Twenty-eight thousand euros for a murder in Gothenburg, 600 euros for detonating a bomb and 400 for riddling a door with bullets. It is the horror price list of the Foxtrot crime network, active mainly in Scandinavia, which recruits very young people on social media to transform them into paid killers.
The Foxtrot Network
The details of this reality, which many define as “violence as a service”, were revealed by a detailed investigation conducted by investigative journalists from Nrk, the Norwegian public broadcaster. The report turns the spotlight on an alarming phenomenon: the recruitment of very young Scandinavians, often children as young as 12 or 13, hooked directly on the most popular social media.
At the top of this organization is Rawa Majid, known as “the Kurdish Fox”, an international fugitive who has already been targeted by the authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom. The gang is not limited to drug dealing and internal feuds, but is accused of a string of murders and attacks in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, even acting as Iran’s operational arm to strike Israeli and Jewish targets in Europe.
The kids recruited on social media
The membership mechanism revealed by the NRK investigation is as simple as it is ruthless. It all starts on Instagram or TikTok, where recruiters use bait profiles that contain the word “fox” in their name. Journalists, going undercover and posing as teenagers, have documented how criminals approach minors and initially gain their trust.
Once contact is made, the conversation moves to Signal, an encrypted messaging application. It is here that the boys are placed in secret chats where tasks are assigned as if it were a job board, associating each violent action with a specific monetary reward.