15-year-old killed in Sweden: – Unbelievable with children in gang wars

The restaurant murder of a 15-year-old in Sweden is linked to a wave of violence triggered by the drug war in – and around – the capital.

In Sweden, there are strong reactions on Sunday to the fact that a 15-year-old was shot and killed in a sushi restaurant the night before.

The person who is suspected of the murder is also under the age of 18.

According to SVT’s sources, the murder is connected to a recent wave of violence in Stockholm and Uppsala, where two criminal gangs regularly clash over the drug trade.

– It is unimaginable that children are involved in a gang war, says a person in the area to Aftonbladet.

A woman tells the same newspaper how she entered the restaurant and saw the boy lying on the floor:

– I think he was already dead, but I tried to do everything I could. It took time before the police and the ambulance arrived. I wish I could have done something more, says the woman.

Police officer Reine Berglund tells Expressen that he arrived at the scene and recognized the 15-year-old.

– It is terrible. There is a boy we have been worried about recently, says Berglund.

Explosions

That same night there were explosions in two suburbs of Stockholm.

The explosions caused material damage to the entrance to two homes, but no one was injured, the police said.

One home is connected to a well-known Swedish rapper, according to Expressen, which also writes that the rapper is currently abroad.

The police are investigating whether there is a connection between the shooting incident and the explosions.

Dagens Nyheter has interviewed a woman who lives near another block of flats where there were explosions earlier in January:

– Many people are scared, but I am the most cursed, she says.

According to the prosecutor’s office, a boy under the age of 18 was arrested at three o’clock on the night of Sunday. He is suspected of having contributed to murder.

The shooting incident took place on Saturday evening at 6pm inside a sushi restaurant in the Skogås district south of Stockholm, according to Aftonbladet.

On Sunday, forensic technicians continued their investigations at the site, which has been cordoned off. The police are investigating whether the shooting incident was caught on film by surveillance cameras, and a number of people have been questioned.

Greater wave of violence

Stockholm has been rocked by an exceptionally strong spiral of violence since Christmas Day.

a became a well-known person in a criminal gang milieu was shot and killed in the district of Rinkeby.

Read more about the background to the conflict: “TO ALL DOES”

This has happened:

Shooting episodes and explosions have replaced each other in the Swedish capital in recent weeks. In total, at least 20 violent crimes have been linked to gang criminals in the past month:

• 25 December: A man with links to a criminal gang is shot dead in the suburb of Rinkeby, west of Stockholm.
• On December 27, there was an explosion in a stairwell of a residential complex where a person connected to gang crime lives. Both this man and the man who was killed on Christmas Day should have figured in the investigation after the murder of the rapper Einár in 2021.
• On 28 December there was an explosion at a residential building in Farsta, a suburb south of Stockholm. There were also two shooting incidents south of Stockholm. A 15-year-old is suspected of attempted murder after the one shooting.
• On 31 December, three people were injured after being shot in the suburb of Vällingby west of Stockholm. There was also an explosion in the suburb of Rågsved south of Stockholm.
• On 2 January there were explosions in a stairwell in a residential complex in the suburb of Bagarmossen, south of Stockholm, as well as in Grimsta, west of Stockholm.
• On 4 January, a man was shot dead in Jordbro, some distance south of Stockholm. A man in his 40s is injured.
• On 5 January there was an explosion in a housing complex in the suburb of Farsta, south of Stockholm.
• On 10 January there was a shooting incident at a train station in the town of Kungsängen northwest of Stockholm.
• On 12 January, shots were fired at a residential complex in the suburb of Järfälla, west of Stockholm. No one was injured.
• On 14 January, bullet holes were found in a door to an apartment in the suburb of Märsta, north of Stockholm.
• On 17 January there was a powerful explosion at a restaurant in the suburb of Kista, north of Stockholm.
• On 18 January there was an explosion at a gate to a business premises in Kista. There was also an explosion in a stairwell in Årsta, a district in the south of Stockholm.
• On 19 January there was another explosion in Årsta, at the same time as shots were fired at an apartment in Farsta.
• On 20 January, a man was shot and killed in the suburb of Huvudsta, west of Stockholm. Shots were again fired at an apartment in Farsta.
• On 21 January, shots were fired in the suburb of Dalen, south of Stockholm. Two of the three who were subsequently arrested were under the age of 18.
• On 25 January, shots were fired at a door in the small town of Södertälje, southwest of Stockholm.
• On 26 January there was a powerful explosion in an industrial area in the suburb of Botkyrka, west of Stockholm.
• On 28 January, a 15-year-old was killed at a sushi restaurant in Huddinge, south of Stockholm. Later that night, two explosions occur in the suburbs of Upplands-Bro and Upplands-Väsby north of Stockholm.