Late on Sunday evening, a villa in Nyköping was hit by an explosion. No one has been reported injured, but the case is being investigated as attempted murder. – The site is closed pending bomb technicians who will check that there are no dangerous remains. Then the area will be cordoned off in order to be able to carry out a forensic investigation in daylight, says Mikael Ehne, police officer on duty. Nyköping is located around ten miles southwest of Stockholm. There have been a number of gang-related incidents of violence in several Swedish cities recently. Police chief very worried Police chief Jale Poljarevius, who is head of intelligence in the police in central Sweden, is worried. In an interview with SVT on Sunday, he says that young people who have no experience with weapons are used for contract killings. He believes it increases the risk of killing innocents, and says that the situation in Sweden has not been so dangerous since 1945. According to Poljarevius, it is becoming increasingly common for leaders to take advantage of young people by getting them to commit crimes and take the punishment. In more than 30 cases, the suspected perpetrator is aged 14 or younger, according to SVT. Jale Poljarevius is head of intelligence in the police in central Sweden. Here he is interviewed about one of the violent incidents in Uppsala recently. Photo: Henrik Gustafsson Nicander/TT / NTB – Their young age is used, because we know that Sweden does not have a system that works for young people when it comes to serious crimes. You can kill someone, and then you get two or three years in prison, a maximum of four. You don’t get more, says Poljarevius. Also on Sunday evening and on the night of Monday, there were several incidents in southern Sweden which are being investigated as murders and attempted murders. Facts about recent violence in Sweden Here is an overview of the main points in the ongoing gang war in Sweden and recent incidents of violence. The latest escalation of violence in 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 offenses and planning murder. People associated with the Foxtrot network are suspected of recruiting 14-15-year-olds and then giving them weapons and telling them to shoot. The network is also in conflict with another criminal gang called the Dalen network. Wednesday 6 September: Five Swedish citizens are involved in a shootout in Istanbul. According to Swedish media, the incident is connected to gang violence in Sweden. They are detained in Turkey. Thursday 7 September: A woman in her 60s is killed at night in her own home in Uppsala. The police have confirmed that she was the mother of a gang criminal man. Monday 11 September: A 13-year-old boy is found shot dead in a wooded area in Haninge south of Stockholm. He was reported missing over the weekend. Tuesday 12 September: A 23-year-old man is shot dead in a stairwell in a residential area in Uppsala. The man was a neighbor of a gang criminal. Police say he was on his way to work. Wednesday 13 September: A man in his 20s is shot dead in Vasastan in Stockholm. Thursday 14 September: A teenage boy dies after being found shot in Västertorp south of Stockholm. Saturday 16 September: A 39-year-old man is shot dead in Råcksta in Vällingby west of Stockholm. In addition, during the week there have been two shootings in Uppsala and two in Norrköping without anyone being injured. There has also been an explosion outside a residential building in Bro northwest of Stockholm, as well as a shooting in Jönköping in which a man was seriously injured. Sources: TT, SVT (NTB) Shots fired at an apartment in Handen In Handen, south of Stockholm, shots were fired at an apartment on the night of Monday. – Several people were in the apartment, but no one was physically injured, Swedish police say. The police have cordoned off the site and have an extensive operation in the area. No one has been arrested so far. Handen is located in Haninge municipality, where a 13-year-old boy was found shot dead earlier this month. Murder suspects in Gothenburg In Gothenburg, the police have started a murder investigation after a man in his 20s was found severely abused in the district of Bergsjön in Gothenburg on Sunday evening. The man was found in a forest clearing near a sports hall. He was taken to hospital, and later declared dead, writes Göteborgs Posten. The circumstances surrounding the death are unclear, but it is being investigated as a homicide.
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