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The case involving terror plans in Hadsten points to a global network emerging on social media. A network in which young people are manipulated and blackmailed into committing extreme violence, against themselves and others. Danish experts say it has spread to Denmark, too.

Network manipulates children into violence, self-harm and murder: »The goal is to destroy the world«

Illustration: Caroline Niegaard. Originalfoto: Mikkel Berg Pedersen/Ritzau Scanpix / unsplash
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In December 2024, a 15-year-old girl opened fire in a study hall at a Christian school in Wisconsin.

A few months earlier, an 82-year-old man was stabbed by a 14-year-old Swedish boy in a suburb of Stockholm.

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