.

The other accused 16-year-old was arrested on the same day as the main accused. According to the investigation, he has, among other things, bought train tickets for the shooter.

The 14-year-old girl was arrested in Malmö two days later. She also had plans to commit a violent crime which was prevented by the police.

– We see this type of approach and planning of crimes within the Swedish police every week and the perpetrators are now almost exclusively children and young people, says Erik Lindblad , national operations manager.

Network criminals seek out children and young people all over the country. They begin what can be described as a grooming process in social media. The contacts then move to encrypted chats where the missions are planned in more detail.

– It is the responsibility of the entire adult world to inform themselves about current criminal strategies and to be assertive and ask questions to children and young people about their contacts in digital environments, which accounts they follow, keep track of their bank accounts and more and call the police if something is not right, says Erik Lindblad on the police's website.

The police see that many children and young people today consciously and actively participate in crime planning and have different types of roles to enable acts of violence, where some act as shooters and others assist financially and with booking means of transportation to the crime scene. Young people also appear as instigators of serious crimes where they recruit individuals younger than themselves to commit crimes.

– The consequences for young people of stepping into crime and taking on violent missions can be numerous but it never ends well , says Erik Lindblad, national operations leader.

– Sooner or later the young people are arrested by the police, either before a planned crime or after a crime has been committed. Then a prison sentence or closed youth care awaits. If you also manage to cross Sweden's borders and are arrested in another country, the criminal consequences can be harsher. We also know that this type of violent assignment is associated with danger to life, both for the young people themselves and their relatives if, for example, backs out of a mission or completes a mission and gets the opposing side behind them. It can mean a death sentence, says Erik Lindblad.