A teenage boy was shot dead in Västertorp in southern Stockholm on Thursday. The fatal shooting, which took place shortly before 8 p.m., is the sixth in Sweden in a week.
The bloody wave of violence and many of the shootings must have a clear connection to an internal conflict in the criminal network Foxtrot. The network is said to have split into two phalanxes where key people within Foxtrot turned against gang leader Rawa Majid, also known as the “Kurdish fox”.
Ten shootings in eight days
Thursday 14 September several shots are fired into a door of a residence in Jordbro, south of Stockholm. A person is in the home. The police arrest a teenage boy on suspicion of attempted murder and aggravated weapons offences. A preliminary investigation into attempted murder and serious weapons crime has been launched.
Thursday 14 September shot a teenage boy to death in Västertorp in southern Stockholm. It is the sixth fatal shooting in a week. Several shots are fired. The police are investigating the murder and at the moment no one is in custody. According to information to TV4 Nyheterna, they must have fled in a black car.
Thursday 14 September an apartment in Hageby in Norrköping is shelled. Several shots enter through the front door. Nobody gets hurt. A woman who lives at the address is the mother of one of the five Swedish citizens arrested in Turkey after a firefight in Istanbul linked to the internal split in the top echelons of the Foxtrot network. Four people have been arrested on probable cause on suspicion of attempted murder and serious weapons offences.
Wednesday 13 September a man in his 20s is shot in Vasastan, central Stockholm. The man is taken to hospital but dies from his injuries. Several people witness the incident. The perpetrator is still being hunted by the police. The police are investigating the incident as murder and aggravated weapons offences.
Wednesday 13 September opened fire on a residence in Stenhagen in Uppsala. No one was injured and a 17-year-old boy was arrested in the area. According to information to SVT, a relative of Rawa Majid must have a connection to the address.
Tuesday 12 September shot a man in his 20s to death in Helenelund in Sollentuna. According to information from TV4 Nyheterna, the man was shot in the head. Witnesses at the scene also say that two people were seen fleeing on electric scooters.
Tuesday 12 September shot Mogos Amanuel Tesfemariam, 23, to death with several shots in a stairwell in Sala hille in Uppsala when he is on his way to his job in home care. The police’s theory is that the perpetrator took the wrong person and was actually looking for a relative of the Kurdish fox. No one has yet been arrested following the murder
Monday 11 September the police are called to Handen in Haninge municipality when a 13-year-old boy is found dead in a forest. The teenager was shot in the head and the body is believed to have been moved after the murder, according to information from TV4 Nyheterna. The boy was reported missing.
Saturday 9 September shortly before midnight on the night of Sunday, shots are fired at an apartment in Stenhagen in Uppsala where several people are. According to information to TV4 Nyheterna and according to the police’s theory, the target was the Kurdish fox’s mother-in-law, but that the perpetrators shot at the wrong home. That same night, the police received an alarm about a suspected explosive device at an address in Upplands Väsby – which is linked to a person who is allied with gang leaders, according to information.
Thursday 7 September shot a woman in her 60s to death in a house in a residential area in Gränby in Uppsala. The murder victim’s son, a 33-year-old man who had the alias “Snowman”, is said to be a high-ranking member of the criminal network Foxtrot. The killing is believed to have taken place on the orders of Rawa Majid. Two people, a 19-year-old and a 15-year-old, are detained on suspicion of involvement.
Police fear more shootings ahead and fear the violent conflict will continue.