24-year-old Soha Saad died after a bomb detonated outside her home last September – today three men were charged with her murder.
Surveillance footage from the scene shows how the bomb, a microwave oven filled with 13 kilograms of dynamite, was placed outside the house.
– It is an enormously powerful bomb, says Thomas Bältner, senior prosecutor.
On September 28, 2023, the 24-year-old newly graduated doctor Soha Saad was sleeping in her home in Uppsala, unaware of what was happening outside her house.
At four in the morning, a car with two men arrived on the street in Fullerö, a residential area outside Uppsala, according to the indictment. The bomb is also said to have been transported in the car. The bomb consisted of a microwave oven filled with 13 kg of dynamite explosives, a detonating device and stubby wire.
– It is an enormously powerful bomb, says Thomas Bältner, senior prosecutor in the case.
The crime was captured by surveillance cameras
Surveillance cameras from the area show a person getting out of the car, carrying the bomb, after which it is placed outside a house – next to Soha Saad’s house. The person then lit the stub wire, and ran for his life back to the car.
Soha Saad was in her house when the bomb detonated. She suffered fatal injuries to her head and upper body. Several other people were injured by the detonation.
Thomas Bälter, senior prosecutor in the case, describes how several witnesses contacted the police after the explosion, with information that a white car drove away from the scene. It was also a police officer who lived in the area who managed to film the white car.
The prosecutor believes that the act is connected to the conflict within the Foxtrot network, and that the real target was the house next to Soha’s.
Found lighters but no cigarettes
– Police patrols in Uppsala were able to find a white Golf that came from the Fullerö direction on the E4. And when you checked that car, it turned out that there were two men in it and they had some strange information about what they had been up to, says Thomas Bältner, senior prosecutor and continues:
– For example, they found lighters but no cigarettes. They also found a mobile phone and in it they found these chats from the instigators.
On Friday, three men born between 1990 and 2004 were charged for the explosion in Fullerö outside Uppsala. The crime classifications are murder, attempted murder, gross public dangerous destruction and gross violation of the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods.
The main hearing against the men starts on August 12 in Uppsala district court.