European law enforcement investigates rise in juvenile contract crimes and violent homicides

Police across Europe are investigating a series of violent crimes involving youth hitmen and domestic fatalities. German authorities arrested a 13-year-old Dutch national carrying a firearm, suspecting he was recruited by a criminal organization feuding with the Hells Angels following double homicides in Hamburg. Meanwhile, Swedish law enforcement reports a growing trend of adolescent contract killers utilizing electric scooters and encrypted messaging apps to execute targeted assassinations.

In Spain, Madrid police are examining a non-fatal shooting involving a prominent local burglar shot five times in Puente de Vallecas, alongside two separate homicides of women occurring hours apart in the region. Additionally, French prosecutors opened an inquiry into a suspected murder-suicide in northeastern France after a father reportedly shot his wife and two young children before ending his own life.

Sources: Canarias7, El Día, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, Marca.