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The alarm will be received by the police at 11:20 am on March 27. The caller asks for an ambulance to be dispatched.
– He’s hit in the chest. Rush!
The alarm operator immediately sends help to management. It is a garage in Birger Jarlsgatan, a street that runs through the most exclusive areas of central Stockholm.
The caller sounds annoyed but seems to be following the instructions they receive from the alarm operator.
– Please, hurry up. They shot him in the upper chest, the man says.
By the time the police and ambulance have arrived on the scene, the shot man is unconscious and it can be quickly established that he has bullet holes in his chest. The man shot is a 28-year-old man who is pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.
The incident took place in a car workshop that for some years has been partly run by the caller, who happens to be a 27-year-old with a leadership position in the so-called Östberganätverket. The 28-year-old shooter also had a prominent position on this network.
The attack seems to have It was a surprise and the police initially have no clear idea of what the motive is. But when investigators investigate the garage, they find a surveillance camera and soon understand that the murder must be filmed.
A surveillance camera in the auto shop captured the entire process on film. How a man dressed in black with a motorcycle helmet walks through the entrance and opens fire. There are many indications that the man who was shot and killed was not the intended victim.
Photo: Police
Video material turns out to be a gold mine. The film shows how a man completely dressed in black with a motorcycle helmet enters through the entrance at 11.18. In his right hand he has a pistol that he initially hides behind his body. Just seconds later, he meets the 28-year-old and the first shot is fired. This is followed by more shots aimed at the room.
The perpetrator remains inside the room for less than 15 seconds.
There are many indications that the 28-year-old was not the intended victim. The perpetrator’s behavior (he manages to fire several shots at the 27-year-old, among other things, but without shooting) suggests that the 28-year-old got in his way. Prosecutor Marina Chirakova believes that the act also includes the attempted murder of the 27-year-old.
But the video material turns out to contain more than that and provides a unique insight into relationships in the Stockholm underworld.
In a video recording Starting on March 6, several acquaintances suddenly appear and appear to have an informal meeting. These are several people who the police believe belong to the Östberg network, including a man who is now 33 years old and who has been singled out as the actual leader of the network.
A police officer was standing outside the balcony when the 36-year-old suspect threw the alleged murder weapon outside an apartment.
Photo: Police
The 33-year-old has a huge criminal record and, among other things, has been charged with inciting a notorious murder in Bällstavägen in Bromma, when a gang leader designated for a rival network in Bredäng was shot dead with automatic weapons in a car chase in the middle of the day. However, the man was acquitted by the Solna District Court, and of the total of seven people charged with participation in the murder, no one could be sentenced to prison in the end; the evidence did not stand, according to the Court of Appeal.
But an unexpected person also appears in the recording, a 25-year-old now dead.
It was on the night of April 15 this year that passers-by found a body in the Storkällan Cemetery in Älta. The man was tied up in the back and shot in what appears to be an execution.
The 25-year-old was previously a known criminal who, among other things, has had certain connections to the Östberganätverket, about which a police officer with knowledge of the case had previously told DN:
– That it would be part of the network is too much to say. He was more of an “entrepreneur”, he has performed in several different constellations. Drawing hasty conclusions would be wrong, in these circles it may be enough to get rid of yourself in your own ranks to be punished.
The man has also previously been convicted of drug-related crimes and complicity and aggravated battery.
Video material also provides Researchers put puzzle pieces together give an even bigger picture of the connection between different noted events.
On March 10, a café in Vasastan was rocked by a powerful explosion. No one was injured in the incident, but several windows in the building were smashed and the facade was damaged. The cafe’s owner was then a 25-year-old man with connections to the Östberganätverket. He was assassinated a few weeks later.
Photo: Police
Early in the morning of Tuesday, March 10, Vasastan was rocked by a powerful explosion. It turned out to be an explosion aimed at a traditional cafe. No one was injured in the incident, but several windows in the building were smashed and the facade was damaged.
Just a few months before that, the 25-year-old had bought the business. When DN contacted the previous owner, she was shocked by the incident. At the same time, he emphasized that the sale had been made through a broker and that he had not even met the new owner prior to this.
– No no no. I haven’t been there since I was handed over to the new owner. “I haven’t had anything to do with the business since I delivered it, and that was in November,” he said at the time.
Video from March 6, a few days before the explosion in Vasastan, shows how people connected to the Östberganätverket act threateningly towards the 25-year-old. At one point, the 28-year-old holds a pistol in his right hand and at the same time roughly grabs the 25-year-old’s neck. This 28-year-old was the man who himself was shot to death in the same garage on March 27.
Solid police work followed. Witness information describes how the perpetrator of the Birger Jarlsgatan shooting escaped the scene on a dark motorcycle. In video footage from multiple surveillance cameras in central Stockholm, investigators can map the perpetrator’s escape through Birger Jarlsgatan and Sveavägen, and then south. When the man later drives south on Nynäsvägen, he drives very fast. One witness estimates the speed to be at least 250 kilometers per hour, another claims 280.
With the help of surveillance cameras, the perpetrator’s escape was captured. He drove quickly through the city and a witness describes driving at 280 kilometers per hour in Nynäsvägen.
Photo: Police
Researchers succeed in the end Tracking down the alleged driver and a 36-year-old man could be arrested on April 17 this year on suspicion of the murder of Birger Jarlsgatan. This man also has a criminal past, about which he was relatively open during his trial in December. The man has also been convicted several times for minor offenses, but not for violent crimes.
At the scene, in the security room of the Stockholm District Court, where the trial began in early December, the 36-year-old denies committing the murder. At the same time, he admits that he had contact with the cafe’s 25-year-old owner during the current period.
– I know who is. We are family. We’ve done little business with each other, but it’s only been business, says the 36-year-old in court.
According to the 36-year-old man’s version, he had previously had serious abuse of both alcohol and drugs.
– The jacket tore my stomach, so I stopped it. Then it was alcohol and cocaine the rest of the time, says the 36-year-old.
The man admits he met the 25-year-old in a southeastern suburb of Stockholm on the morning of that day, but only to lend his motorcycle to another, unidentified person. Shortly after the murder, this man is said to have returned the motorcycle in a hurry and then disappeared from the scene.
Attorney Marina Chirakova He considers the evidence against the man to be good.
– To be an indication target, it is a very good indication string. We have many, many tracks that are linked to each other. I don’t think there are holes, he says after the last day of the trial.
During the district court hearing, it also emerged that the 36-year-old had previously had contact with Bandidos, whose long-standing conflict with the Östberganätverket has claimed the lives of several people since the fighting began in 2013. But According to Marina Chirakova, there is no indication the motorcycle club.
– This conflict does not appear to be linked to Bandits. It seems more like an internal conflict, he says.
The trial ended on December 17 and falls the day before New Year’s Eve.
