Dr. Xanthe Weston
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So they're posting their videos of their successes, and we're literally talking like $500,000, up to, say, $10,000 or $20,000 for more serious crimes.
But the ones the kids are doing, like literally 13-, 14-, 15-year-old kids, a few hundred dollars to firebomb a tobacconist or a nightclub or wherever.
For sure, which is why they're doing it, because they see, I get a few hundred bucks.
And the kudos.
But what they don't see, and the kudos, and the access to potentially becoming one of these gang members where, you know, they think that's a good thing, but obviously they don't understand the implications, the consequences.
They could get injured.
Other people could die.
People are being injured because they're throwing firebombs around and they just don't get how serious this is.
Yeah, and we saw somebody be kidnapped, didn't we?
And it was just the wrong person being kidnapped because the bumbling kidnappers went to the wrong house.
You know, this could not be more serious because these amateurs are out there being paid small amounts of money and they just don't have a clue what they're doing and they're putting members of the community and the public at risk.
Well, it is.
And what does that even mean?
I mean, is that just an acronym for kind of these organised gangs that are online?
We don't know whether...
It's an international group because obviously these jobs can be posted anywhere.
Crime is international, drugs, guns, like all these trades, alcohol, tobacco, they're all international.
So all these networks are working in different places in the world.
You know, it's been suggested to me that this could be a Russian group.
that are doing this.