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Organised crime gangs in northern Europe are targeting young people through online gaming platforms to film them committing murders, a senior An Garda Síochána official warned.
Kennedy Summer School hears size of recent Meta legal settlement a reflection of vast social-media profitsOrganised crime gangs across northern Europe are targeting young people through online gaming platforms to film themselves committing murders, a senior Andrew McLindon, head of communications for An Garda Síochána, said the gangs were now offering young targets $300 to go to another European country to kill someone.
“They say: ‘We want you to travel to another country, this is the person we want you to shoot, we want you to shoot them and we want you to video them. ’ That is happening in northern Europe at the moment and it’s hugely concerning,” he told the Kennedy Summer School in New Ross, “They are targeting young people through online platforms, they are effectively radicalising them and they turn them into a lifestyle of being a member of an OCG, that the organised crime gang is glamorous.
”Deaths of Irish woman and husband in hot tub in Spain may have been accidentalsocial-media “These nihilistic people are competing with each other to see how much harm they can inflict or get self-inflict on a young child. So we are seeing the situation accelerating all the time and the harm to young people accelerating as well. ”, yes. I think again it’s important to recognise.
That’s what you’re up against,” he said, referring to However, the legal settlement with US states led by California was significant because the promised algorithmic changes to cut harmful conduct and night-time use by minors, included in the agreement, would be “a big step forward”, he said. Civil servant to face non-jury Special Criminal Court over alleged leaks to foreign handlerMean Girls show cancelled mid-performance after power cut at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre‘Adding a tip is crazy’: Irish people united on their view of tipping terminalsBreakthrough Irish comedian takes prize at Edinburgh Comedy Awards
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