It was at the beginning of April this year that the police arrested a 17-year-old boy at Gothenburg’s central station with a two-kilogram explosive in a brown ICA bag.
Hours before, he had taken both bus and train between different locations with several stops along the way. He had collected the dynamite in Borås, built it up in Alingsås, and then been arrested with the sharp 2-kilogram explosive charge in Gothenburg.
According to himself, he would have had 2,000 kroner to transport the explosive charge.
Several circumstances point to the bomb being intended for an address in Lindome where a shooting took place instead, just three days after the bomb was seized, according to the police investigation.
Several convicted of the crime
With the help of, among other things, surveillance cameras, images and data collected from the mobile phones of the boy and others involved, the police have been able to map how the boy has moved.
The boy, who was 17 years old when the crime was committed, was sentenced in July for a serious offense against the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods. He was sentenced to youth care and youth services.
Two other boys of the same age were also convicted, for aiding and abetting the preparation of gross public-dangerous devastation.
Very serious explosive charge
The preliminary investigation shows that the dynamite was considered very serious and could have led to serious or life-threatening injuries if it had detonated. But exactly how badly it could have gone depends on a number of different factors.
The explosive charge had a short duration with a burning time of eight seconds and when the boy was arrested at 6pm there were a lot of people in motion at Central Station