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2026-09-29 Europe
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'Role-Playing Games.' Scandinavian youth are being corrupted by online extremists
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
by Viktor Lavrinenko
[Regnum] Sweden and Norway continue to struggle with migrant crime. Recent months have seen a number of high-profile events, from the rape conviction of an Eritrean rapper to the rise of extremist online platforms where Scandinavian youth are being taught negative things.
At the same time, the authorities, out of habit, try to blame the platforms' activities on "Moscow's machinations," thereby distancing themselves from finding real solutions to the problem.
DON'T MESS WITH RAPPERS
Far from the most serious, but certainly the most high-profile crime this year in Sweden was committed by 29-year-old Asmer Tsigabu, the son of Eritrean and Ethiopian parents. He is widely known in the country by his nickname, Asme.
He is a popular rapper who grew up in a migrant neighborhood in Gothenburg and formed the duo Aden x Asme with a friend. In 2020, they won the "Group of the Year" award. Asme later launched a solo career, and his albums are extremely popular among local youth, including one that won the city's top Grammis award.
Tsigabu has never been known for his exemplary character; by this year, he had accumulated several convictions: for customs violations, petty drug smuggling, and drunk driving.
| All common in the rapper culture. |
And on April 30th, having become completely brazen, he committed rape. It all began at a Grammis Awards party. There, the rapper met his future victim, who worked at his record label.
Asme offered to go to his room at Stockholm's Clarion Hotel. The woman agreed. At some point, the victim reported feeling ill, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep fully clothed.
She later awoke in a "foggy, dream-like state" and discovered the rapper sexually assaulting her.
| A sadly common tale in popular music for generations, and the arts altogether. |
She fled and filed a complaint. The prosecutor's office accused Tsigabu of "misusing the victim's particularly vulnerable position due to sleep and intoxication."
The musician pleaded not guilty. On August 27, 2026, the Stockholm District Court delivered a guilty verdict. The judge found the woman's testimony "credible and reliable."
After all, to support her position, she cited witness statements from people she contacted immediately after the incident, screenshots from her phone, and a short video she recorded in the elevator after the incident. Security camera footage became crucial evidence against the rapper.
The rapper was sentenced to three years in prison for rape. The court ordered him to pay the victim 240,570 Swedish kronor (over 2 million rubles). The case received widespread media coverage, and the verdict generated significant public outcry.
At the same time, right-wing politicians pointed out that the local music industry encouraged and rewarded Asme for his songs extolling the "joys" of gang life. In other words, he encouraged others to commit crimes.
Cigabu is far from the first rapper to be convicted of crime in Sweden. Recently, rapper Mowgli, aka Mohamed Mohdi, a high-ranking member of the Foxtrot gang network, was arrested on suspicion of more than a dozen serious crimes, including murder, preparation for murder, drug trafficking, and procuring minors.
And rappers Gaboro (Ninos Moses Khoury) and Gambino (Karar Ali Salem Ramadan) themselves became victims of criminal showdowns in 2024.
BLACK MIRROR IN SCANDINAVIAN STYLE
The Swedish authorities' failure to curb crime in the country is due to the fact that most of the leaders of the country's largest criminal network, Foxtrot, are based abroad and operate remotely.
True, sometimes they are found there too—an Iraqi court recently sentenced 22-year-old Ali Shehab to life imprisonment. The Swedish press claims that since Foxtrot leader Rava Majid (aka the Kurdish Fox) is hiding in Iran, he has, in exchange for asylum, provided his resources to local intelligence agencies to attack enemies of the state.
The trial of five minors has begun in Gothenburg. They are accused of agreeing to blow up the Malmö headquarters of Aimpoint, a company specializing in the production of military optical sights, and to kill fugitive politician Arvin Khoshnoud, a vocal supporter of the restoration of the Shah's rule in Iran.
For some time now, a new threat has begun to draw the attention of Scandinavian police: the emergence of destructive online platforms. These are communities that deliberately target vulnerable children and adolescents, pushing them toward violence, self-harm, and murder.
These are network-centric structures united by a shared passion for violence and nihilism. The European Crime Agency (Europol) describes The Com network as "a global threat, particularly dangerous because its victims and perpetrators are minors."
