There is a silence over Mälarhöjden sports ground in Fruängen south of Stockholm. A sea of small flames from grave candles flutter in the light wind on Friday morning. Sweden has been affected by several murders and violent episodes recently. The majority are linked to the ongoing gang war in the country. On Wednesday evening, the conflict came close to children and adults in Fruängen. Lights have been put out and flowers have been laid at the place where a well-known rapper was killed on Wednesday night. Photo: Ismail Burak Akkan / news A Swedish rapper was shot and killed in the area of Mälarhöjden IP. The young artist has several million plays on Spotify. – In a way, you fear for your life when it comes so close. news meets Srdan “Sigge” Mladenovic, head of the tennis club in the area, at the scene of Wednesday’s shooting. For Sigge, it has been an unreal 48 hours dealing with those affected after the shooting in addition to running the tennis club. Photo: Ismail Burak Akkan / news – Before you only heard it on the news. Now it’s here and now, says Sigge. In recent days, MIK Tennis has kept its doors open for anyone who needs a safe place to be in Fruängen. The five courts in the tennis hall are booked out all week. The club management is present for those who need someone to talk to. There is full activity at MIK Tennis from opening at 9am on Friday morning. Leader Sigge is there for those who need someone to talk to. Photo: Ismail Burak Akkan / news The football field, the hockey hall and the gymnasium have been closed since the shooting. – We had full operations here when it happened. The hockey was open, there were three football teams on the field, says Sigge. There were three teams training on the football field at Mälarhöjden IP when a person was shot and killed on Wednesday evening. Photo: Ismail Burak Akkan / news At 18:30 on Wednesday he received a phone call that shots had been fired outside the tennis hall. He himself was at home with his wife and children. – It’s not like it’s 02:00 in an industrial area. It’s the hell with me here, he says and shakes his head. In recent days, they have worked intensively to look after everyone involved. Who has seen anything? Who needs something to talk to? What do parents and the clubs say? – It really has been 48 unreal hours, says Sigge. Several have lit candles at the place where the artist was killed on Wednesday evening. Photo: Ismail Burak Akkan / news Does not feel safe Saghar Rahimi lived in the blocks directly behind the crime scene in Fruängen for eight years. Now she has moved to a quieter area with her family, but on Friday she is at Mälarhöjden IP to see the memorial site for the murdered artist. – I am very scared, because this happens so often now. It doesn’t feel like we live in a safe country, says Rahimi to news. Saghar Rahimi is happy that she now lives in a quieter area of Stockholm. Photo: Ismail Burak Akkan / news She often saw the artist in the area when she lived here. On Wednesday, she was told that her sister had been the boy’s trainer for a period. – They are just children. They should not have to die for this. They have the whole future ahead of them. Escalated after the summer 19-year-old John Lundén-Weldena lives in the area and works in the tennis hall. He stops for a moment at the memorial, before he has to go in and get the hall ready for opening. John Lundén-Weldena met the murdered artist at the tennis club once. He finds it sad to think that he is dead. Photo: Ismail Burak Akkan / news – It is horrible that it should happen at a meeting point for children who should not need to witness such things, says Lundén-Weldena. Club leader Sigge says Mälarhöjden IP sometimes experiences stress and activity from criminal circles. – We will deal with it with the municipality and the police. It goes away, but then it comes back again. After the summer it has escalated a lot, says Sigge. 12 murders in September On Thursday evening, Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson addressed the nation after 12 people have been killed so far in September. There have been 12 murders in and around Stockholm in the past month. Although much is uncertain, the police link several of them to the ongoing gang war in Sweden. In Uppsala, north of Stockholm, a woman in her 60s is killed on 6 September. She was the mother of a gang member. Six days later, a 23-year-old man is shot dead in the same area. On 28 September, a woman in her mid-20s dies after a powerful explosion in a residential area in Fullerö. 21. On September a man in his 20s and a man in his 70s are shot and killed in a bar in Sandviken. Two others are injured. In Stockholm, four murders occur in five days in mid-September: A teenage boy, two men in their 20s and a 39-year-old man die. On 27 September, a well-known male rapper in his late teens is also killed on Mälarhøgden in the south of the city. In Haninge, south of Stockholm, a 13-year-old boy is found shot dead on 11 September. On 27 September, two people are shot in the neighboring village of Jordbro. One of them dies from his injuries. The Prime Minister is proposing several intervention measures, such as preventive wiretapping of criminals, camera surveillance and tougher penalties.
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