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Of: Christoffer Nilsson, Mattias Sandberg
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The killers stay away from justice.
Families are left in ruins.
Aftonbladet has mapped the unsolved murders in Stockholm.
– You just want to know why someone kills your son, says Carolina Sinisalo, 15-year-old mother of Robin who was shot and killed five years ago.
The time it took for the finger to pull the trigger was the time it took for Carolina Sinisalo’s life to break.
A masked man shot dead his son Robin outside the family home in Akalla. Robin had just turned 15 years old. He was between the muzzle of the gun and his five-year-old brother Alejandro. The brother was also shot. He was paralyzed by his injuries.
Carolina Sinisalo has spoken several times about what happened on January 19, 2016.
Now will be the time that passed, the answers that never came and the people who stayed.
After Robin’s death, it was two years before he could cook again. It was three years before I lost hope of finding out why it happened.
Now five years have passed.
Photo: Jerker Ivarsson
Robin, Carolina Sinisalo’s 15-year-old son, was killed in Akalla in 2016. The murder is unsolved.
Photo: Jerker Ivarsson
She never thinks that she will find out who killed him.
“I could only cry”
She usually says that her son died but that she lost her entire family. Nobody was the same again.
– I find it a bit difficult to understand that five years have already passed. Grief and pain are the same now as before. Sure, today I can smile when I think of him. Then I could only cry. At the same time, I also think a lot about what has happened with the subject during these years, he says.
What do you see then?
– How many more families are there. I’m afraid it’s too normal. In the media, there will be a little headline or article that there has been a shooting again. The same is true in society between people. Has it really happened that we think it is normal for children to kill each other?
“Don’t be a criminal”
In Aftonbladet’s “Networks” review, we have mapped unsolved murders in Stockholm that the police link to criminal settlements. During the 2015-2019 five-year period, there are 52 murder victims, mainly young men.
The murder of Robin is one of the cases included in the compilation.
– Everyone who gets shot is not a gang criminal, so you can’t be too naive either. Not everyone is shooting two people in the middle of the day. Of course, it is criminal in that sense, but I am fighting with picks and claws to prevent my children from being branded as gang criminals. Because they weren’t, says Carolina Sinisalo.
Photo: Private
Robin was shot and killed outside the family home in 2016.
Police have also said that they do not believe Robin was a criminal. However, they believe that the reason can be found in the background of one of the brothers.
Carolina Sinisalo thinks that very little attention ends up with the people behind the statistics.
– It is very dangerous that we criminalize the victims. Human empathy has disappeared. You read about a teenager who is shot and killed in Rinkeby. “Well, the police know. Nobody cares.” But the family has lost their son. You don’t stop loving someone because they made the wrong decision in life, he says.
I should have turned 20
Although the pain is as strong now as it was then, other things have faded over time. Outside of the family gate, there is still a visible bullet hole in the fence. Carolina Sinisalo previously could not pass without starting to cry.
Now she can feel a closeness.
– I can see how the boys stand, jump and play. Robin would always make everyone laugh. Or was he standing there looking bitter in the morning, he hated getting up early. I usually think of good memories when I’m there now. Our neighbors probably wonder how normal we are because sometimes I just stand there and laugh at myself, she says.
At the beginning of January, Robin would have turned 20 years old. Carolina Sinisalo often wonders who she was, what she had done and what she looked like today.
But these are questions that you will never get answered. He also doesn’t think he’ll ever know why Robin was murdered.
– I don’t care who did it anymore. That person has to live with it for the rest of their life.
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