Remember a while back when we covered Sweden's child-assassin problem?
Their astoundingly shortsighted law, making it illegal to prosecute children under 15 for crimes, has now apparently grown into an international business.
However, someone didn't tell this fifteen-year-old in Australia that Sweden's law doesn't extend to the land down under.
A Swedish teenager has been charged in Australia for allegedly using encrypted communication apps to help plan contract killings in Sweden and Denmark.
The kid had an encrypted computer which has been seized by forensics and suspected of being used in plotting overseas murders.
It isn't clear if the kid, a Swedish citizen, had moved to Australia or was just there visiting; but it is clear that the Aussies had been monitoring his online transmissions.
‘While in Australia, the young man is suspected of having attempted to recruit people to commit contract killings in Denmark and Sweden as part of ongoing gang conflicts in the Nordic region,' Lars Feldt-Rasmussen, Danish deputy chief superintendent of the National Special Crime Unit, said in the statement.
It's crazy to me that in Sweden, they let 15-year-olds run contract killings, whereas in the U.S., we won't even let them operate the fryer at McDonald's.
At any rate, the underage suspect is being held without bail and is scheduled to appear in an Australian juvenile court, where they will still take a minor to trial for something like international assassination ...
At least for now.
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