Young guns for hire - the teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe

Image source, Swedish PoliceImage caption, Atilla Azimov posing with a gun three months before he killed Murad AbdelkaderByDaniel SandfordUK correspondentIn a Stockholm suburb a man dressed in black appeared out of the winter night. Carrying a handgun, he approached 20-year-old Murad Abdelkader, a student on his way back from a shift at McDonald's. The gunman opened fire, shooting again and again as he approached his target. He fired the last shot into his victim's head as he lay helpless on the ground. The killer was 18-year-old Atilla Azimov. On that February night last year, he had killed the wrong man.He had done it for money - hired by the Foxtrot Network, an organised crime group with links to the Iranian regime which has become notorious for its violence-as-a-service (VaaS) tactics.Image source, Swedish PoliceImage caption, Atilla Azimov, seen in CCTV images and after his arrest, was jailed for life for the mistaken killingSince 2022, the Foxtrot Network is thought to have been responsible for about 35 murders as well as a number of attacks and attempted attacks on Israeli targets in Europe including two involving explosives and hand grenades.The gang recruits teenagers to c...