After three months of relative calm, conflicts of organized crime have intensified again in Sweden. For four consecutive nights, explosions of planted bombs have been heard in the wider Stockholm area, and last weekend, two men were killed in Gothenburg.
Photo: X All indications point to a flare-up of conflict between opposing criminal clans.
In the mentioned explosions, there were no casualties, and only minor material damage was done because they were primarily timed as warnings to individuals in the criminal underworld. All explosive devices were planted in front of the entrances of residential buildings and houses where known members of the Foxtrot clan or their family members lived.
However, the targets were mostly addresses where arrested or convicted members of the Foxtrot clan lived, which is interpreted as a message that they will not be able to feel safe even in prison.
“The intensity of violence moves in waves, and the situation can quickly change in both directions. In the last seven days, conflicts have accelerated,” says Tommy Gustafsson, a police official from the organized crime combat department, to the daily newspaper Aftonbladet, adding: “There seems to be an internal conflict within the Foxtrot itself, and there is also a conflict between the Foxtrot and the Dalen network.”
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