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With the murder of the 17-year-old, which took place in Ölsta, between Sigtuna and the outskirts of Märsta, last Monday, three teenagers in Stockholm have been the victims of deadly gun violence, despite society’s assumption the task of protecting them by caring for them in accordance with the Social Services Law.
– When I received the news that he had been murdered, I felt abandoned. Many of us knew there was a threat against him. Police have done everything in their power to protect him, says courtroom prosecutor Daniel Jonsson, who with the brutal death has removed suspicions against the 17-year-old deceased.
According to Åsa Hansson, deputy director of serious crimes in the South Police area and several crime investigators who want to remain anonymous, it is true that great resources have been invested to try to strengthen security around the 17-year-old. Despite individual conversations with the child, the involvement of the police personal protection group, offers to participate in the deserter’s activities, and the fact that they had a so-called “family liaison officer”, a liaison officer especially designated by the police to establish contact with the family – they were not successful.
The hope therefore was for social services, with whom the police say they also had close contact.
It was social services who took care of the 17-year-old. When the murder in which he is suspected of being involved took place in Liseberg, Älvsjö, on Midsummer’s Day, he was placed, through a private consulting firm, in a foster home with a 29-year-old single man in Uppsala .
However, suspicions led to his arrest. After two months, he was released on bail, due to his young age. Then the Skärholmen social services had decided to place him in a Sisters’ house in Kalix.
During the preliminary investigation into the murder, it emerged that no one was in control of the then 16-year-old. Neither the privately run family and home treatment business that sold the service to social services, nor the person with whom it was placed. That person even lied to the police about the child’s residence address. He claimed that the boy lived with him, but when the police searched the house at the address, a completely different family lived there who needed protection. The 16-year-old had moved to another apartment on his own initiative.
But no alarm bells seems to have called. While at Sis’s home in Kalix, the 16-year-old was involved in a high-profile release attempt. In the same month, his best friend was also murdered, an 18-year-old who was detained for a short time this summer, also a suspect in the murder of the now 17-year-old who was suspected.
Despite this indication of the child’s great need for support and that there was a serious threat, social services decided in December that he no longer needed to stay in a closed home for Sisters.
Once again he was placed in a one-man family home, with the same private contractor who so desperately failed to provide him with protection, care and support during the summer.
– Absolutely crazy, it is incomprehensible to us how it can happen, says the police who carried out the murder investigation.
The murder was one settlement within the so-called Östberganätverket. The background was a brawl between former friends where one phalanx was accused of stealing drugs and money from another. A debt must have arisen and a designated gang leader decided that one of his childhood friends would die, possibly to set an example of his violent capital.
The preliminary investigation into the murder in Liseberg shows that the 31-year-old gang leader got the then-16-year-old to lure the former childhood friend to the address where he was shot by two people. Witnesses to the investigation say they saw when the gang leader provided guns to the shooters just before the shooting, but none of the designated shooters have been notified of any suspected crime. However, the 31-year-old was notified of suspicion of a felony weapons crime and of complicity in the murder, but the suspicions were dropped due to lack of evidence.
DN has contacted Skärholmen social services for comment. They have promised to return.
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