A message arrives. No interview. No meeting. Just encrypted instructions, GPS coordinates and the promise of money.
Across Europe, criminal networks are increasingly recruiting young people online and separating each operation into anonymous roles: instigator, recruiter, enabler and perpetrator. Europol calls the model “violence as a service.”
This GLOBAL SOUTH POST investigation examines the case of a Norwegian teenager sent to Britain for a murder plot, the Foxtrot Network, attacks and attempted attacks on Israeli targets, and the alleged state-linked interests that European authorities continue to investigate.
The distinction matters: investigators attribute about thirty-five murders since twenty twenty-two to Foxtrot. That figure is separate from attacks and attempted attacks on Israeli-linked targets. Alleged links to Iranian state interests remain attributed and under investigation; they are not presented here as proven for every operation.
SOURCES
Europol — Operational Taskforce GRIMM
Europol — Violence as a Service
Metropolitan Police — Norwegian murder-conspiracy case
Crown Prosecution Service — Natland prosecution
BBC News — Foxtrot investigation
ABC News / AP — contextual reporting and archive
HASHTAGS
#GlobalSouthPost #Europe #OrganizedCrime #Europol #Foxtrot ViolenceAsAService TeenRecruitment TransnationalCrime OSINT
SHORT CAPTION
Europe’s criminal networks are turning smartphones into recruitment tools — separating organizers, recruiters and young perpetrators who may never meet.
Across Europe, criminal networks are increasingly recruiting young people online and separating each operation into anonymous roles: instigator, recruiter, enabler and perpetrator. Europol calls the model “violence as a service.”
This GLOBAL SOUTH POST investigation examines the case of a Norwegian teenager sent to Britain for a murder plot, the Foxtrot Network, attacks and attempted attacks on Israeli targets, and the alleged state-linked interests that European authorities continue to investigate.
The distinction matters: investigators attribute about thirty-five murders since twenty twenty-two to Foxtrot. That figure is separate from attacks and attempted attacks on Israeli-linked targets. Alleged links to Iranian state interests remain attributed and under investigation; they are not presented here as proven for every operation.
SOURCES
Europol — Operational Taskforce GRIMM
Europol — Violence as a Service
Metropolitan Police — Norwegian murder-conspiracy case
Crown Prosecution Service — Natland prosecution
BBC News — Foxtrot investigation
ABC News / AP — contextual reporting and archive
HASHTAGS
#GlobalSouthPost #Europe #OrganizedCrime #Europol #Foxtrot ViolenceAsAService TeenRecruitment TransnationalCrime OSINT
SHORT CAPTION
Europe’s criminal networks are turning smartphones into recruitment tools — separating organizers, recruiters and young perpetrators who may never meet.
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- NORWEGIAN NEWS
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- Europe, organized crime, violence as a service
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