On October 10, 2023, a civilian police car is out in Björklinge to patrol for safety-promoting purposes.
The civil police meet a car, and think that the driver, a man in his 30s, is behaving strangely. The car is stopped and the driver is suspected of driving without a license and being under the influence of drugs.
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The police then search the home of the man and his girlfriend of the same age. There they find 231 kilograms of explosives and a large amount of narcotics.
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The woman and the man were arrested the same evening and later charged with preparation for serious public danger destruction as well as serious drug crime and violation of the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods.
The man has confessed and says in his first interrogation that he is relieved to have told. He says he has worked for “The Fox”, Rawa Majid, and Foxtrot.
55 kilos of explosives disappeared without a trace
The man says that he and his girlfriend were “right in the shit financially”. They then got in touch with a person who asked if they wanted to earn extra money. They thought it would only be about drugs.
But that did not happen.
The couple is accused of having handled a total of 324 kilograms of explosives and two detonators. Approximately 55 kilos of this have not been located. They also possessed seven kilograms of the drug crystal, and 850 grams of cocaine.
“Then we know what this crap is used for”
On October 3, i.e. a week before the couple is arrested, they receive the delivery of explosives to their residence in Björklinge.
In questioning, the couple have been asked why they kept the explosive, and what they thought it would be used for.
– I remember that I said “now we just have to read Aftonbladet a couple of days ahead and see if anything happens, then we will know what this crap is used for,” says the man in questioning.