00:00All appears idyllic here in Malmö, but under the surface, there's a less romantic truth.
00:05Police officer Glenn Schyggren works in Rosengård, a troubled suburb in Sweden's third biggest city, Malmö.
00:12They are renting, actually, killers from Sweden to do the killings in Denmark.
00:19And they're always young kids. It's cheaper. And if they get caught, they don't get that long sentence.
00:27Malmö in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark have been hit hard over the last months with gang violence.
00:34Several people have been killed, and there's been even arson attacks and bomb attacks.
00:40Karoline Skull is the regional director in Malmö for YouthWork.
00:45The grooming on social media is a relatively big factor for why kids are coming into these environments.
00:55The cross-border crime between Denmark and Sweden has now resulted in police from Denmark working in Sweden and vice versa.
01:03We have to work very close to each other to shorten the ways of communication.
01:17This new approach where police operate on the other side of the border is not normal, but it's clearly needed.
01:23Because it is only 10 kilometers across the Øresund Bridge to the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
01:30And several attacks over the summer have been committed by Swedish gangs, or at least by young people who were hired by these Swedish gangs to do so.
01:39Carsten Norton, Denmark's most famous crime documentary writer, has covered the gang wars.
01:45It's quite serious. Within the last four months, according to the police, there have been at least 25 attempts on Danish soil.
01:53And Norton is not optimistic about the future of the gang violence in Denmark and Sweden.
01:59Earlier we talked a lot about the risk of the Swedish state coming to Denmark. Now it's already happened.
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