Since the Christmas holidays, shootings and bombs have been almost daily in Stockholm. According to the police, the attacks are connected to Sundsvall’s drug lordship. Now the bombs are used to scare the enemy’s loved ones.
STOCKHOLM Rinkeby, Enskededalen, Gubbängen, Farsta….
Since Christmas Day, there have been ten shootings and nine explosions in the Stockholm region. Three people have died in the attacks.
The most recent attacks are from last night and last night. At ten in the evening a bomb exploded in Årsta and in the morning someone shot in Farsta towards the apartment where the residents were at home.
In recent weeks, the attacks have been of a different nature. They don’t just happen in troubled neighborhoods anymore. For example, on Tuesday, a bomb exploded in “Stockholm’s Kallio” or Södermalm and destroyed the entrance to the restaurant.
Relative to the number of attacks, there have been few personal injuries so far.
The police have arrested ten people, but the attacks continue. Ola Österling The Stockholm police reviews In an interview with Swedish radio (you will switch to another service)that the explanation is that there are approximately 1,500 members of criminal gangs in Stockholm.
According to Österling, now it seems to be a showdown between criminal gangs with guns and explosives.
In several cases, either criminals already known to the police or relatives of the leaders of two criminal gangs live in the houses hit by attacks.
The battle for domination of Sundsvall’s drug trade
For example According to information from SVT’s crime reporters (you will switch to another service) the police’s assumption is that the root cause of the violence is the fight for control of Sundsvall’s drug trade.
The drug trade has been dominated by a 24-year-old gang leader who is staying According to Dagens Nyheter (you will switch to another service) now abroad. He is now being challenged by a criminal leader who has moved to Turkey and is known by the nickname “Kurdiska räv” or “Kurdi-Cat”.
SVT’s crime reporter Diamant Salihu (you switch to another service) got in touch with a crime boss in Turkey last year. According to Turkish sources, Turkish citizenship was arranged with money, i.e. real estate deals.
According to SVT, the Turkish police questioned him, but let him go free. In criminal circles, Turkey is called a gangster’s paradise.
Family members are the target of intimidation
A special feature of the Christmas and early year attacks has been that they have partly targeted addresses where family members or other relatives of the gang leaders live or work. This is suspected to have been the case at least in the restaurant attack in Södermalm, the attack on the office building in Kista and the shots fired at the entrances of apartment buildings or apartments in various parts of Stockholm.
Although the main characters of the gang fight who are now suspected are adults, more than half of the suspects are police Friday information (you will switch to another service) includes people under 18 years of age.
The social democratic party in the opposition demanded on Friday that preventive measures must now be extended to start at six years old.
Crime professor: Other violence in Sweden has decreased
Retired Professor of Criminal Justice Jerzy Sarnecki does not want to downplay acts of violence, but wants to put them into perspective in an interview with ‘s Swedish-language editor.
According to Sarnecki, all other violence has decreased in Sweden in recent years, including the traditional Nordic acts of violence committed while drunk.
Sarnecki considers the motives of gang violence incomprehensible.
– We intimidate, seek status and take revenge. Personal revenge seems to weigh a lot. And as the criminals themselves justify: you have to kill or you will be killed yourself.