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The leader works remotely. Migrant gangs are taking over Danish cities.

2026-04-13

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
by Viktor Lavrinenko

[REGNUM] Denmark is plagued by migrant crime. Gangs of Middle Eastern immigrants protect drug trafficking, engage in racketeering and theft, settle scores with bombings and shootouts, and—most ominously—use teenagers as fighters.

The state is powerless to put an end to this phenomenon, since in the European Union, with its transparent borders, it is impossible to erect an effective barrier against migrants.

Nonsense. That helplessness is a choice, as we are seeing here in Trump’s America and a number of other countries that have chose to follow the same path.

SWEDISH "IMPORT"
In early April, Denmark began hearings in the case of two seventeen-year-old teenagers who shot up an apartment in the Kastrup district of Copenhagen. On the night of March 31, they fired at least fourteen shots from a Kalashnikov assault rifle. A married couple and their three minor children were sleeping in the apartment at the time.

Luckily, no one was hurt, and the hapless killers were quickly caught by the police who arrived at the scene.

During the investigation, it became clear that they were mercenaries—shortly before the assassination attempt, one of these seventeen-year-olds received a machine gun from the client.

It also turned out that one of the teenagers committed another attack on March 29, firing several shots at the door of an apartment on Lyngbyvej Street in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen.

In this case, too, no one was injured. Furthermore, both are accused of possessing a hand grenade, which they were also preparing for the crime.

The hearing is being held behind closed doors, meaning members of the public cannot learn the details of the case or hear the defendants' testimony. However, some conclusions can be drawn right now.

In Denmark, the legal age of majority is eighteen. Meanwhile, hiring minors for assassination is a common practice among ethnic gangs in Sweden, staffed primarily by people from the Middle East and North Africa.

Minors are told that if caught, they won't face any serious punishment—at most, a few years in correctional colonies, where the contingent is kept in every possible comfort.

Furthermore, minors are lured with promises of high social status, which they can supposedly achieve by starting a career in the gang, as well as easy money, access to weapons and drugs.

The Swedish press dubbed these teenagers hired by gangs "soldiers." Initially, they were used exclusively in Sweden, but then their services began to be contracted by criminal organizations in Denmark as well.

Back in 2024, prices for the services of young Swedish hitmen were published. Young criminals are offered to shoot their victims in the head or throw a hand grenade at them for 300,000 to 500,000 Swedish kronor (approximately 2.5 to 4 million rubles).

Recently, the influx of "soldiers" (usually also recruited from among migrants) has become a serious problem for Denmark. Last year, police conducted a major operation against the "operators" of these "biodrones," arresting seven people. They were apprehended after law enforcement officers recovered and decrypted the perpetrators' correspondence.

However, the capture of the perpetrators did not lead to the disappearance of the phenomenon itself. Since the beginning of 2024, Danish police have identified at least 47 minors who were recruited to commit various crimes. Fourteen of them came from Sweden, the rest were "local recruits."

SHABBI AND BIG A
On the night of April 4, a 23-year-old man got into a fight in central Copenhagen and was stabbed in the stomach. Police spoke with the victim, but he was unwilling to share any details.

Police suspected the suspects first clashed in a nightclub and then took their conflict outside. The suspected murder weapon was found, but no arrests were made.

The context suggests that the reference is to migrants. It should be noted that the Danish press, like other EU countries, has an ironclad rule: whenever possible, never mention the ethnicity of the perpetrator.

They write "Swede," "Dane," "Norwegian," and so on—so much so that an uninitiated outsider might be convinced that they are indeed talking about real Swedes, Danes, or Norwegians. Such are the laws of political correctness that prevail in these countries—unspoken, but no less powerful for that.

However, locals know how to read between the lines. Everyone understands perfectly well that law-abiding native Danes will certainly not engage in a public knife fight.

The above case of street violence clearly illustrates its systemic nature—several large criminal organizations operate in the country. One of the most well-known gangs, Loyal to Familia (LTF), is in ongoing conflict with several other groups for their place in the sun.

It's all very similar to neighboring Sweden, where gangs also wage endless street wars among themselves using firearms and explosives.

