Migrant children in Norway are being recruited by gangs and armed with GRENADES to carry out contract hits after failure to integrate leaves them vulnerable to criminals
Migrant children in Norway are being recruited by gangs and armed with grenades to carry out contract hits after a failure of integration left them vulnerable to criminal networks.
The minors are being recruited by Foxtrot, one of Europe's most notorious criminal networks whose leadership is based in Iran and acts on behalf of the Ayatollah's regime to target victims.
While the criminal syndicate originated in Sweden, it is now expanding across the border and wreaking havoc in Norway where teenagers - mostly from a migrant background - are hired as would-be assassins, according to MPs and invesigators.
On September 23, at 8.45pm, multiple grenades exploded outside a nail salon in Bislett, Oslo, shattering the windows and riddling its walls with shrapnel.
Police linked two 13-year-old boys to the attack and suspect that they were recruited via TikTok, supplied with the smuggled grenades, and paid 30,000 NOK (£2,000) to carry out the deed.
The Bislett explosion was only the beginning. Within weeks, two more Foxtrot-linked attacks followed.
On September 30, three boys aged 12, 13, and 14 were linked to a shooting incident in Sarpsborg. A week later, a 15-year-old linked was suspected of throwing a grenade at a sushi restaurant in Strømmen.
Because of a legal loophole in Scandinavia, children under the age of 15 cannot be held criminally responsible - making minors the ideal recruits for carrying out attacks on behalf of the Foxtrot crime ring.
The 'Foxtrot' network is understood to be run by Rawa Majid, also known as 'the Kurdish fox', who reportedly lives under the protection of the Ayatollah’s regime
On September 23, at 8.45pm, multiple grenades exploded outside a nail salon in Bislett, Oslo, shattering the windows and riddling its walls with shrapnel
Police linked two 13-year-old boys to the attack in Bislett and suspect that they were recruited via TikTok , supplied with the smuggled grenades, and paid 30,000 NOK (£2,000) to carry out the deed
Foxtrot emerged in Sweden at the end of the 2010s and is led by Rawa Majid, also known as the 'Kurdish Fox', who has been sanctioned by the UK for his role in attacks across Europe on behalf of the Iranian regime.
Majid, as head of the expanding criminal network, is understood to live under the protection of the Ayatollah and has been involved in violent plots, particularly against Jewish and Israeli targets.
In Norway, the syndicate is deliberately hiring children who are vulnerable to exploitation to carry out its crimes - whether that's due to their economic status or conditions at home.
One of the 13-year-old boys suspected of the Bislett explosion was previously taken into custody by child welfare services after his parents were charged with violence against him, VG reported.
Norwegian MPs have also linked the rise in child gang crime to a major increase in mass migration, arguing that many feel poorly integrated into society, making them to susceptible to manipulation by criminal networks such as Foxtrot.
'We have to be honest about something here: most of these kids have migration backgrounds,' Mahmoud Farahmand, an MP for the opposition Conservative party, told The Telegraph.
'The government has not been able to put up a formidable defence... they’ve become blind to the situation,' he said.
Lars Norbom, the secretary-general of the community support group Night Ravens, expressed the same sentiment, telling the newspaper: 'We have issues with cultural differences, and with social differences but most of all we have failed at integrating immigrants.'
Since the early 1990s, the number of immigrants living in Norway has risen from around 4 percent of the population to 16 percent in January 2024.
Emergency services are seen on responded to Pilestredet just off Parkveien in Oslo, Norway on September 23, 2025, after reports of an explosion
One of the 13-year-old boys suspected of the Bislett explosion was previously taken into custody by child welfare services after his parents were charged with violence against him, VG reported
'Iran's brazen use of transnational criminal organisations and drug traffickers underscores the regime's efforts to achieve its goals by any means necessary, regardless of the cost to communities across Europe,' said U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
The U.S. believes the Foxtrot network was responsible for orchestrating a thwarted attack on the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, on behalf of Iran in January 2024.
A 'dangerous object' was located outside the building which police destroyed.
And in October last year, explosions were reported near the Israeli embassy in central Copenhagen, leading to police investigating potential connections to Iran.
The UK has subjected Foxtrot's leader, Majid, to a travel ban, an asset freeze and a director disqualification.
As well as being behind violent crimes, Foxtrot is also a prominent drug trafficking organisation and the biggest supplier of heroine in Sweden.
The gang has expanded its network of drug mules across Denmark and Norway where it has been linked to a significant increase in cocaine since Covid-19.
Anne Lindboe, the Mayor of Oslo, said drugs worth up to £570 milion have been smuggled through Norway’s largest port, which receives the equivalent of 243,000 20-ft-containers a year.
'The main driver of gang crime is drugs,' said Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, a member of the Centre Party who served as Minister of Finance between 2021 and 2025.
'That is why we must strengthen the customs service and control. We must have more customs officers and more scanners,' he told VG.
Military police officers stand guard as police investigate two explosions near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024
In July, a 34-year-old Swedish man linked to the 'Foxtrot' network was charged with threatening two employees at the police central detention centre in Grønland, Oslo
Norwegian police believe the children being recruited by Foxtrot to carry out the violent crimes are enticed via popular social media platforms.
'It appears that the original contact was established on TikTok,' police attorney Henrik Rådal told NRK in relation to the grenade attack in Bislett.
Residents in Strømmen have called for more measures to prevent further attacks, including more visible police presence on the streets and increased 'Night Ravens': volunteers who patrol communities at night to keep an eye out for young people who may have had too much to drink.
In July, a 34-year-old Swedish man was charged with threatening two employees at the police central detention centre in Grønland, Oslo.
He reportedly threatened to place a bomb at the home of one of the employees' family members.
According to NRK, he claimed that he was part of the criminal Foxtrot network.
But Foxtrot is but one of around 70 Swedish gangs operating in Norway, where teenagers are being anonymously hired on encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram.
They can be paid anywhere between £20,000 and £60,000 for a hit, using hand grenades or improvised explosives smuggled into the country.
Many don't even know who commissioned the crime, but are willing to carry it out for the right payment.
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