Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele clashed on Wednesday after Petro, a former member of a Marxist terror guerrilla, called Bukele’s “mega prison” for alleged gang members a “concentration camp.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) change to asylum rules that allow foreign nationals, claiming to be fleeing gang violence, to seek refuge in the United States even as Americans in some major cities live with higher crime rates.
Sweden has announced it will be studying the effect of criminality on politics as criminal pressure is becoming a growing problem.
The Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, which has been fiercely critical of President Nayib Bukele and his imposition of de facto martial law to combat gang violence, revealed in an extensive report this weekend that gangs have largely disappeared from many parts of the country, their members imprisoned or abroad fleeing from authorities.
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.
Around 20 per cent of Swedes have claimed that they would feel safer in their country if they had the right to self-defence with a firearm.
An explosion took place in an area in the Stockholm region Thursday morning, marking the 13th explosion Sweden has seen in 26 days.
A teenager has been charged with the death of politician Frederik Andersson outside a gym in Stockholm last year during a gang shooting.
The Stockholm region, a formerly relatively peaceful area, saw five major violent incidents Thursday, including bombings and shootings.
The Swedish government has announced it will be developing a national strategy to tackle surging levels of gang crime.
A man tied to criminal gangs was shot dead in a notroious Swedish no-go zone on Christmas day, as the country sets a fatal shootings record.
Chicago Police Department chief of detectives Brendan Deenihan says seven-year-old Akeem Briscoe was fatally shot as a result of “group on group violence” in an alley near his home.
A man in Marseille is just the latest victim of gun violence as the city suffers gang violence executed with illegal Kalashnikov rifles.
The mother of a 12-year-old shot and killed in the crossfire of a Swedish gang conflict confronted Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, demanding the next Swedish government do more to tackle the growing violence.
Just weeks before next month’s national election, Sweden has already matched its yearly record of fatal shootings.
Dutch prosecutors arrested a 27-year-old Polish man suspected of organizing the killing of well-known crime reporter Peter R. de Vries.
A bombshell report published Tuesday by the bilingual conservative outlet El American accused the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, of cutting a deal with the nation’s biggest gangs to falsify homicide statistics that abruptly ended when Bukele ordered a spree of arrests against prominent gang members.
Swedish police recorded over three times as many fatal shootings this year as the same period in 2021, the most in five years.
Sweden’s National Police Chief Anders Thornberg had admitted that migration and issues with integration have contributed to the country’s ongoing problem with violent criminal gangs. Chief Thornberg states that the ongoing issues with gang violence, particularly the high levels of
On Christmas Day, a man was found by police in the town of Sandviken with critical gunshot injuries, with investigators believing the incident is linked to yet another shooting in the Scandinavian country.
Sweden has seen over 80 explosions take place in various parts of the country, a number far greater than any of its neighbours.
A 31-year-old man has been arrested for murder following a gang-related shooting in the Swedish municipality of Botkyrka last year that left a 12-year-old girl dead. The 31-year-old was finally taken into custody on Tuesday for the shooting, which saw
Reports indicate that multiple attackers were involved in a shooting incident in Nome Park in Aurora, Colorado, on Monday.
From January 1st, 2018, to September of this year, Sweden has seen a total of 1,296 shootings, with 169 people killed as a result and another 460 injured.
Swedish prosecutors in Gothenburg have charged a 17-year-old male over the fatal shooting of police officer Andreas Danman, who was killed during the summer in the “vulnerable” area of Biskopsgården.
STOCKHOLM — An award-winning 19-year-old Swedish rapper was shot to death in southern Stockholm in an incident that media reports on Friday said was likely to be gang-related.
At least 3,000 Swedish police officers have signed a letter addressed to Swedish Interior Minister Mikael Damberg calling on the government to introduce stiffer penalties for lawlessness and deal with no-go zone gangs.
Despite being shot in gang-related violence, a man was caught and arrested for dealing drugs from his hospital bed by police.
The number of arrests for gun crimes in Sweden has dramatically increased since 2017 from 64 to 340 arrests last year, with over 1,300 weapons seized in 2020.
Two children aged six and seven were struck by ricocheting bullets just south of Stockholm near what police believe was a gang-related shooting.
The Biden administration has made it easier for thousands of migrants to gain asylum over credible fears of domestic abuse and gang violence.
Leader of the populist Sweden Democrats (SD) Jimmie Åkesson has claimed Sweden is in a “war-like state” and that the socialist government has “imported” crime and unemployment.
Police Commissioner Erik Nord has acknowledged that mass migration is linked to the surge in fatal shootings in Sweden after a report noted Sweden was the only European country seeing a rising trend of fatal gun violence.
Clashes and brawls between rivals gangs increased by 24 per cent in France in 2020, the Interior Ministry has revealed.
The Swedish capital city of Stockholm saw a record number of explosions and bombings in 2020 despite the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, according to police statistics.
A mob of “up to 40” males fought a running battle on the streets of London with swords, knives, and broken bottles, despite England’s draconian anti-coronavirus lockdown.
“Gangs of masked” men fought a running battle on the streets of Manchester, England, with “machetes and guns” in what police have described as an “isolated incident”.
French populist National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen compared scenes in the multicultural city of Montpellier to Baghdad, as rival gangs reportedly exchanged gunfire in broad daylight on Sunday.
An intelligence report from the Gothenburg police has revealed deep concern over growing violence between ethnic gangs in the city as they battle over the city’s illegal drug trade. The report claims gangs of Syrian migrants along with Afghani and
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has U-turned and admitted that there is a link between migration and Sweden’s rising levels of violent crime.
