The Södertälje district court delivered its verdict after a 45-day main hearing, examining extensive evidence including Signal chat conversations from seized phones. The court assessed whether the accused could be linked to chat aliases and if the content and other evidence were sufficient to determine their involvement. For three of the accused, prosecutors did not claim they were direct perpetrators but were involved in planning and execution, sometimes participating digitally.
The crimes, committed within a conflict between criminal networks in the Södertälje and Stockholm area, included an explosion in a store, several shootings, and other serious offenses. Many of the perpetrators, often minors, have been previously convicted. Laurino Nanga, 23, was convicted of multiple crimes including gross public destruction, five attempted murders, gross weapons offenses, and involving minors in crime.
Four other perpetrators were sentenced to closed youth care. The district court was unanimous in its assessment. The conflict involved networks Farsta/Fagersjö and Peppar in southern Stockholm.
In April 2024, two teenage boys with a cocked pistol waited outside Attunda District Court to attempt to murder Nanga, but were stopped by witnesses and guards. On July 22, 2024, a hand grenade was thrown into a convenience store in Södertälje, seriously injuring a woman. Nanga was involved in the grenade attack by directing the perpetrator via headset, according to the prosecutor.
On September 29, 2024, police intervened with a 15-year-old boy on Stureplan who was carrying an automatic weapon; his mission was to murder a gang leader linked to Foxtrot. Nanga was convicted for hiring the boy and planning the murder attempt. Nanga admitted to exchanging information with other perpetrators in the Stureplan incident and accepted responsibility for aiding preparation for murder, but denied other charges.
He denied involvement in the Södertälje grenade attack. Swedish teenagers have also been recruited for gang murders in Denmark. Since April, Danish police have recorded 20 cases of young Swedes attempting to carry out such crimes in Copenhagen and surrounding areas.
A Swedish teenager was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for attempted murder and attempted possession of a weapon after traveling to Denmark to carry out an assassination. The teenager arrived in Copenhagen on April 25th after traveling more than twelve hours by train from northern Sweden. The court based its conclusion on Telegram and Snapchat communications between the teenager and the person who gave him the task, including instructions to pick up a weapon at Nørrebro Station.
The teenager confirmed multiple times that he would carry out the shooting but was caught by police before he could do it. The teenager claimed in court that he had changed his mind and decided against carrying out the killing when arrested. His defense lawyer argued he should be cleared of all charges because he voluntarily pulled out.
The boy and his lawyer will appeal the sentence. An adult in Denmark would be sentenced to six years for the same crime, but the teenager received five and a half years due to his age. A 21-year-old man from Växjö was arrested by Swedish police on August 9 and later detained pending extradition to Denmark.
He was detained by Copenhagen City Court for four weeks. The 21-year-old denies the charges. Police suspect the 21-year-old had a coordinating role in several gang-related crimes during the summer and acted as an intermediary for the Danish-Swedish gang alliance led by Ismail Abdo, according to SVT.
He is also suspected of illegal weapons possession for crimes between April and July. The 21-year-old is suspected of involvement in several failed attack attempts against the Comanches motorcycle club in April, where young boys were arrested with firearms on their way to the clubhouse, according to SVT. The Swedish prosecutor requested the man's phone be handed over to Danish police, which was approved by Växjö District Court, but the man appealed that decision.
The burden of uncertainty for the security guard must have been great.
About fifteen Swedes are currently detained in Denmark suspected of involvement in crimes linked to an ongoing gang conflict. An 18-year-old Swedish man was sentenced to six years and six months in prison by the Court of Frederiksberg after confessing to attempted murder and attempted possession of a weapon. The 18-year-old admitted that between April 25 and May 1, 2025, he and accomplices attempted to kill an unknown person and used encrypted communication to recruit someone to commit murder in Denmark for one million kroner.
The 18-year-old was arrested by Swedish police in May 2025 at the request of NSK and extradited to Denmark. The case is part of Europol's Task Force 'OTF Grimm' involving 11 countries. Police describe the case as an example of 'Violence as a Service'.
