It is about two 21-year-olds and a 19-year-old from Linköping. All three are well known to the local police in Linköping. But in Stockholm, they could more easily go under the police’s radar until they were arrested.
The police describe them as “three perpetrators with no known connection to the intended victim” in the preliminary investigation report. It is becoming increasingly common for the gangs in the big cities to take help from outside.
– This is a development that we have seen for several years, says Alexandra Bittner, who is the prosecutor in the case.
“The gang reinforces with travel”
Bittner is supported by Linköping’s chief prosecutor Eva Nemec Nordh.
– That Linköping-based criminals also commit crimes in other cities is not unusual, it happens frequently. But also that the gangs reinforce Linköping by traveling from, for example, Stockholm or Södertälje when conflicts arise here.
For police detectives and crime investigators, it is an aggravating circumstance that criminals leave their home turf to commit crimes in environments where they are not as well known.
Masked and armed
The three men from Linköping were arrested on March 19 in Älvsjö after they were discovered by police detectives who had a 24-year-old gang criminal under surveillance.
The residents of Linköping sat masked and armed with pistols in a rental car and waited for the 24-year-old to show up at an address to which he had been tricked. The investigation shows that they checked into an apartment hotel in Bromma two days earlier.
Lied with the Kurdish fox
The 24-year-old who was to be murdered has been setting the tone in organized crime in southern Stockholm for several years. The criminal gang he belongs to is linked to the man known as the Kurdish Fox and the Foxtrot network.
The 24-year-old figured in the investigation of the high-profile murder of 12-year-old Adriana, but the suspicions against him were dismissed.
Prosecutor Bittner writes in the lawsuit that the three suspects were “extremely brief in their interrogations”. They deny any crime.