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Teenage guns for hire: Swedish gangs targeting Israeli interests

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73% Informative

A 13-year-old boy fired shots outside the offices of Israeli tech firm Elbit Systems in Gothenburg .

Earlier this month , Israel ’s embassies were targeted both in Sweden and Denmark .

Many of the suspects have been teenagers, and some as young as 13 and 14 .

An estimated 14,000 people in Sweden are caught up in criminal gangs.

Criminology specialist David Sausdal of Lund University , Sweden , says it has become increasingly difficult to monitor networks as they have become fragmented online, dragging people into a gang gig-economy’ Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer has spoken of three parallel threats to Sweden ’s security.

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73

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69

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68

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formal

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English

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54

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likely offensive

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short-lived

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