The man had sold a car for 900,000 kroner in mid-October, according to multiple reports. He eventually contacted a person in Turkey, a Swedish 25-year-old known by the nickname 'The Finnish Fox', and in August 2024, he traveled to Turkey, where he met the charged 25-year-old, two wanted persons now charged in the bomb case, and another person charged in the same case. The man claims that the people he met in Turkey wanted to use his used car business for fraud, and several of them are linked to the criminal motorcycle gang Comanches, according to police.
The 29-year-old perpetrator admitted to throwing the bomb but denies that the intention was to harm anyone, and he also admits to storing a submachine gun. According to the 29-year-old, he took on the assignment because he had accumulated a large drug debt, and it was allegedly found on TikTok, with contact then moving to the encrypted messaging service Signal, where he was promised between 25,000 and 30,000 kroner for it. A little over two weeks before traveling to Norway, he carried out a grenade attack in Stockholm, Sweden, where a grenade was thrown into an apartment in a residential building, injuring no one; DNA from the 29-year-old was found on the remains of the hand grenade, and last year he was sentenced to five years in prison in the Swedish court of appeal. The 29-year-old denies knowing the clients who gave him the assignment.
Five people are charged in connection with the attack: two Norwegians, two Swedes, and a Finnish woman, according to major media. The Swedish 25-year-old is charged with ordering the attack but denies guilt and denies having any connection to a Swedish criminal network linked to the attack by the prosecution.