Paid murderers 15: Family recruited teenagers to kill

Gangs from it spread their boats across Europe and even use as hired killers. Spanish police destroyed a gang whose members were from Sweden but were based on the eastern city of Alicante, which allegedly recruited Swedish and Danish teenagers to kill as . Police announced on Wednesday that they arrested a married couple of Swedes and their 15-year-old son, who recruited other teenagers through the Telegram app to commit murders. The three are also charged with trafficking in weapons and drugs and money laundering. The gang was dislocated before any murder was committed, a police spokesman said. In early November, Swedish prosecutors in absentia sentenced one of the three – their identities have not been made public – as suspects of attempted homicide, preparation for murder and crimes related to arms possession in Sweden, Denmark and Spain. The alleged crimes occurred in the spring and summer of 2024, prosecutors said. Sweden is facing an explosion of organised crime spreading throughout Europe. In August, Denmark urged Sweden to take more measures to stop gang cross-border violence and stop armed Swedish teenagers acting as “child soldiers”. The Swedish couple’s 15-year-old son played a key role in recruiting and paying other teenagers, police said. The chronicle The investigation began in May after police arrested a Swedish teenager in Benalmanena, a town near Malaga, who had been recruited by the gang to kill a member of a rival motorcycle gang, police said. The teenager was given an assault rifle and an escape plan, but was arrested before he could carry out the murder. As part of a coordinated operation, Danish police also arrested two Swedish teenagers in May who had traveled to Denmark in order to commit murders, Spanish police said. Police stressed that her investigation also revealed a large criminal network active between Sweden and Eastern European countries.