The internal power struggle of the criminal organization Foxtrot has led to a cycle of violence in Sweden and Turkey.
In Sweden, gang violence has accelerated after the criminal organization Foxtrot drifted into an internal power struggle.
Foxtrot is a criminal organization operating especially in the Uppsala region, whose founder is 37 years old Rawa Majid. Majid is better known in Sweden by the nickname Kurdikettu.
Majid was born in Iraq and grew up in Uppsala. Since 2018, he has been living in exile in Turkey, from where he has continued to lead the organization.
In Sweden, several acts of violence this year have been caused by Foxtrot and the Dalennavätreket criminal organization’s intensified turf war in the drug trade.
Sweden has imprisoned Majid in absentia and asked Turkey to extradite Majid for arrest. Turkey has not agreed citing that Majid also has Turkish citizenship.
There is a power struggle going on in Foxtrot
The Foxtrot organization has reportedly split into two competing camps in recent weeks, when a former credit man turned against Majid for an unknown reason.
Newspaper Aftonbladet the man who started the power struggle goes by the nickname Mansikka and, like Majid, lives in Turkey. The start of the power struggle led to the spread of violence in Turkey as well.
Turkey announced today, Thursday, that it has arrested five Swedes in connection with the shooting that took place in Istanbul last week.
In revenge for the events in Istanbul, the mother of the man who turned against Majid was shot dead last week in Uppsala, Swedish public broadcasting company SVT tells.
Aftonbladet according to information, the woman was shot on Majid’s order. The police have arrested a 15-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man on suspicion of the woman’s murder.
In recent days, on the other hand, in Uppsala and Stockholm, there have been attempts to strike in revenge against Majid’s relatives. Most recently, yesterday, Wednesday, a 20-year-old man was shot dead in Stockholm.
– in Vasastaden, Stockholm. Third fatal shooting this week. It says something about the state of our society, comments the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson today thursday cycle of gang violence.
– These gangs will not stop until we stop them, Kristersson said.
Director General of the Swedish Police Anders Thornberg said in turn yesterdaythat the recent violence is unprecedented in Sweden.
– We protect our loved ones as best we can, but there are 30,000 members of criminal networks in Sweden and there are hundreds of them in Uppsala as well, Thornberg told the newspaper For Dagens Nyheter.