The 18-year-old was permanently expelled from Denmark and is considering whether to appeal. A 17-year-old Swedish boy traveled to Blågårds Square in Copenhagen on July 31 last summer to shoot a man with a Loyal to Familia tattoo but fired a shot without hitting anyone and was arrested within ten minutes. The murder assignment was found via Telegram, promising almost 800,000 Swedish kronor and saying he would be part of creating history.
Police found a message on the boy's phone saying he was thrilled and had butterflies in his stomach about the assignment. A 31-year-old Danish woman was convicted of weapons possession for accommodating the Swedish teenager but not attempted murder. A 29-year-old Danish man was convicted of participating in an attempted murder where two Swedish girls, aged 15 and 14, were to kill a man in Herning in June 2024.
The 29-year-old admitted involvement and said, according to Ritzau, that he knew two young Swedes were coming but didn't know they were girls. The girls stayed at the 29-year-old's home and were helped remotely when they had a problem with a cartridge, but the target was not home and the attempt failed. The 29-year-old was sentenced to six years in prison by the district court in Herning.
A 20-year-old Swedish man was sentenced to ten years in prison for attempted murder in Copenhagen. The intended victim was linked to the banned gang Loyal To Familia, but the crime was never carried out. Two Danish gang criminals were sentenced to long prison terms in July last year for ordering the murder, and the Swedish man received a pistol from them to carry out the murder on Nørrebro in September 2024.
In Norway, a 33-year-old man was sentenced to nine months in prison for a series of violent incidents. He attacked a security guard at Farmandstorget in Tønsberg on October 27 last year. The security guard was called to a pharmacy where the accused refused to pay for an item he had opened.
The confrontation moved outside, where the 33-year-old stabbed the security guard twice in the stomach area with a syringe needle. In court, the man denied using the syringe, but surveillance images and witness statements contradicted this. A syringe needle was found at the scene and a syringe cap was found on the 33-year-old.
The security guard had to undergo multiple rounds of testing to rule out infection from serious diseases like hepatitis. The 33-year-old was ordered to pay 30,000 kroner in compensation to the security guard. On New Year's Eve this year, the 33-year-old took the night bus on Nøtterøy and threatened a group of youths with a knife, saying he would kill them.
One of the youths was hit with a sharp object but was not seriously injured. When police went to arrest him at his home later that night, he brandished a knife at four officers, kicked a female officer, and spat on another. According to NRK Vestfold og Telemark, the accused described that the police officers did not 'deserve to live'.
The accused is well known to police and has been convicted multiple times for similar offenses. The new offenses were committed during the probation period for a two-month suspended sentence. The two months are included in the nine-month prison sentence.
The police officers did not 'deserve to live'.
The 33-year-old must also pay 7,500 kroner in compensation to Ringerike prison for destroying a TV, a toilet, and a sink in two separate incidents while incarcerated. Two prison guards at Norrtälje high-security prison, a man and a woman aged 25-30, were sentenced to 1 year 9 months and 1 year 3 months for gross bribery and gross misconduct. They smuggled three mobile phones into the prison and gave them to inmates linked to organized crime.
The smuggling was orchestrated by a group of six, including Eddie Jobe, leader of a criminal network from Södra Biskopsgården in Göteborg. Eddie Jobe was sentenced to 9 months for instigating gross misconduct and gross bribery; he is also detained as a suspect in a 2012 murder. Police intercepted a package with three Nokia phones addressed to the female guard, allowed it through, and tracked the phones to inmates.
The female guard received at least 32,000 SEK and her colleague 8,000 SEK for the smuggling. A Romanian man, Thomasz Szabo, 27, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for organizing swatting calls and bomb threats against dozens of US government targets. Prosecutors recommended nearly 5 years; Szabo pleaded guilty to conspiracy and threats charges.
Szabo began creating chat servers for trolling in 2018 and expanded to swatting by late 2020. Szabo was charged with Nemanja Radovanovic of Serbia, whose case is unresolved. Associate Alan Filion, 18, was sentenced in Florida to 4 years for making approximately 375 swatting calls between August 2022 and January 2024.
