The gangsters in Tunisia ordered taxi trips for murderers

Five Swedish gang members are in a Tunisian terror prison.

But before the arrest in October, they must have been driving the spiral of violence that is plaguing Sweden.

The police suspect that the men ordered taxi trips for murderers in Sweden, according to Aftonbladet’s information.

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Five Swedish men, including Elias Bäck, 29, and rapper Remon “5iftyy” Ghide, 22, who are both linked to the infamous Bridge Network, traveled around Tunisia last fall.

At the same time, a raging gang war was going on within the Foxtrot network – one of the Bro network’s closest allies – at home in Sweden.

During September and October, acts of violence succeeded each other almost daily. In many of the cases, it was about assassination commandos who had been assigned to kill either on Rawa Majid’s side in Foxtrot, or the breakaway phalanx that chose Ismail Abdo’s side.

Many of both the instigators and the torpedoes have been arrested, but several are still at large. However, the police suspect that several of the killers’ taxi journeys have been ordered by people abroad.

And now the police have seen how several of the taxi trips were ordered from Tunisia, according to Aftonbladet’s information.

Suspected of being connected to several crimes

When the five men were arrested in Tunisia last autumn, the suspicions involved, among other things, drug offenses and weapons offences. But pretty soon the suspicions also started to be about terrorist crimes, and the men were therefore taken to the notorious terror Mornaguia prison in Tunis.

Documents seen by Aftonbladet show that Swedish embassy personnel have been given permission to visit those arrested in prison, but it is still unclear what the suspicions against the men are actually based on.

Swedish police have on several occasions asked the Tunisian police for more information about the case. Swedish police want to bring the men back to Sweden to prosecute them for crimes here.

Among other things, one of the men would have been brought to justice fear serious weapons crime in Sweden in a trial that would have been held earlier in May.

But documents that Aftonbladet has seen, and several sources, state that there are more suspicions against the men, and that they are believed to have been involved in the planning of attacks in Sweden.

Among other things, they are believed to have ordered a taxi for a perpetrator of a highly publicized case in Stockholm last fall, according to information.

Flees abroad to escape the police

Several of the gang leaders who are connected to the gangs and gang wars have taken refuge abroad in recent years to escape rivals and the Swedish police.

– It is not a new thing that they do it. We have seen it before in, for example, Spain, Denmark and Turkey. You stick abroad if you have a threatening image, both to escape justice but also to avoid being found by other criminals, Gunnar Appelgren has previously told Aftonbladet.

Many of them are in Turkey and Iraq, but others have also traveled to African countries such as Somalia or, in this case, Tunisia.

In the autumn, sources within the Tunisian judiciary stated that the Tunisian police had been keeping an eye on the five men since they entered the country.

It soon dawned on the police that the men were connected to serious crime and a notorious network.

The men are also believed to have been part of an attention-grabbing live broadcast on Instagram where they talked about the Swedish gang war and threatened their rivals.

Shortly afterwards, the Tunisian police swooped in and arrested them near the tourist town of Hammamet.

Crime decreased after the arrest

Around the same time as the men were arrested in Tunisia, the situation calmed down somewhat in Sweden. Whether there was a connection between that and the fact that the crime in Sweden decreased in intensity is unclear, but several police officers that Aftonbladet spoke to during the fall believed that it was connected.

– The violence decreased shortly after the boys were arrested in Tunisia. It is believed that this is one of the reasons why it is a little calmer now, a source has previously told Aftonbladet.

How the gang members are doing in the Tunisian prison is unknown. It is also uncertain when, and if, they will be extradited to Sweden. However, Swedish police have offered their help to the Tunisian justice system.

– We have no insight into the investigation, but we have announced several times that we are ready to assist and be able to take the measures that they want done in Sweden. But that has not happened yet, Håkan Wall, head of unit at the police’s national operational department (Noa), has previously said.