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The alleged clients called him a “soldier.” The 16-year-old from Södra Järva was described as the perfect tool for his plan: assassinate a 20-year-old enemy in the drug industry.
“Your friend has formed a real soldier who seems like a very nice boy, ha ha,” wrote one of the suspects via the encrypted mobile service Encrochat and praised the man who contacted the 16-year-old.
The men, 27, 27 and 33, must have been particularly pleased that the boy did not demand any payment.
“He’s fat loyal he doesn’t even want to stop,” wrote one of those involved in the encrypted chat forum. But maybe they could still give her a watch? another wondered.
Excerpt from Encrochat, which was deciphered by the French police, is the basis for the 16-year-old and three known criminals can now be prosecuted in the Attunda District Court. According to the indictment, the 20-year-old target was tricked into a trap and shot down in May this year at a bus stop in Järfälla, northwest of Stockholm. Despite several shots to the abdomen, the 20-year-old survived, and therefore the criminal classification stops on the assassination attempt.
According to the indictment, the 16-year-old escapes here after shooting a 20-year-old man in Järfälla while on his way to work.
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– I mean that the 16-year-old was the one who held the gun and acted on behalf of the others. He himself denies the crime and otherwise does not want to comment. But in the chat, other people describe that the 16-year-old wanted to do this to show off his front feet, says chamber prosecutor Jenny Clemedtson.
The attack was well planned, according to the prosecution. Planners mapped the victim’s working hours and it is suspected that they provided the 16-year-old with a pistol, an electric bicycle, a mobile phone and an apartment where he could hide. But despite the costs, those involved saw the whole thing, according to the prosecutor, as “budget work.”
– Yes, a person has expressed this way in the chat. I take this to mean that it didn’t cost the person who ordered this murder very much, says Jenny Clemedtson.
The shooter is filmed by a bus camera while waiting for his victim on a park bench on a spring day in May this year.
Photo: Police
The case is being examined by the police. even before the trial as a great success. The proportion of murders solved in the criminal environment has dropped to around 25 percent and the vast majority of those involved escape the police, especially often the organizers.
The 20-year-old who survived the assassination attempt was on his way to work when he was shot at a bus stop in Viksjöleden in Järfälla.
Photo: Police
– But thanks to the chats, in this case we have been able to follow the entire chain and therefore we consider that we have reached the main perpetrator, as well as the instigator and accomplice, says investigation leader Jacob van Rooij in the Stockholm Police Area North.
According to several experts on lethal violence in Sweden, the use of young killers on missions is a growing trend in the Swedish gang world.
– Everything indicates that murder for hire has become more common at the same time that the average age of the alleged perpetrators has decreased, says Joakim Sturup, a criminologist specializing in gun violence.
According to the indictment, the 16-year-old defendant dropped his pistol along the escape route along with a mobile phone and a glove. His DNA could be secured on the last two objects.
Photo: Police
Right now there are several other Teens Detained in Homicide Investigations Across the Country:
● 16-year-old boy, Gothenburg. LVU arrested on suspicion of a fatal shooting in March this year on behalf of a criminal network in Södra Biskopsgården.
● 17-year-old boy, Stockholm. Arrested for arming himself with firearms this spring and preparing for an assassination decided by leaders of criminal gangs in Vårberg.
● 17-year-old girl, Örebro. Arrested for participating in a fatal shooting in July this year along with two older gang members.
● 16-year-old boy, Eskilstuna. Arrested for carrying out a fatal shooting in September this year, probably in consultation with older criminals.
DN has been in touch with all prosecutors in all five cases. Everyone hopes that the prosecution’s decision will be delayed until next year, and pending that, the details of motives and proceedings will be covered by pre-trial secrecy.
However, previous murder investigations confirm that the youths were prepared to kill precisely to “qualify” for future gang membership. The sentences here show that the penalties are generally light, as special reasons are required for a minor to be sentenced to prison. A 2018 high-profile murder case in Rinkeby, the same district that the now 16-year-old defendant hails from, shows, for example, that youth care closed for three years is considered sufficiently interventionist for a 16-year-old convicted of murder.
– It is not very unreasonable that the accused child has been affected by the outcome in previous cases, says the leader of the investigation Jacob van Rooij.
The leader of the police investigation, Jacob van Rooij, at the Järfälla bus stop, where the 16-year-old defendant is said to have shot dead a 20-year-old man on behalf of three others. “Our opinion is that he did it to move up the ranks,” says Jacob van Rooij.
Photo: Joel Danell
Prosecutor Jenny Clemedtson, in turn, believes that older criminals similarly weigh heavy penalties in their decisions.
– If an adult commits murder and is caught, that person runs the risk of being sentenced to life imprisonment. It’s easy to think that’s why you choose to do it this way, he says.
DN review of these Similar cases show that social services have tried not infrequently to intervene in crime prevention. For example, both the 16-year-old boy now charged and the boy arrested in Eskilstuna have been forcibly detained with the support of parents due to signs of criminal escalation.
If an adult commits murder and is caught, that person risks life imprisonment.
“According to the police, NN’s anxiety is high when hanging out with older youth and serious offenders,” the Stockholm Administrative Court declared in spring 2019 in the first mentioned case.
“NN glorifies his criminal friends,” the Administrative Court wrote in Linköping court this spring when the Eskilstuna boy was cared for with the support of the Youth Care Act.
In both cases, the need for care was considered urgent because neither the parents nor the ambulatory care staff had persuaded the children to break their destructive behavior with crime and drugs. But efforts were cut short, in the case of the now 16-year-old defendant because he managed to escape from an HVB home.
Attorney Anton Strand, who defends the 16-year-old, does not want to comment on the personal situation of his client and emphasizes that the child considers himself completely innocent.
– But of course there are some challenges in society in broader terms and it is clear that in general it is important to invest in young people, says Anton Strand.
The trial is expected to begin in early December. The three co-defendants also deny the crime.
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