Some personal insights from the field. Most gangs in Sweden fight about turf control for mainly drugs, but also “protection” money for ethnic residents. Basically acting like the mafia foe their migrant community. You open an iraqi grocery shop and you’re not paying protection fee? Shame if your store burn down. That aside, the way they do assassination of targets (usually local distributer who owe too much money or stolen some products) is by hiring underage boys, slapping a 50k (sometime 25k) price tag, and handing them a target and a weapon. If/when they’re caught, they are not sent to prison, but a juvenile psychiatric care for a year, and then released back to the public. Most of the hitmen are usually 17 yo german nationals (from migrant background).
Most of the hitmen are usually 17 yo german nationals (from migrant background)
Can you be a little be more specific about these backgrounds or is there no data on it available? Because migrant background with German pass could be anything from a foreigner that lived long enough in Germany to become naturalized to somebody born, raised and lived in Germany to partly foreign parents.
I don’t know specifically, but both options seem likely. The main criteria is a broken household, and hatred for European values. Funny enough, while most of them are muslim, religion play very little role in any of this (ie it is not religiously motivated but rather facilitated). It is rather a factor in the selection criteria. Migrant heritage plays a far bigger role.
Is there a prominent country of origin? I would assume it to be Turkey, not because of any inherently Turkish attributes, but because of the fact, that migration from Turkey played an outstandingly dominant role in the history of post-war German immigration up until very recently.
Most likely Lebanese/levant accent, as many settled in during the lebanese civil war. But some lebanese would say these are kurds masquerading as lebanese (referecing some last names, but I still doubt the validity of such claims). Either way, north african are also involved, and possibly albanias albeit to a far lesser extent. I am not aware of any turk gangs though, but I have not lived in Germany so.
Why Germans?
It’s a main hub for drug/arms gangs in the EU, and lots of young recruits, and lose treatment for minors when it comes to crime? Although the latter seems to be a common theme in the EU.
