Three of the four deaths in the last few days have belonged to gang criminals. The youngest of them was an 18-year-old woman.
Four people have been murdered in the last five days in Stockholm County, Swedish newspapers say. The showdown between the criminal gangs that started on Christmas Day is in a new deadly round.
According to Swedish newspapers, the murders are related to the showdown of the so-called Södertälje network, and several of the victims of the last few days belong to gang criminals. Dagens Nyheterin (you switch to another service) according to the police believe that they have become the innocent victims of a revenge cycle.
The latest victim was a 30-year-old man, who nevertheless has a criminal background.
The man was visiting his son
The man was shot several times in the night between Monday and Tuesday when he was visiting his ex-spouse in Flemingsberg, Huddinge. The couple’s 9-year-old child was also present.
Newspaper Expressen (you switch to another service) according to the man had several prison sentences. He had been convicted of, among other things, robbery, blackmail and illegal threats.
The man was also the target of an attempted murder in October 2020, says Dagens Nyheter (you switch to another service)and her 23-year-old male relative was murdered in February 2021.
Three of the victims are relatives of criminals
Three of the four deaths in the last few days have belonged to gang criminals.
18- and 50-year-old women died in an apartment fire in Alby in southern Stockholm on the night between Friday and Saturday, and a 50-year-old man was shot dead in Tullinge Huddinge on the night between Thursday and Friday.
Dagens Nyheterin (you switch to another service) according to reports, there have been more than 40 shooting incidents and explosions in Stockholm County since Christmas Day. 180 police officers from other parts of the country have also been called to the county to investigate the wave of violence.
Gang leaders fight over the drug market
At the heart of the gang war are Aftonbladet (you switch to another service) including the crime lords known as Kurdiketta and Krikkalainen, who are fighting for the drug market.
According to the newspaper’s sources, each man is trying to scare the other into backing down, which has led to an ever-worsening cycle of violence.
In Södertälje, the work of the police is led by the crime commissioner Gunnar Appelgren, which was disbanding the operation of the original Södertälje network 10–14 years ago. At that time, cooperation between the authorities led to the conviction of more than a hundred criminals, he says Svenska Dagbladet (you switch to another service).
According to Appelgren, the network has since broken into several different wings, and it is behind the current shooting incidents.