Swedish police arrested a suspect after three young men aged 15 to 20 were killed in a shooting at a hair salon. Gang Violence In the Scandinavian country.
Tuesday’s shooting took place the day before the Uppsala University city of Valberg Spring Festival, a day in Uppsala, which attracted more than 100,000 people to join the bonfire and celebrations, many of them students.
“One person was arrested,” police commander Erik Akerlund told reporters Wednesday. Prosecutors said the suspect was 16 years old.
The BBC reported that Aklund said the victim’s identity has not been confirmed “100%”.
Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images
Swedish media reported that although police could not confirm the reports, at least one of the deceased had contact with the criminal gang.
“It’s obviously something we’re obviously studying, but we don’t want to just take on that possibility,” Uppsala Police Department spokesman Stefan Larsson told AFP.
Uppsala is the base of two of Sweden’s most notorious gang leaders, Ismael Abdo and Rawa Majid, both considered to be actions planned from abroad. The BBC reported that a new chapter of violence in Sweden’s gang war began when Abdo’s mother was murdered at her home in Uppsala in 2023.
The Scandinavian nation has been working to control shootings and bombings between rival gangs for years.
Akerlund said there were several “those who were considered interested in the investigation”.
He said police had obtained camera lenses from the scene and “had a lot of evidence”.
Attorney General Gunnar Strommer called the killings “very serious” and Uppsala Mayor Erik Pelling told AFP he was “shocked and frustrated” by the incident.
He added: “I’m very angry, too.”
“We are forced to comply with these crimes. I’m frustrated that we can’t solve this problem more effectively,” Palin said.
Recent violence in Sweden
Sweden has been working to curb gang shootings and bomb attacks for years.
Media reports said a mother and her child were seriously injured when a homemade bomb ripped apart on Sunday, adding that a neighbor suspected of being associated with a criminal gang was the real target.
Two people were killed earlier this month in a suspected gang fight in Gothenburg, while a famous rapper was shot dead in a gang fight last year.
Perpetrators are usually young teenagers as contract killers because they are under 15 years old, and are the era of criminal responsibility in Sweden.
The Swedish government has introduced new legislation that will allow police to eavesdrop on children under the age of 15 to curb violence.
According to official data, 92 murders were recorded in 2024, 29 fewer than in 2023, the lowest level since 2014.
According to the Swedish National Crime Prevention Commission, 296 shootings were reported, one in five a year ago.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s center-right minority government is backed by anti-immigrant Swedish Democrats, which came to power in 2022 and vowed to commit crimes.
Sweden is also The worst mass shooting in February When Rickard Andersson, 35, entered the Risbergska Adult Education Center in Orebro, shot 10 people and fired the gun.
Following the shooting, the government and the right-wing Swedish Democrats said they planned to propose proposals to strengthen gun laws, including limiting the use of semi-automatic weapons such as AR-15, such as AR-15.
Currently, Swedish law has involved strict permission for all gun ownership, and has filed applications directly with the National Police Force and potential applicants to prove that it will be used for acceptable purposes such as hunting or target shooting, rather than being abused.
Applicants must also submit a previously obtained certificate of hunting or target shooting. The hunting certificate requires people to pass training courses, and the target shooter must be certified as an active and experienced club member.
In a country with about 10.5 million people, there were only more than 660,000 registered gun owners in early 2024, according to Swedish news agency TT. Those registered owners have about 2 million guns, objects deemed to be guns and parts of weapons that require licenses.
TT reported that 1.6 million of the guns were registered for hunting and another 176,000 were fired.
