Murder
That children are charged with three murders and seven attempted murders is unique
Oisin Cantwell
News columnist
This is a commenting text. Analysis and positions are the writer's.
Published 16.28
Barn is suspected of ordering and carrying out three murders and seven attempted murders.
Today's charges go down in Swedish criminal history.
In the space of a day last autumn, three people were shot dead in Västberga and Tullinge.
In one of the homes, a 40-year-old man was killed. Another woman in the family was seriously injured. The child she was holding was also injured.
25 hours later, two women were shot dead in the house in Tullinge. A woman and three children escaped without injury.
Three young people, legally still children, will be put on trial as suspects for having played decisive roles in the attacks.
The designated shooter, who was 16 when the murders were committed, as well as a 15-year-old boy who allegedly rented the torpedo and a 16-year-old girl who is charged with aiding and abetting all the murders and attempted murders.
Prosecutor Helena Nordstrand's evidence looks, at least at first glance, quite strong.
From the so-called lawsuit filed this morning at the Södertörns district coort, it appears that the case is based on a chain of circumstantial evidence:
The murder weapon can be linked to the shooter, other defendants are linked to the crimes with DNA, the emptying of cell towers has resulted in disturbing evidence, there are testimonies, letters discussing the crime plan have been seized and so on.
In recent years, we have had to get used to children committing the most serious crimes.
But that they are suspected of being involved in such an extensive case – three murders and seven attempted murders – is unique in Swedish criminal history.
Less unusual, however, is the alleged shooter's bleak background.
Before the boy even had time to turn 15, he had appeared before the police in 28 cases: robbery, assault, illegal threats, assault in a court case.
A diagnosed intellectual disability, the schooling was almost non-existent, the mother says she did the best she could, the father lived in another country, a criminal gang provided, according to a judgment in the Administrative Court, "drugs, money and personal protection".
At the age of 16, he was taken into care according to LVU and placed in a HVB home.
At the youth home, there was so much chaos and disorder that the boy ended up having staff around him all the time, which did not prevent him from escaping without any problems.
Within a week, the murders for which the new charges have been brought took place. The ruthless conflict within Foxtrot had crossed yet another line.
Even in such a numbed-out nation as Sweden is nowadays, a lot of attention was attracted when reckless salvos from automatic rifles were fired into two villas where families were located.
The shooter vomited in the taxi he fled in. A taxi that, according to police sources, ordered from a phone located in Tunisia.
Incidentally, five Swedish gang members are in custody in Tunisia, suspected of terrorist offences.
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