A man in his late teens was ordered held in custody on Tuesday while his alleged accomplice in a subway shooting the night before faced the same charges. Both were arrested late Monday night after they’d shot another teenager under the age of 18 and seriously wounded him.
The younger teenage victim, attacked at the Stovner T-bane station in northeast Oslo, was reported to be in stable condition at an Oslo hospital. It’s the latest attack in a wave of violent youth crime in the Norwegian capital that has led to a series of new measures aimed at halting it.
The government and Parliament are now reviewing 20 proposals addressing serious crime that both involves and is aimed at children and youth. The young criminals and their victims have been described as part of “a small group” often with ties to Swedish and Norwegian gangs and hired to carry out the attacks on their victims and their victims’ families and friends.
Since many of the attackers are underage, they can’t be held in custody or punished as adults. Proposals aimed at reforming their ways, however, include establishment of at least three new “pilot institutions” near Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim, all of which would be able to impose strict security measures for holding the most violent youth and repeat offenders.
NewsinEnglish.no staff
