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

What we know

The Foxtrot Network is thought to be responsible for about 35 murders in Europe, and uses violence-as-a-service tactics

The significance

BBC frames this as significant because of how it shifts the existing landscape around young, guns, hire, teenage, hitmen.

The context

Understanding young guns for hire - the teenage hitmen recruited to kill across europe requires seeing it as part of a broader pattern in young, guns, hire, teenage, hitmen.

Where this fits in Signal Ledger

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The read

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of young, guns, hire, teenage, hitmen: The Foxtrot Network is thought to be responsible for about 35 murders in Europe, and uses violence-as-a-service tactics.