Thus, in early February, the LTF's showdown with the Korsløkkegruppen gang (named after the district of the same name) brought the city of Odense to its knees: first, the criminals blew up the entrance to an apartment building, and then staged several shootouts and street chases, with cars racing at breakneck speeds and colliding with each other.

Odense is not that big – 186 thousand people, most of whom now feel fear and uncertainty when moving along the streets and entering houses.

At the same time, Korsløkkegruppen believes they are fighting for a "just cause," having long held Odense. However, Loyal to Familia, having formed an alliance with the Somali group Vollsmose 9hunna in 2022 and then gradually absorbed it, has grown so strong that it has decided to "squeeze" the city.

The founder of LTF is Pakistani-born Shuaib Khan (aka Shabbi), whose track record includes stabbings, murders, and drug trafficking. In 2008, while serving an eight-year sentence for yet another crime, he conceived the idea of founding a large-scale mafia organization.

Possessing the necessary charisma and willpower, Shuaib Khan carried out his plan. At the same time, he tried to eliminate any potential competitors.

In 2015, Shabbi received a six-month prison sentence for organizing an attack on Moroccan-born Abderrozak Benarabe (also known as Big A), the leader of the Blågårds Plads-banden (Blågårds Plads-banden), which had twenty-six key members and numerous underlings. The gang controlled the Copenhagen neighborhood of Nørrebro. The attack was unsuccessful: Big A survived.

Incidentally, a curious fact: three years before the assassination attempt, Benarabe traveled to Syria, which was engulfed in civil war. There, he fought in Idlib with the group fighting against Bashar al-Assad.

Upon returning to Denmark, Big A underwent a "preventive interview" with the police. It would have been logical for a radical Islamist involved in an armed conflict in another country to be prosecuted. But on June 7, 2014, Copenhagen police announced they would not press charges against Benarabe.

The police deemed it impossible to obtain the necessary evidence. Right-wing politicians insisted on deporting Big A, but that, too, was unsuccessful.

RESPECT FOR PRIVACY
However, Shabbi managed to outdo his competitor: by 2021, his LTF group had more than a hundred members, and by now there are already over four hundred.

The Danish authorities' attempts to dispose of him are a separate story. It was a lengthy and complex legal process that took years and was accompanied by intense socio-political turmoil.

It all began when Shabbi openly threatened the police officers who were searching his home. This was the last straw for the authorities, who raised the issue of deporting the Pakistani.

However, the Copenhagen City Court did not insist on his deportation, which is more than surprising, given that this dangerous criminal did not hold Danish citizenship. The court, however, found that his "strong ties to Denmark" outweighed the gravity of his crimes.

This caused enormous irritation in society and fierce pressure from right-wing politicians demanding stricter immigration laws.

The prosecutor's office continued the fight and took the case all the way to the Supreme Court. In November 2018, it delivered its verdict: Shabbi was sentenced to three months in prison and deported from Denmark, followed by a six-year re-entry ban.

But Shuaib Khan was not reconciled to the Danish court's decision and appealed it to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. His defense argued that the deportation violated Shabbi's right to "respect for private and family life," guaranteed by Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Khan's lawyer, playing on pity, claimed that the persecution of his client was orchestrated by politicians who harbored racial hatred against him. He himself said that he last visited his ancestral homeland in 2007 and knew virtually no one there—meaning he should remain in Denmark.

However, in January 2021, the ECHR sided with the Danish state and upheld the deportation. The court ruled that the Danish court had conducted a thorough assessment of all the circumstances and that the expulsion "was not a disproportionate measure," given the "exceptional gravity of Khan's crimes" and the real threat he posed to society.

Indeed, between 2003 and 2017, Shabbi received thirteen convictions in Denmark, most of them for violent crimes. His 2008 murder of 21-year-old William Lennon Davis was shockingly brutal—Shabbi stabbed the man fourteen times.

Thus, the Danish authorities achieved their goal: Shuaib Khan was deported. However, the impact of this victory was minimal: while abroad and free, Shabbi continues to lead his gang, Loyal to Familia, albeit now forced to do so remotely. That's all.

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