Fredrik Andersson was only 54 years old. Almost a year ago, he intervened in an attempt to prevent a shooting and was himself shot to death.
It was in March last year that a masked, then 16-year-old boy, entered a gym in central Stockholm carrying a weapon. The intended target was a forty-year-old man who is a member of the motorcycle gang Bandidos. But Fredrik Andersson, who happened to be in the same place, tried to intervene, and in the commotion that ensued he himself was shot. Two days later he died in hospital from his injuries.
On Thursday, the trial for the murder of Fredrik began, where four men stand accused. One of them is the then sixteen-year-old shooter, who is charged with murder and attempted murder. The other three are charged with aiding and abetting murder and aiding and abetting attempted murder.
-Fredrik was a friendly comrade, energetic, he got things done. He was always the first to come when someone asked for help moving and he was out walking at night in the local area, says Fredrik’s friend Rasmus Dahlstedt about his friend.
The friend describes the year after Fredrik’s death and the experience of the trial as extremely difficult. Together with Fredrik’s family, he has been involved in starting a fund in his friend’s memory, where a prize will be awarded every year on Fredrik’s death anniversary a person who in word or deed has shown civil courage and couragelike what Fredrik had.
-Fredrik showed the kindness that many politicians and others only talk about. He thought it was human to intervene.
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