Last year, six children under the age of 15 were suspected of murder in Sweden. In 29 cases, children were suspected of attempted murder and in 21 cases of preparation for murder.
District police officer Rissa Seidou has worked with young people around the Järva area in Stockholm for several years. In SVT’s Min sanning, she says that it is becoming more difficult to see which children are at risk of being drawn into crime.
Statistically speaking, it is mainly children who come from a life situation fringed by social problems, such as not being able to pass school or having parents who are unemployed.
– You have no faith in the future. They feel abandoned, not seen and not heard. An adult who comes and plays the role of a kind of father, mother or older brother, then you feel a trust in that person, says Rissa Seidou.
Harder to know who will be affected
But the police see a change in which children can end up as victims of the recruiters, says Rissa Seidou.
– We know that there are young people who also have good conditions. And those cases are increasing, she says.
– Today, you can’t say specific children. Any child can be subject to something like that.
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