On Wednesday, the 21-year-old ringleader in the extensive gang case in Sundsvall is questioned.
He continues to deny the criminal charges leveled against him.
– I am not part of any groupings or in conflict with anyone, he says.
According to the indictment, nine people were on the 21-year-old’s “death list”.
The targets were his old cronies in the Valley network, whom he had abandoned some time ago for the rival Foxtrot network, and now wanted to get out of the way in the networks’ war for the city’s drug market.
On Wednesday, the 21-year-old, who is singled out as the mastermind behind murder plans and attempted murder in the extensive gang case in Sundsvall, will be questioned for the first time in the Attunda district court’s security room.
Claims his innocence
According to the prosecutor, the 21-year-old must have, among other things, hired executors and ensured that they had “printer’s apartments” to stay in during their time in Sundsvall, as well as procured the weapons and bombs that they used in the acts of violence.
But during the interrogation, the 21-year-old, just as his lawyer has previously made clear, continues to claim his innocence.
– I am not part of any groupings or in conflict with anyone, says the 21-year-old.
Alias ”KP”
A large part of the prosecutors’ questions focus on a mobile phone that was seized from the apartment where the 21-year-old was arrested. On it is an account on the encrypted messaging app Signal with the alias “KP,” which prosecutors believe belongs to him.
In the chat conversations between the defendants, according to the prosecutors, “KP” plays a central role in the planning and initiation of the crime.
But the 21-year-old claims that neither the phone nor the account is his, but his friend’s.
– But I have used it on various occasions, just as I have used my other friends’ phones. That is why traces of me have been found in it, he says.
He says that he and his friend got to know each other when they were in prison together in 2022 and that since they were released they “have been hanging out almost daily”. However, he does not want to describe the friend and their relationship to each other more closely than that.
– I don’t want to talk about anyone other than myself, he says.
The 21-year-old is charged with, among other things, several cases of stamping, preparation and attempted murder.
FACT The 21-year-old’s gang change triggered a wave of violence
According to the indictment, the background to the conflict is a war over the drug market in Sundsvall.
At the center of the conflict is a 21-year-old man who is singled out by the prosecutors as the mastermind behind murder plans and attempted murders.
He used to belong to the Dalen network, but switched sides at the end of last year and joined the Foxtrot network after he got into a conflict with a leading figure in his old network.
Now allied with the Foxtrot leader, the man who became known as the “Kurdish Fox”, he would take over the city’s drug market and forcefully outcompete the Dalenna Network Church, which until then had controlled large parts of it.
In the wake of that, several acts of violence took place, including a shooting and two bombing attempts, directed at Dalenan supporters and their relatives.
Further murder plans were in the works, but they were stopped by the police when they carried out a raid on January 26 and arrested several suspects.
A total of 23 people are now on trial for having been involved in the crime.
In addition to the acts of violence, the case basically concerns the handling of large quantities of narcotics.
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