Seven people – five men and two women – are charged with having participated in various ways in the murder in August last year, when a 31-year-old gang leader was shot in the middle of the crowd at the Emporia shopping center in Malmö. The prosecution’s evidence includes mobile phone footage showing how one of the accused women poses and “dances” with a gun believed to be the murder weapon
A then 15-year-old boy has already been sentenced to four years in closed youth care, for firing the fatal shots at the gang leader and for seriously injuring a woman passing by.
After the murder, the boy tried to escape in a taxi and at the address to which he would have gone, the two women were arrested. Several videos were found in their cellphones, where one of them poses with what is believed to be the murder weapon and with an automatic weapon that was in a car. In the car, the police also found 20 kg of explosives, a hand grenade and a large amount of cocaine.
“Debt of two million”
The now 16-year-old boy himself has not said that anyone urged him to kill the gang leader, but the prosecutor’s theory is that it is the people now indicted who are equally behind the deed.
To TT, prosecutor Michelle Stein says that a possible motive could be an internal conflict in the gang:
– It is also a possible motive that there have been debts. If no one tells you how it is, it is very difficult for the police and prosecutors to succeed in finding out what the real motive is. There is information that one of the defendants owed two million to the man who was killed, she says.
The charges
Two men in the gang are charged with inciting murder, inciting attempted murder and causing danger to another. Three of the men are charged with aiding and abetting murder, causing bodily harm, serious crime and causing danger to another. One is also charged with aggravated protection of a criminal.
The two women are charged with aiding and abetting murder. Three of the suspects are also charged with particularly serious crimes against the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods as well as serious drug crimes. Two of them are also charged with serious weapons offences.