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‘INDUSTRIAL SCALE’: Europol Issues Warning as Recruiting of Children for Criminal Acts Surges

Killer children are the new frontier in European organized crime.

Western Europe is seeing a surge in criminality, and not even children are spared the impact of this phenomenon.

Top law enforcement officials are sounding the alarm on this growing – and terrifying – trend of underage kids being ‘recruited and groomed online by criminal gangs to commit heinous acts’.

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ABC News reported:

“’It’s like a cheap build-your-own contract killer scheme’, Catherine De Bolle, who until last month was executive director of Europol, the European Union’s police agency, told ABC News. And the problem of violence as a service, she said, is occurring on an ‘industrial scale’.

‘Now, with the usage of artificial intelligence, with the new technology, and with the fact that so many youngsters are on digital platforms, it’s heaven for criminal networks’, De Bolle said. ‘This is really worrying us’.”

De Bolle, former executive director of the EU’s police agency Europol, says criminal networks have no borders — and the digital environment is borderless as well.

Officials alert for the rise of ‘violence as a service’, as gangs embrace the power of the internet.

“Officials say it is simply a computer-age twist on how criminal organizations find unsuspecting teens to do their dirty work: they lurk on gaming sites and messaging apps, seeking to recruit kids as young as 13. The result is child foot soldiers hired as hitmen, becoming both the perpetrators of crime and the victims of criminals.

The trend so concerned European law enforcement that Europol formed a working group last year to combat the problem. Called the Grimm Task Force — named for the Brothers Grimm’s dark and dangerous, cautionary fairytales — it specifically targets violence as a service and the recruitment of young perpetrators into serious, organized crime.”

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Texas Parole Supervisor Fired Over Racist Anti-White Post About Austin Metcalf Case: ‘Time for These Bigots to Start Burying Their Own Kids’

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice parole supervisor has been fired after posting vile anti-white racist comments on social media in response to the conviction of Karmelo Anthony for the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.

Donna Murray Robinson, who was a TDCJ Parole Supervisor working with the Board of Pardons and Parole, posted on Facebook shortly after Anthony’s conviction and sentencing earlier this week.

In the post, she expressed no sympathy for the Metcalf family and called for white people to start “burying their own kids.”

“I am a Parole Supervisor at TX DCJ,” Robinson began. “Karmelo will be ok I can almost assure you he will be protected on the inside. I for one don’t give fk about the family’s loss.”

Robinson continued, “It’s about time these fking bigots feel the pain that they have inflicted on other groups of people since the beginning of time!”

“I’m just glad we didn’t have to bury another black child. Let them start burying some of theirs for a change. FK’em I said what I said.”

Naturally, screenshots of her post rapidly went viral on X and across other social media platforms.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice confirmed her termination on Friday.

A department spokeswoman told The Dallas Morning News that Robinson was fired after a review of her public statements.

The spokesperson noted that the position “carries significant public trust and requires decisions free from personal bias.”

“These statements are incompatible with TDCJ policy and values. They demonstrate bias and a lack of the impartiality essential to the fair administration of justice in Texas,” the statement said. “Discriminatory or inflammatory conduct that erodes public confidence in the criminal justice system will not be tolerated.”

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Sweden Plans to Lower Criminal Age to 14 Amid Rise in Violent Crime by Children

The Swedish government ‌has announced plans to reduce the age of criminal ‌responsibility to 14 after dropping plans to lock up violent offenders as young as 13 in special prison units.

Earlier this month, Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer announced plans to cut the age from 15 to 13, but on June 11, he said there was not enough support in parliament for that and that he had agreed to compromise at 14.

“We are going to propose that the age of criminal responsibility should be cut to 14 instead of 13 years old,” Strommer told reporters.

Currently, anyone under 15 who is suspected of having committed a serious crime is sent to a youth home, run by social services, and cannot be sentenced to a custodial sentence in prison.

Strommer said in 2025 that more than 50 children under ⁠15 were suspected of murder or attempted murder.

There has been a ⁠surge in gang crime and drug-related violence in Sweden over the past 20 years, and it now has one of the highest rates of shootings and bombings in Europe, dozens of which were carried out by minors.

Thousands of Gang Members

Swedish police estimate there are ​17,500 active gang members and around 50,000 who are loosely associated with them.

Magnus Lindgren, a former police chief in Uppsala County and current secretary-general of the Safer Sweden Foundation, told The Epoch Times last year that there were about 15,000 “very dangerous criminals” in Sweden, who were divided evenly into biker gangs, football hooligans, and criminals from around 60 high-crime neighborhoods.

Organized crime gangs, such as the Foxtrot Network, use social media to recruit teenagers and children as young as 11 to ⁠commit acts of violence, including bombings and murders.

The recruiters, who operate anonymously, post adverts in special groups on social media apps and offer money through banking apps.

The EU’s law enforcement agency, Europol, launched Operational Taskforce GRIMM in April 2025 to target so-called “violence-as-a-service,” which it said often used “young perpetrators.”