Such networks lack a clear political or religious ideology. Experts have characterized this phenomenon as "nihilistic violent extremism." Community members view violence not as a means, but as an end in itself. Participants share and actively cultivate a misanthropic worldview, denying the value of human life.
The more extreme and shocking content a user creates or shares, the higher their status. Violence becomes a kind of "social currency."
Some factions are adopting the idea of accelerating social collapse, for which they are willing to commit any crimes, even those that seem completely senseless at first glance.
Recruiters appear where minors feel safe—online games, social media, messaging apps, and streaming platforms. The target audience is children and teenagers aged 8 to 17.
Criminals, who are 10 to 15 years older than them, approach children and build trusting or "romantic" relationships with them, using flattery and manipulation. At first, the child is asked to perform harmless tasks, then increasingly serious ones: from false police calls to actual assaults. Once caught, it's difficult to get out: threats and blackmail are used.
In September, a Swedish court found an 18-year-old man from Umeå guilty of committing approximately 40 crimes on behalf of the online cult "764." Police called the case the most horrific in modern Swedish history.
The perpetrator was arrested in April 2025 during a class. The charges include three counts of attempted murder, incitement to suicide, rape, and serious sexual crimes against children.
He was also found guilty of aggravated assault, distribution of child pornography, and animal cruelty. The young Swede was between 15 and 17 years old at the time of the crimes. A forensic psychiatric examination revealed that he did not suffer from any serious mental disorders.
As a result, the criminal received a 10-year prison sentence. He expressed great outrage at the sentence and denies his guilt.
"MINOR" ISSUES
Norwegian police recently uncovered a shocking revelation: a 16-year-old teenager from the Vestfold region was planning a terrorist attack on a kindergarten in Oslo.
Law enforcement officers found a detailed attack plan on his phone. The teenager planned to use axes and knives for the murder. Recruiters from the The Com network had persuaded him to commit this monstrous act. Fortunately, the budding serial killer announced his intentions on social media—and was noticed.
A bladed weapon and a manifesto he had written, praising Adolf Hitler and Anders Breivik, were seized from his home. The boy is charged under a terrorism offense that carries a prison sentence of up to 15 years for minors. He claims the whole thing was just "role-playing."
According to Swedish and Norwegian police, the number of criminal cases involving instigators has increased sharply. One of them involves a 14-year-old boy, the leader of the "764" cell.
In a southern Stockholm suburb, he approached an 82-year-old man returning from visiting his wife in a nursing home and stabbed him three times in the back. The attack was captured on video and posted on social media. The victim suffered serious injuries but survived.
It turned out that this aggressor had previously committed at least six other attacks in the same area. He was also actively recruiting other teenagers online. The court ordered him placed under compulsory guardianship for "treatment and rehabilitation."
The identity of the provocateur who lured the criminal into the network was later established – it turned out to be the same 18-year-old youth from Umeå.
Another victim of The Com was a 14-year-old boy from the Norwegian region of Møre og Romsdal. Newly-found "friends" tricked him into revealing intimate content and then, threatening to publish it, demanded that he call the police and report a bomb, supposedly planted in a local institution.
The boy refused, and was then asked to undress, kneel, and record a video apology. The blackmailer threatened to send a bomb threat in his name. The boy refused and reported everything to adults. The perpetrator was never caught.
In total, according to Norwegian police, as of June of this year, 45 cases related to The Com were under investigation.
Among the most dangerous figures on the network are people from Ukraine. One of them is neo-Nazi Yegor Krasnov (Maniac) from Dnipropetrovsk.
He founded the extremist group Maniac Murder Cult, which became part of The Com network. Meanwhile, the Western press eagerly picked up on the SBU's insinuations that Russia was allegedly using The Com to "recruit underage Ukrainians to commit terrorist attacks."
Sweden has seen a change of power following the elections. Magdalena Andersson, the leader of the victorious Left Bloc, is now outlining her priorities. She is particularly interested in Ukraine's accession to the EU and the confiscation of Russian assets. "Sweden is back," she declares pompously.
Such statements sound tragicomic against the backdrop of the real problems plaguing the kingdom: the continued growth of criminal networks, the monstrous rise of juvenile delinquency, the emergence of destructive ideologies that young people are embracing.
But the Swedish authorities, both old and new, consider them secondary.
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