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Murdered 13-year-old found in forest near Stockholm

A thirteen-year-old boy has been found dead in a forested area in Haninge, south of Stockholm, police have confirmed. Police are treating his death as a murder.

Published: 12 September 2023 16:53 CEST
Murdered 13-year-old found in forest near Stockholm
File photo of a police car. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

The boy, who was reported missing on Friday, was shot in the head, SVT reports.

“What I can say is that we are dealing with an extremely serious suspected crime, more specifically the murder of a very young person,” prosecutor and leader of the preliminary investigation, Lisa dos Santos, said in a statement. 

“The fact that the the victim was so young is in itself terrible, and shows yet another dimension of the merciless, serious wave of violence. Now we are working to find out what has happened to this boy.”

According to TV4, police believe that the boy’s body was moved to the forest after he was murdered.

Police are now asking for anyone with relevant information to come forward. This includes anyone who may have seen something suspicious in the area around Haninge centre or in the forested area close to Kolatorpsvägen.

Member comments

  1. Police need to be aware that without witness protection, they will have no witnesses. No one will come forward for fear of revenge.
    Witness protection should be a must in Sweden to solve crimes!

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Illegal Swedish strawberry sales raise billions of kronor for organised crime

Swedish police have carried out raids on strawberry vendors suspected of being linked to gang crime.

Published: 17 June 2024 10:07 CEST
Illegal Swedish strawberry sales raise billions of kronor for organised crime

Police told Dagens Nyheter that the raids were connected to one of Sweden’s most wanted gang leaders, Ismail Abdo, nicknamed Jordgubben (“The Strawberry”).

In a statement police said they had “hit a central violent actor by targeting individuals around this person and their business structures”.

Raids were carried out in Bergslagen, as well as the Mitt and Stockholm police regions.

It’s suspected that these sellers had been marketing Belgian strawberries as Swedish and using the revenue to fund serious organised crime. Police also found children under the legal working age and migrants without legal residency permits working at the stalls.

Police believe that illegal strawberry sales turn over billions of kronor every year.

“We’ve carried out multiple actions together with other authorities,” Per Lundbäck, from the Bergslagen policing region, told Swedish news agency TT. “By cutting off the finances off this type of organised crime, we can weaken gangs’ financing and their ability to carry out crimes.”

To avoid buying strawberries linked to crime, Lundbäck recommends paying attention to the company you buy your strawberries from.

“The first thing you can do is look at the number the (mobile phone payment app) Swish payment goes to, to make sure it’s a company number starting with 123, and not a private number,” he said.

Most companies will have their Swish number displayed somewhere on the stand, so you should be able to check this even if you don’t have the app and are paying with card, for example.

He also added that you can pay attention to the age of the person selling the strawberries, describing very young sellers as a “red flag”.

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