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Crime gangs are using tailored messaging to recruit minors for serious and violent offences, warns Europol

SUBSCRIBE 27th December 2024Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight
While the recruitment of minors into organised crime and terrorism is not new, a recent Europol briefing warns that youngsters aged 13-17 are now involved as perpetrators in more than 70% of all European criminal markets, with gangs using increasingly targeted messaging on social media platforms and “gamified” challenges and missions for minors to blur the lines between friendship and exploitation, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports.

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