It was on the night of Thursday that a woman in her 60s was shot to death in the Gränby area of Uppsala. She is said to have been the mother of a person with connections to the criminal network Foxtrot.
– The intelligence management has a number of hypotheses that they are working on now, says Jonas Eronen, press spokesperson at police region Mitt, to SVT Nyheter Uppsala.
The network, which is led by the “Kurdish fox”, has recently undergone an internal split. The two phalanxes have leaders who rule over their own areas and there are rivalries between individuals in the phalanxes that explain the motive for various acts of violence.
According to SVT’s sources, former allies must have turned on each other in Turkey. But when they didn’t get along there, one side is said to have recruited teenagers to attack the rival. And they wanted to strike where it would be felt the most – by killing his mother.
Urged relatives to change address
More recently, several of those involved are said to have urged their relatives to change their address. This is because they fear an escalation in the conflict. Among other things, the relatives of the woman who was shot to death are said to have heard before the murder that the “Kurdish fox” was out to kill the family of his former friend who has now become a rival after distancing himself from the Foxtrot network.
Two teenage suspects
Shortly after the shooting death of the woman, two teenagers are said to have been arrested at the accommodation they rented. On Thursday evening, the suspects were arrested for murder.
According to new information to SVT, both suspects were involved in debt before the murder. In addition, shortly before the murder, the police should have received a tip that one of the teenagers was dangerous and was in Uppsala to commit a crime, which Expressen was the first to report. But the information was not concrete enough to do anything about.
– Sometimes it is difficult for us to move forward because the information is too vague, says Andreas Pallinder, head of the investigation section in Uppsala, to Expressen.
But the tip enabled the police to locate the teenagers and arrest them quickly after the murder, according to SVT’s sources, and the evidence is said to be good.