Settlement between criminals

Several people witnessed what has been described as a serious incident of violence at Torshov late on Thursday evening last week.

– The windscreen wipers went on the car which was standing still in the street, but it wasn’t raining. That was wierd.

That’s what a person who witnessed a person trying to drag an unconscious man into a black BMW that was left after the incident in Vossegata says.

A video that Dagbladet has seen confirms the statement.

– He continued to kick him hard in the head, even after he was knocked unconscious, says another witness.

The victims, a 37-year-old Norwegian and a 36-year-old Swedish citizen, were both admitted to Ullevål hospital after the incident.

Acquaintances

Both victims are known to the police. The 37-year-old was charged with having contributed to a shotgun being fired at the house of a former leader of the B gang, on Nordstrand in Oslo.

He was in custody for a period, but the charge against him will today be dropped.

The 36-year-old is on trial in connection with the same shooting incident, and will appear in the Oslo District Court at the end of June to answer the police’s allegations.

According to the man’s lawyer, Karoline Fjellstad Andersen, he pleads not guilty.

Swedish gang profile charged after Nordstrand shooting

Environment in Sweden

Documents from the police in Sweden link the Swedish 36-year-old to the Swedish gang Shottaz, which grew out of the criminal environment in Rinkeby outside Stockholm. In later years, this community is said to have changed its name to FLG, or Filterless Guys.

– I have no comment on that, says Andersen to Dagbladet.

The 37-year-old is the brother of the former leader of the Oslo gang Furuset Bad Boys, and has previously been convicted.

In Oslo’s criminal circles, rumors quickly spread that actors associated with the B gang could be behind the violence that sent the two people to the hospital on Thursday, but according to sources in the police, that hypothesis is weak.

According to Dagbladet’s information, however, the attack on Torshov can be linked to a conflict between Swedish criminals.

Must have visited hospital

Dagbladet has received information from several quarters that people with connections to Sweden must have visited Ullevål hospital after the victims were admitted.

Why they met at Ullevål is uncertain, but source information says that they came to protect the 36-year-old Swedish man.

The police must have obtained surveillance images from the hospital, Dagbladet is informed.

Dagbladet has sent several detailed questions to the Oslo police about the incident and the alleged Swedes who should have visited the hospital, but has so far only received this answer:

– Hypotheses and details of the investigation will not be shared at this time.

Serious bodily harm

A 26-year-old man was arrested on Rodeløkka in Oslo shortly after the violent episode on Thursday, but has since been released.

The man has previously been convicted, most recently in September last year. He was then sentenced in the Oslo District Court to 60 days in prison for violence, damage, theft and threats.

He has also been convicted several times for, among other things, robbery, profit crimes and drugs.

According to police prosecutor Vilde Humlegård in the Oslo police district, the incident has been coded as serious bodily injury. It carries a penalty of ten years in prison, and is usually enough for the police to detain suspected perpetrators.

Marius Ihlebæk is the 26-year-old’s defender.

– He is connected to the violent incident, but has explained that he acted in an emergency. After cooperating with the police in questioning, he was released, says Ihlebæk to Dagbladet.

– The conditions for detention were not present, writes Vilde Humlegård in an e-mail sent via the police’s communications department.

Humlegård further writes that the police have an understanding of the course of events in the case, but do not wish to comment further.