Monday evening in Fagersjö, the night before Tuesday in Lidingö, Tuesday evening in Farsta strand. After a month of bombings in the Stockholm area, three explosive charges detonated within a day.
Written on the addresses in Fagersjö and Lidingö are people accused of violent acts within the framework of the internal conflict in the fragmented Foxtrot network.
In both cases, it is a matter of acts directed against the phalanx that allied itself with the 35-year-old leader of the gang who happened to be in conflict with Rawa Majid. Both trials began on Wednesday.
“Purely theoretically, it could be a sign from the opponent’s side that a wave of revenge is now starting,” he says Jale Poljarevius, head of intelligence in police region Mitt.
Jale Poljarevius, head of intelligence region Mitt. Archive image.
The gang leader’s mother was murdered in her home in Uppsala last September. At the address in Fagersjö lives a young man accused of having hired torpedoes who, in close connection with the murder, are said to have traveled to Uppsala to kill other relatives of the man.
Risk of retaliation
At the address on Lidingö lives a 21-year-old man accused of having at the same time tried to shoot the parents of a man in his 20s who is connected to a gang that, according to several media outlets, sided with the top of the gang.
The trial about the murder of the mother is also ongoing. In connection with charges being brought, the police flagged the risk of revenge. Expressen reports, with reference to police sources, that the explosion in Fagersjö is suspected to be precisely revenge linked to the murder of the mother.
— Sometimes you attack opponents directly, sometimes relatives, sometimes apartments, sometimes business movements. There are different ways to attack and try to break down the opponent, says Poljarevius, who at the same time does not want to comment on the individual case.
“Renewed Activity”
After a relatively quiet month, March has begun with five bombings. On the night of Wednesday, minutes apart, there were also two detonations in stairwells on the same street in Västra Frölunda in Gothenburg.
Last week, a 25-year-old man was shot dead in Skärholmen in southern Stockholm, the first fatal shooting in the capital in four months.
– Even at the break point between January and February, tendencies towards something that could be compared to a new wave of violence were seen, but then it subsided. Now we very clearly see renewed activity. It may look calm, but it is a fragile calm. We saw that then and we still see that now, says Poljarevius.