SEVERAL SHOOTING EPISODES: The police are investigating a block of flats in Norrköping on Friday evening, where several shots were fired at a window. Photo: Magnus Andersson/TT /
The wave of violence arouses fear in Sweden. On the night of Monday, the police are investigating a powerful explosion in Nyköping as attempted murder, and links to gang riots are being investigated.
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– The place is blocked off for technical investigations. Information is currently being gathered through interviews with witnesses and others who have information about the incident, says the police’s duty commander Mikael Ehne in an update to the press.
The police have an assumption about what could be the motive for the act.
– But when we have had such a large scale of assassinations in large parts of the country, we will not go out with what we know and believe at the present time, but wait with that bit, says Ehne to the Swedish news agency TT.
According to Aftonblandet, the police are investigating whether the explosion can be connected to the criminal Foxtrot network.
This network, which is controlled by a man called “The Kurdish fox”, is connected to several of the murders in Sweden recently.
School employee suspended
As part of the ongoing gang conflict, family members have also been shot at by gang members, writes The evening paper. Last week, the mother of a gang member was killed in Uppsala, Sweden.
This and similar incidents have caused fear among parents at a school in Norrköping, where an employee is related to one of those involved in a criminal rivalry.
Some parents they have spoken to refuse to send their children to school, writes the newspaper.
The employee is now temporarily out of work, says the municipality’s education director Ester Alavei.
She says that the municipality is working with the police to assess the security situation, and that the suspension is temporary until they have finished this work.
– I have the best interests of the children and the staff in mind. If a member of staff has an image of a threat towards them, that person should not be near pupils, she says and adds:
– This situation is a heavy, national problem that casts a shadow over cohesion. We do what we can at municipal level.
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Episodes of violence in Sweden recently
The escalation of violence in cities such as Uppsala and Stockholm is linked, among other things, to an internal conflict in a criminal gang called the Foxtrot network. The network’s leader is RAWA Majid from Uppsala, also called The Kurdish Fox. He has moved to Turkey, where he has obtained citizenship, and is wanted for serious drug crimes and murder planning. People associated with the Foxtrot network are suspected of having recruited 14-15-year-olds, then giving them weapons and asking them to shooting. The network is also in conflict with another criminal gang called the Dalen network. On Wednesday 6 September, five Swedish citizens were involved in a shootout in Istanbul. According to Swedish media, the incident is connected to gang violence in Sweden. They are in custody in Turkey. On Thursday 7 September, a woman in her 60s was killed in her own home in Uppsala. The police have confirmed that she was the mother of a gang criminal. On Monday 11 September, a 13-year-old boy was found shot and killed in a wooded area in Haninge south of Stockholm. On Tuesday 12 September, a 23-year-old was shot and killed in a stairwell in a residential area in Uppsala. The man was a neighbor of a gang criminal. The police say he was on his way to work. On Wednesday 13 September, a man in his 20s was shot and killed in Vasastan in Stockholm. On Thursday 14 September, a teenager dies after being found shot in Västertorp south of Stockholm. Saturday 16. On September a 39-year-old man is shot and killed in Råcksta in Vällingby west of Stockholm. In addition, last week there were two shootings in Uppsala and two in Norrköping without anyone being injured
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On the night of Monday, shots were also fired at the door of an apartment in Handen in Haninge, south of Stockholm.
– Several people were in the apartment, but no one was physically injured, the police said.
The police are also investigating a death in a forest in Gothenburg as a possible murder. They have not commented on whether this case may also have a link to the recent wave of violence.
– The man has been identified and next of kin notified. We currently do not know what has happened, says police officer on duty Johan Ljung The evening paper.
The incidents join the series of violent episodes and murders in Sweden in the last two weeks.
On Sunday, the Swedish government called in a crisis meeting with the council against organized crime in the country. This council was established in December last year, and is chaired by Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmar.
– We will mobilize the crime prevention side, he added SVT.
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Published: 18.09.23 at 02:44
Updated: 18.09.23 at 04:25
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