After the 2022 elections, Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the center-right Moderates, formed a government that includes the Christian Democrats and Liberals, but has the crucial support of the right-wing Sweden Democrats, who campaigned against immigration and in favor of tougher criminal justice measures.

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The Black Lives Matter Lie Is Why Austin Metcalf Is Dead And Karmelo Anthony Is In Prison

jury rightfully convicted Karmelo Anthony for murder and sentenced him to 35 years in prison, but if there isn’t finally a complete rejection of the toxic “Black Lives Matter” movement, similar events are going to play out well into the future. There will be more violence and, if justice is served, more young black men in prison.

At the heart of the BLM ideology is the lazy, destructive assertion that “black and brown” people are oppressed by whites and therefore minorities, particularly blacks, are entitled to exhibit antisocial behavior with impunity, such as resisting arrest, stealing, or, as in the case of Anthony, bringing a knife to a high school track meet in the event he decides to murder someone under the guise of self defense.

The undisputed events of that case are as follows: In early 2025, Anthony, then 17, attended a Texas high school track meet, where he entered the tent of a school team that was not his own, apparently to shelter from rain. He was told to leave by at least one person, student Austin Metcalfe, also 17.

Anthony protested, and when Metcalfe advanced toward him, Anthony, with his hand in his bag, warned Metcalfe to back off. Metcalfe pushed Anthony, and that’s when Anthony plunged his knife into Metcalfe’s chest, striking his heart. Anthony then fled before being apprehended by police. At some point shortly thereafter, he admitted to the stabbing.

Anthony’s defenders have demonstrated their adherence to the Black Lives Matter ideology, either knowingly or not, by maintaining that Anthony was justified in responding to a shove at a grade-school athletic event by thrusting a concealed blade into the chest of a teen. They say it’s similar to the 2020 case of Kyle Rittenhouse, who while being chased on foot by a violent mob shot three people, killing two of them.

The comparison is laughable. Rittenhouse was on scene attempting to help citizens stop race rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and protect the private property of his associates. After a convict, for no discernible reason, chased Rittenhouse, ultimately cornering him in a car lot, Rittenhouse shot him and attempted to notify police. When the mob grew alert, it also gave chase, only for Rittenhouse to trip and fall to the ground, at which point he fired more shots at his aggressors.

Rittenhouse was prosecuted and a jury acquitted, because the overwhelming evidence was that he acted in self defense. In contrast, Anthony wasn’t defending himself. He was engaging in antisocial behavior— the deadly kind.

That justice was served makes it no less a tragedy for Anthony and his family. They and their defenders buy into a degenerate, corrosive ideology, as made clear by Anthony’s parents immediately after the trial suggesting the verdict was tainted by racism. (There were, in fact, non-whites on the jury.)

It’s a tragedy that in these BLM-fueled events, the public cannot count on juries to deliver the right verdict every time. If we could, Derek Chauvin, the officer convicted of murdering drug addict George Floyd, wouldn’t be in prison.

Had Metcalfe been murdered in 2020 or 2021, the outcome might have been very different. BLM is currently weak, but it’s not dead. No one is safe until it is.

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California cult leader sentenced to 225 years for raping, molesting followers

An Oroville man who used a religious organization he founded to sexually assault women and young girls was sentenced to 225 years to life in prison this week, the maximum allowed under California law.

Sansue Bee Vang, 58, was convicted in February by a Butte County jury of eight counts of child molestation and three counts of rape involving members of his Hmong congregation.

At the hearing, five of the six named victims addressed the court, each describing the lasting toll Vang’s assaults had taken on their mental health and family relationships, according to the news release from the Butte County District Attorney’s Office. 

Vang founded the organization Kev Ntseeg Leej Niam Kee Tiam Vaj Lis Thum, loosely translated as “Belief in the Mother,” in Appleton, Wisconsin. The Hmong are an ethnic minority originally from Southeast Asia, and large numbers of Hmong people have immigrated to the United States and California over the past five decades. After building a following in Wisconsin, Vang moved the group to Fresno in 2015 before relocating select families from Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Carolina and Fresno to Oroville in 2020. There, they began constructing a temple and religious community at the base of Table Mountain. According to state records, the organization is based at 274 Thompson Flat Road, north of Oroville, near Highway 70. The group’s website describes plans to develop a temple and community on 170 acres of land at a projected cost of $15 million to $20 million.

Followers regarded Vang as a prophet, the Butte County District Attorney’s Office said.   

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Convicted Killer Karmelo Anthony Begs for Free Lawyer After Family Used $634K on ‘Living Expenses’

Convicted killer Karmelo Anthony is asking for a free lawyer to fund his appeal.

The request comes after a fundraiser raised nearly $634,000 for his family that went partly toward living expenses.

Killer Pleads Poverty

Anthony was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years behind bars on Tuesday.

He has since filed a notice of appeal to challenge the conviction.

He said in the appeal that he cannot afford a new lawyer, WFAA reported.

The documents describe him as a “penniless, destitute, and indigent person, too poor to employ counsel to represent me on the appeal.”

Fundraiser Pulls in Big Money

The fundraiser was posted on the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo on April 15, 2025.

