Mustafa “Benzema” Aljiburi was previously seen as Rawa “Kurdish Fox” Majid’s right-hand man. Having broken with his former comrade, he has been seen as a priority target during the bloody conflict.
On Monday, he was murdered in a car on a busy street in Baghdad, according to information given to TV4 Nyheterna. A suspected perpetrator, also with Swedish citizenship, is to be arrested for the murder.
The question is what happens now.
“Of course it will be a concern”
In the second half of 2023, the internal Foxtrot conflict claimed many lives, and after a couple of calmer months, the wave of violence may escalate again. This is what Fredrik Sjöshult, crime reporter at Expressen, warns.
– This is a person who has had a very high profile, not least on social media, who has threatened others and said that he has gained ground in Sweden, says Sjöshult in Nyhetsmorgon.
– It is clear that there is concern when a leading player disappears. Then there are other people in this conflict who try to advance their positions, he continues.
The crime reporter believes that the conflict map in gang-criminal Sweden is being redrawn and that there is now a risk of seeing various forms of violence in the fight for the drug market.
The valley network
At the beginning of last year, a number of shootings and bombings were carried out in the Stockholm area, as a result of a conflict between Foxtrot and the Dalen network. During the summer instead, the split within Foxtrot arose, which led to a series of very brutal acts of violence and murder.
Rawa Majid, Ismail “Strawberry” Abdo and Mustafa Aljiburi became the main actors in the settlement during the autumn.
– Now one of these three actors is gone and then the question is who will be the enemy of the enemy in this and whether Dalen will once again advance his positions. This is the kind of thing that makes things messy and creates a great fear of further crime.
According to The evening paper is now equipping the police with enhanced resources in Stockholm and the Uppsala area. Text messages about overtime work have been sent out to police officers in the area, the newspaper writes.
The drug and the war
The gang war around Rawa Majid, the “Kurdish Fox”, is raging. Children kill and are killed. TV4 News tells the story of the crimes and innocent victims.