Sweden, Denmark look to crack down on gangs recruiting members on tech platforms
Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer, his Danish counterpart Peter Hummelgaard and Swedish national police chief Petra Lundh attend a press conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Aug. 21, 2024.Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the Nordics, the justice ministers of the two countries said on Wednesday.
Swedish Minister of Justice Gunnar Strommer told a joint news conference with his Danish counterpart that the gangs were innovative and had started recruiting youngsters online. Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard said encrypted services and social media – naming Telegram and TikTok – were widely used to facilitate crime and that if it was up to him alone, some communication platforms would be geoblocked and shut down.
Telegram said that it abided by the EU’s Digital Service Act and that recruitment for illegal acts was forbidden on the platform.
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