Berlingske investigation: “It is heartbreaking to see what children do to other children”
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- Berlingske reports that significantly more children aged 10 to 14 have been suspected of violence in recent years.
- Journalists used fake youth profiles to enter closed Snapchat groups linked to young people involved in serious crime.
- Investigative journalist Jens Beck Nielsen described the findings as “heartbreaking.”
“It is heartbreaking to see what children do to other children,” investigative journalist Jens Beck Nielsen of Berlingske says in the programme “Pilestræde.”
The investigation began with a series of small observations in the outside world. “We registered, and there were a large number of episodes involving children or very young people who were involved in serious crime,” Nielsen says.
It is heartbreaking to see what children do to other children
Berlingske reports that significantly more 10- to 14-year-olds have been suspected of violence in recent years. Journalists working on the investigation used fake youth profiles to gain access to closed Snapchat groups.
The material from those groups shows a development that two of the journalists describe as both “extreme” and “heartbreaking.”
We registered, and there were a large number of episodes involving children or very young people who were involved in serious crime
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Originally published by Berlingske in Danish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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