The conflict between the former childhood friends quickly escalated after a summer evening in 2015 when a young man on one side was shot to death. Within a day, revenge came where a 16-year-old boy was shot dead.
– Friends who were in the core of this circle of friends chose two different sides for each victim in the initial conflict. On one side there were some elderly people called Shottaz and on the other the Death Patrol, says SVT’s reporter Diamant Salihu.
Over time, key figures on both sides of the conflict have been able to be arrested and prosecuted. An important turning point came, according to Salihu, in the summer of 2019 when two people from Shottaz were shot to death in Denmark. Five people on the Death Squad’s side were then sentenced to long prison terms.
Hear SVT’s reporter Diamant Salihu about the conflict between Shottaz and the Death Squad in the video above.