'Violence-as-a-service' suspect arrested in Iraq, extradition underway

A 21-year-old Swedish man accused of being a key organizer of violence-as-a-service linked to the Foxtrot criminal network, which police say has recruited and exploited minors, has been arrested in Iraq. The suspect, whose name has not been released, is wanted on several charges including instigated murder, instigated …

[Doctor Syntax]

Good. Although the idea of someone being arrested in absentia is a strange concept but maybe it's Sweden's way of issuing an arrest warrant.

[shayneoneill]

As best as I can work out "Arrested in absentia" is more about institutional status and the timing of things. In most countries once your arrested, say when a cop catches you doing something naughty, he's on a timer to run it past a judge otherwise he has to release you. However some suspects, particularly when abroad might have to be detained for more than that before a judge can review it, and they might be too dangerous to just release, so they get a warrant from the judge and the judge issues it with the perp 'in absentia' with the understanding that once they are in custody, at the first available opportunity it'd come back to the judge again for review.

[PRR]

In Ukraine, not Sweden, but probably suggestive:

"As soon as a person arrested in absentia crosses [into] the state border of Ukraine, they must be immediately detained and handed over to law enforcement agencies."

https://ti-ukraine.org/en/news/arrest-in-absentia-how-it-works/

It changes the usual timing of physical and paperwork. Usually you have the guy detained and you ask to hold him longer. Here you don't have the guy but if he comes in, you have pre-permission (maybe a duty) to hold him more than a little.

[Pascal Monett]

"a growing threat to youth"

I can list a few things off the top of my head that are a "growing threat to youth" : Meta, X, Instagram, TikTok and social media in general.

What'cha gonna do about those ?

[may_i]

Re: "a growing threat to youth"

At least the antisocial media sites you mention don't deliver bombs and bullets.

Foxtrot has actively recruited people as young as 13 to murder people - purely because they are below the age where they can be held fully responsible for their actions.

I'd appreciate it if you didn't trivialise the actions of these scum. Even in the sleepy suburb of Stockholm where I live, we've had kids discharging a full clip from an AK47 through someone's apartment door and it wasn't even the "right" door. We've had the entrance of an apartment block destroyed by a powerful bomb. The actions of Foxtrot place innocent Swedish people at risk. Everything possible needs to be done to destroy Foxtrot, arrest all the members and imprison them.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "a growing threat to youth"

At least the antisocial media sites you mention don't deliver bombs and bullets.

Not directly, no, but how else do they recruit these people?

[may_i]

Re: "a growing threat to youth"

At school or adjacent to it quite often. Sure, anti-social media plays a part in it, but be under no illusion that the problem would magically disappear if antisocial media ceased to exist.

This is not a social media problem. It's about a major conflict between two Swedish gangs battling over who controls the market for drugs in the country.

They are utterly ruthless - even torturing and murdering two 15 year old children who didn't take enough care of the guns they had been told to hide for the gang.

Let's not try to trivialise a major crime wave which has resulted in widespread bombings and shootings. Or make it about insane policies which attempt to control how young people are allowed to communicate with each other.

[MattAvan]

I'm impressed how the report was sanitized to avoid mentioning Islam, immigrants, and how the authorities haven't released the likely Muslim name of the arrested "Swedish man".

The Foxtrot gang is led by a Kurdish man, Rawa Majid, born in Iraq and immigrated to Sweden as a baby.

I am a citizen of India btw, and I expect the downvote ratio to show me how quickly the West will destroy itself.

[may_i]

And your point is?

The name of the criminal arrested in Iraq is Ali Shehab.This was released by the Swedish public broadcaster two days ago.

Your final sentence is nonsensical. What point are you trying to make here?