13-year-old boy suspected of attempted murder but cannot be arrested

"The phenomenon of hiring young people to carry out serious violent crimes is a worrying development that the police see everywhere across the country," the spokesman for the police said.

WORLD AUGUST 14. 2024 16:14

On Sunday evening around 6 pm, the police were alerted after several loud bangs were heard in Malmo. Arriving at the scene, they found a 25-year-old man with a gunshot wound. The person taken into custody on suspicion of the shooting is a 13-year-old boy, who cannot be arrested due his age, and has been transferred to the social services.

The assaulted man was shot in the leg and the police immediately started a chase. A motorcycle officer arrested the boy with a loaded gun on him, close to the scene. Later he was found to be only 13 years old.

The arrest was cancelled and the 13-year-old boy was handed over to the social services, said Nils Norling, spokesman for the Malmo police. He added that the victim’s injuries are serious but not life-threatening.

„The phenomenon of hiring young people to carry out serious violent crimes is a worrying development that the police see everywhere across the country,” said Norling.

This shooting was the eleventh staged in Malmo this year.

As also reported by V4NA, the rising number of juvenile offenders is becoming increasingly worrying – and not only in Sweden. Sweden’s misguided migration policy is now seriously affecting neighbouring countries, where they certainly do not want the same situation that Swedish politicians have created, the Swedish Samnytt news portal writes.

Denmark has reintroduced border controls with Sweden in a bid to keep migrant gangs out, and Norway also has fears that criminal gangs from Sweden will recruit new gang members there – even very young ones who are not punishable.

On Monday, the Danish government held an extraordinary meeting attended by the Danish National Police Chief Thorkild Fogde, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard. Hummelgaard told Danish media that he was „very, very angry” about the developments, which he described as „frightening”.

„Of course we will put pressure on Sweden to take responsibility for these things,”

he said.

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crime, sweden, youth