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The trial against the two people accused of being behind the explosions in Husby and Kista is currently ongoing in Solna District Court. A 22-year-old man is charged with inciting aggravated public destruction and a 24-year-old is charged with attempted aggravated extortion.
The first is also, by the Spanish police, suspected of being involved in the notorious torture murder of a Swedish citizen that took place in August 2018. As DN previously reported, the 29-year-old Swede who is the main suspect and still in custody in the case of murder in Spain, he will also be prosecuted. for his participation in the flagrant blackmail that preceded the attacks.
Already the next day The attack, on January 22 of this year, the police indicated that they had hopes of being able to solve the very violent crimes. During the trial, it was learned why: a few days before the explosions, a woman called the police and mentioned both the person to whom the threats were directed and the person she perceived was behind the threats.
The devastation was great after the explosions. In Sorögatan, all residents were evacuated.
Photo: Police
The first time you call 112 is at 5:32 p.m. on January 18. She wants to be linked to the police. The operator wonders what happened. The woman responds:
– Nothing so far, but I’m afraid it will happen.
In that situation he hides her sister and her two children at home. The sister is married to the target of the attack, the children are their common.
The caller is clear: her sister does not want any contact with the police, despite several death threats. Those who threatened her and her children are described as “extremely dangerous and criminal”.
The next time he called, the explosives went off. The fear and despair in their conversation are palpable. It should also turn out that he is right: those suspected of making threats against his sister’s husband are serious criminals. Two of them are suspected of being involved in the aforementioned torture murder, the 29-year-old allegedly controlling parts of the drug trade in Spanish Marbella.
Police scouts capture the now accused men in the picture.
Photo: Police
The 22-year-old has not been convicted for any serious crime in Sweden from before. However, he has not had a single official income for several years; Despite this, the police found a Rolex watch worth SEK 235,000 in his house when they searched the house. It also turns out that he recently gave his girlfriend a watch valued at 150,000. At his home, the police also find large quantities of very expensive designer clothes, including a pair of sneakers worth 9,000.
Also, despite his nonexistent income, he traveled extensively in the year prior to his arrest; to Indonesia, Dubai, Spain, France and Holland, among others.
But it is not the traces of luxury consumption that the man leaves that connects him with the alleged crime. Instead, prosecutor Carl Mellberg claims that the investigation shows that the 22-year-old loaned money to the target of the extortion, a 34-year-old man.
The money was going to stop at 34 You probably invest in some kind of pyramid scheme, but something goes wrong, money is lost. The 22-year-old wants the 300,000 he loaned and begins pushing the 34-year-old for the money as the interest rate skyrockets.
Threats directed at the plaintiff’s wife.
Photo: Police
In the end, the pressure becomes too great, the 34-year-old flees to Egypt. There he was arrested on suspicion of drug and smuggling crimes. Then the 22-year-old begins to threaten the 34-year-old wife and their common and very young children. According to the prosecutor, he has the 24-year-old and the 29-year-old who are imprisoned in Spain to help him. The latter is a friend of the 22-year-old, which the prosecutor considers proven through extensive reviews of the defendants’ phones.
The 29-year-old does not know reason for access to a telephone in the Spanish prison. From there, he writes messages in which he says in part that it is actually his money that has been lent, that he is looking for extortion to take place, says the prosecutor.
The police invested huge resources to investigate and analyze all the digital leads and phone traffic that have been lost. Secret surveillance was also established, targeting the now 22-year-old defendant. In several intercepted conversations, prosecutor Carl Mellberg believes that the same 22-year-old is openly recounting what happened.
It was in January that two explosive charges detonated within minutes: first at Tönsbergsgatan in Husby and then at Sorögatan in Kista.
Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
The 22-year-old attorney and the 24-year-old co-defendant claim they misinterpreted and over-interpreted everything. The 22-year-old has nothing to do with the blackmail or extremely devastating explosions that occurred on the night of January 21-22.
The complet the police investigation has been unable to link anyone to the crime scenes themselves in relation to the explosions. The defendant’s mother, 22, lives a few doors from one of the addresses where she is a child.
The target, the 34-year-old man, is in an unknown location. He has admitted in a telephone interrogation that he has large debts and that there is a connection to the explosions. It doesn’t mean more than that. He has not appeared for district court hearings, which comes as no surprise to the police or the prosecutor.
The trial will continue until Christmas.
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