In just over two weeks, nine people have been shot dead in Sweden. Police refer to the wave of violence as “exceptional.”
- In just over two weeks, nine people have been shot dead in Sweden. Police described the wave of violence as “exceptional.”
- Galle Bulgarevius, head of the Swedish police’s intelligence department, describes the situation as a “low-intensity war situation.”
- Among the events that sparked the wave of violence was the killing of a woman in her sixties, the mother of a former gang member, which appears to be the starting point for increased violence.
- Other victims included 13-year-old Milo, who was the victim of serious gang violence, a 25-year-old who was on his way to work, and a man in his 20s known to police.
– If you had asked me if something like this could happen, I might have answered, “It has never happened in my life, impossible.” “It might happen in an American movie.”
This is how the head of the Swedish police intelligence department, Galli Bulgarevius, describes the wave of violence to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
He explains that those recently arrested by the police are very young, and are not trained to use the type of weapons they actually use. He says he doesn’t think they are capable of doing this in a “normal” state, but they use drugs to motivate themselves to commit crimes.
– And if you are untrained, drugged, and perhaps frightened, you are a life-threatening threat, Bulgarevius says.
– What we are in now, and no one will want to admit it, is one Low intensity war situationLow intensity war situationHe describes it as a state of war, but with less intensity than actual war.To be honest, he says.
There was also a violent incident in Sweden on Monday evening: three people were injured after a powerful explosion in Stockholm. According to Aftonbladet newspaper, the explosion occurred at the address of a person related to a person said to be in conflict with a criminal network.
These are the events that shook our neighbor in recent weeks:
7 September at 01.03 – Granby, Uppsala
A woman in her 60s was shot inside an apartment building in Granby. Two young men, aged 15 and 19, are suspected of committing the murder.
The woman is the mother of former gang member Ismail “Groundhog” Abdo, who was seen as the right-hand man of gang leader Rao Majeed, known as the “Kurdish Fox.” He leads the so-called Foxtrot network.
Today, the two former partners are in bloody conflict with each other, and according to Aftonbladet, it is precisely internal disputes in this gang environment that are behind the ongoing wave of violence.
The woman’s death is the starting point of the spiral of violence that has struck Uppsala and Stockholm ever since.
Two days later, someone opened fire on a house elsewhere in Uppsala. The target is Majid’s mother-in-law. But the shots misfired, hitting a nearby house where a completely different family lived. No one will get hurt.
September 11 at 06.10 – Hand Hanninge
A boy has been found dead in a wooded area south of Stockholm. It soon turns out that he is 13-year-old Milo, who disappeared two days ago.
Milo is the youngest victim of the ongoing wave of violence. The 13-year-old was the victim of “gross and completely reckless gang violence”.
No one has been arrested for his murder.
September 12 at 05.16 – Sala Pak, Uppsala
Early this morning, Mogos Amanuel Tsfemariam, 25, was on his way to work. He’ll never get there. He was shot and killed.
But he may not have been the target of the killing. According to information from Aftonbladet newspaper, it appears that the perpetrator was looking for another person. At the same address as Tsvimariam, who is said to have never been involved in any gang environment, lived a relative of the “Kurdish Fox” – a man in his fifties.
The next day, two more shooting incidents occurred in Uppsala.
September 12 at 17.27 – Hellenlund, Sollentuna
North of Stockholm, an old police acquaintance in his 20s was shot dead. He is said to have been shot in the head before one or more people left the scene on an electric motorcycle shortly afterwards.
The man became the second victim of shooting in Sweden today.
September 13 at 21.16 – Vasastan, Stockholm
In central Stockholm, a young man began shooting 19-year-old Giovanni.
It is not clear why the 19-year-old was shot, but sources told the Swedish newspaper that the murder could be linked to the ongoing wave of violence in the gang environment in Sweden.
September 14 at 19.54 – Västertorp, Stockholm
A new day and another shooting in the Swedish capital. Several people have reported what they believe may have caused the shooting in Vastertorp. When police arrived, they found an injured 17-year-old outside.
He later died in hospital.
Police believe he was shot somewhere other than where he was found.
September 16 at 21.12 – Vallingby, Stockholm
On another evening, police found a man with a gunshot wound after people reported what sounded like a series of shots being fired.
Not even this man’s life could be saved. He was only 39 years old.
September 21 at 22.18 – Sandviken
The lone perpetrator entered a local bar in Sandviken, some distance north of Uppsala, and opened fire.
Four people were injured. Two of them, a man in his 20s, who may have been the target of the shooting, and blinded 71-year-old Officer Eric Fieri, lose their lives.
Among the others injured by bullets was an employee who was shot in the knee.
Police say the shooting may have been due to a personal conflict, but they do not rule out that it was gang-related.
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