the Murder occurred in the Southern Skolgatan in Malmö, sweden, early in the next morning. The man should have been shot in the head and died soon afterwards of his injuries.
According to the witness, to the Sydsvenskan should the shooter have to be expected when the victim and two other men came out of a port. Then, several shots have been fired in a short hunting down the street before the shots hit the victim and the shooter fled.
– It is an execution, the murdered man was clearly the case, said Jimmy Modin, presstalesperson on polisregion the south to the DN.
described by police as yrkeskriminell with a central role in Malmö’s criminal environments. He has been known to police since at least 2010 and set in 2011, is arrested for murder. The man has subsequently served a sentence for drug-related offences abroad.
“He was over 50 years old, we don’t know exactly how long he had been active in this environment, but it is common to establish itself in the 25 to 30-year-olds,” says Petra Stenkula, the chief of police utredningsenhet in the south region, to DN.
the 51-year-old has previously lived under the threat and have been subjected to attempted murder. The murder is described as an execution and the police are assuming that the shots were intended for the victim.
” It was not entirely unexpected that he was shot, bearing in mind previous assassination attempt and that he had been active and found in these environments in the near future. He must have been aware of the risk, ” says Petra Stenkula.
But now he is also a victim in this, and a father to small children.
the suspects, and no one has yet been arrested for the murder. Thursday continues the police investigation work, with detailed questioning. There should be a large number of witnesses to various parts of the event.
the Firings at central locations in daylight with many witnesses is unusual. The approach suggests, according to Petra Stenkula that the man was difficult to access.
– It is more difficult with ledarfigurer with a wide network of contacts. Then those who want to access them more risk-averse. It is not unlikely that it is a planned murder, which it most likely is. But exactly how it happened is too early to tell, ” she says.
to speculate in the specific motive for Wednesday morning’s murder, but mentions the intensification of the work against the firings on the open street as a reason to nyuppkommen imbalance in the city’s criminal environments.
Since the initiative was launched in June, some 40 people have been detained in their cases remained, and the serious vapenbrott. In addition, a further 30-odd left to the environment through investments in avhopparverksamhet.
The newly created vacuum in the short term can lead to more violence, ” says Petra Stenkula.
the Network is restructured, the criminal makes new friends and enemies, and new power is being sought. In the short term can violence become more prominent, but long-term it may effect, ” she says.
Now karläggs the victim’s last time in life, in parallel with the examination of the witnesses monitors also the movements and trends in the criminal environment after the murder.
“It is clear that it has significance is that it is a trend that was murdered,” she says.