That was less than two weeks after Anthony fatally stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.

The campaign, titled “Help Karmelo Official Fund,” set a goal of nearly $1.4 million.

It ultimately raised just shy of $634,000.

The fundraiser has since been taken down.

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Jamaican National in North Carolina Indicted for Brazen Sham Marriage Immigration Fraud — Used Fake Union to Fast-Track U.S. Citizenship Then Scam VA Disability Benefits by Claiming Phantom Husband as Dependent

A 26-year-old Jamaican national living in Charlotte has been federally indicted for a calculated, multi-year scheme involving sham marriage immigration fraud, lying under oath to obtain U.S. citizenship, and then using that fraudulently acquired status to improperly claim VA disability benefits by listing her never-cohabitating “husband” as a dependent.

Britney Sherene Curry entered the United States on a six-month B-2 tourist visa on August 27, 2015 and promptly overstayed it by more than a decade. Rather than face deportation, she allegedly paid a third party to arrange a fraudulent marriage to a U.S. citizen.

According to the Department of Justice, Curry and her “husband” met for the first time on their wedding day and never lived together before or after the marriage.

After the sham marriage, Curry became a lawful permanent resident. That status allowed her to enlist in the U.S. Army, which in turn let her apply for naturalization almost immediately, bypassing the normal three-year waiting period for spouses of citizens.

She allegedly lied under penalty of perjury on immigration documents about the legitimacy of her marriage. Once naturalized, she even petitioned for her mother to receive lawful permanent resident status.

Less than two years after enlisting, Curry received a medical discharge from the Army. She then filed for VA disability compensation and listed her sham husband as a dependent to boost her monthly benefits, despite never having lived with him and not having seen him since before she joined the military.

According to the DOJ, “Under federal statutes, Curry is subject to a sentence of up to 20 years in prison on the wire fraud and mail fraud charges, up to 10 years in prison on some of the immigration charges, and faces the possibility of being denaturalized. The maximum statutory sentence is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes, as the sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the court based on the advisory sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors.”

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SHOCKING VIDEO: Black Woman in Florida Films Herself Punching Random White Man While Ranting That He Was on the Karmelo Anthony Jury, Second Attack in New Trend of Racially Motivated Assaults?

A disturbing video has gone viral showing a black female in Florida approaching a seated white man, accusing him of serving on the jury that convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder, then punching him in the face.

This is the second viral video in as many days of a white person being attacked and falsely accused of being on the Anthony jury.

The victim was not, and could not have been, on the jury. The murder trial took place in Collin County, Texas, not Florida.

The video was uploaded to Facebook by a woman named Mesha Keaton, of Tampa, who appears to be the attacker.

In the footage, Keaton approaches the man, who is sitting outdoors, and demands: “Hey, hey, weren’t you on the motherfucking jury selection?”

When he denies it, she insists, “Yes, you was,” before physically assaulting him.

She continues ranting during the attack.

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Report: Personal Crimes in Gun-Controlled Australia Triple that of Gun-Friendly USA

Personal crimes such as rape and sexual assault are three times higher in gun-controlled Australia than in the USA, a report in the Spectator/Australia on Wednesday details.

Written by Malcolm Roberts and John Lott, Jr., the report begins by explaining that the establishment media’s approach to coverage and the method of compiling crime stats leads many to believe Australia’s “crime rate is low compared with the countries like the United States.”

The media “reinforces the myth” of lower crime while less than 20 percent of rapes and sexual assaults are reported to Australian police. However, in the U.S.,  45 percent of such personal crimes are reported to police. This difference in the level of personal crime reporting skews the figures seen by the populations of both countries and feeds into the establishment media’s low-crime narrative.

After a hard look at the real numbers, Roberts and Lott wrote: “Australia’s rape and sexual assault rate is roughly three times higher than that of the United States. Australia’s assault rate is about twice as high, and its burglary rate is about 2.5 times higher. Robbery is the only category where the two countries report similar rates.”

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FBI RAIDS Democrat-Controlled California Assessor’s Office and Assessor’s Home — Hit With Three Federal Search Warrants Amid Corruption, Favoritism, and Sexual Harassment Scandals

The FBI executed three federal search warrants Tuesday morning at the Contra Costa County Assessor’s Office and the homes of longtime Assessor Gus Kramer and his right-hand man, Assistant Assessor Vince Robb.

The FBI executed three federal search warrants on Tuesday, targeting the Contra Costa County Assessor’s Office and the homes of two top county tax officials in what is shaping up to be one of the biggest public corruption investigations to hit California’s East Bay in years.

Federal agents descended on the Contra Costa County Assessor’s Office in Martinez, along with residences connected to longtime County Assessor Gus Kramer and Assistant Assessor Vince Robb, who was recently elected to replace Kramer.

Investigators have reportedly been seeking evidence related to wire fraud and other potential offenses. No criminal charges have been announced yet.

The Assessor’s Office is responsible for property valuations across approximately 380,000 parcels of land, a massive operation that directly determines tax bills for hundreds of thousands of homeowners, businesses, and property owners across the county.

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