In December 2023, Szabo told Radovanovic to target both Republican and Democratic parties because 'we are not on any side'. On January 19, 2024, Secret Service agents questioned Szabo after Romanian authorities searched his home; he was extradited to the US in November 2024. 0, was deported from Turkey to Sweden to serve a multi-year prison sentence.
Gustafsson was sentenced in 2022 to 11 years and 8 months for exceptionally serious drug offenses. He fled before the verdict, was internationally wanted, and was arrested in Turkey in July 2024. 6 million SEK, about half of the 319 million SEK crime profit.
A man was convicted in Stockholm of two counts of gross war crimes for events in Yarmuk, Syria, in 2012-2013. The first count involved an attack on a peaceful demonstration on July 13, 2012, by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad, killing about ten civilians. The second count involved manning a checkpoint in Yarmuk from December 2012 to July 2013 as a masked informant, leading to arrests, deaths, and torture.
The court was unanimous and ordered the man to pay damages to relatives and victims. Other notable convictions include a 25-year-old man sentenced to nine months in prison for boat theft and serious drug crime. On the night of May 17, 2024, on Tjøme, he stole a boat because he missed the night bus, but could not start it and it ran aground, triggering a distress signal and leading to his arrest.
Before the case came to court, he was also caught with 112 grams of amphetamine in his pocket at the bus station in Tønsberg. He claimed in court that he was holding it for an acquaintance who sold drugs. The defense requested community service because he is in rehabilitation, but the court refused, noting he has not managed to quit illegal drugs completely or break with his previous environment.
He received a sentence reduction for his confession and because the police delayed the investigation. A man in his 30s from Sør-Varanger was convicted of multiple violations of the weapons law, including making a bomb lethal within a 5-meter radius and attempting 42 times to buy registration-required weapons without permission. The verdict also includes a case of threats against another man.
The court believes the man is getting his life on track and that prison would put him back in contact with drug circles, so he was sentenced to 120 hours of community service. He has previous convictions for drug offenses, drunk driving, threats, and illegal fishing. A man in his 50s from Kristiansund was sentenced to five years and four months in prison for serious drug offenses.
The accused's behavior is very troublesome for the public and the police, and he appears very quarrelsome and argumentative.
He stored almost 100,000 narcotic tablets, doping substances, and purchased various narcotic substances. He has 12 previous convictions, also for drug offenses. The sentence includes an additional sentence from a November verdict, and over 200 days are deducted for time in custody.
A man in his 40s from Øvre Eiker was sentenced to four months and 16 days in prison for gross vandalism and insurance fraud after a car fire in Oslo in September 2023. Asgeir Knudsen experienced a decade-long nightmare of stalking after a chance meeting at a work conference. According to NRK, Knudsen described reporting the woman stalking him to the police over a thousand times.
The number of people reporting stalking in Norway has doubled in 12 years. One in four women in Norway say they have experienced stalking. Most surveys show that men are the majority of stalkers.
In 2023, 8 women were reported to police for stalking in Norway, and nearly a thousand received restraining orders. Knudsen's stalker created a personal server to store all information she found about him. A 50-year-old man in Finland sat naked on his sofa watching TV when a property manager entered his flooded apartment.
The flooding caused water damage to the apartment and three other units, with repair costs of about €60,000, of which insurance covered just under €40,000. The man was charged with aggravated criminal damage but denied intent or negligence, blaming the housing company for a known drainage problem. In Gothenburg, a man was forced into a car under threat, assaulted, and robbed of his phone and bank card by three men aged 30, 24, and 21.
Police found four fake gold bars, a fake gold cross, glasses, and four fake Hong Kong currency notes at the scene. The victim suffered fractures in the face, swelling, and bruises. All three perpetrators were convicted of robbery; one received 3 years in prison, two received 3 years and 6 months.
The defendants denied the crime, with one claiming the victim was drug-affected and had false memories. Henri Nikolli, 19, attempted to import a handgun disguised as a 'canine training kit' to his parents' home in the UK. Authorities intercepted the package, finding a 9mm blank-firing handgun, magazine, cleaning brush, and muzzle adapter.
Nikolli was arrested on April 10 outside a family property in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. A search uncovered three modified antique firearms, tools for manufacturing weapons, live and spent ammunition, a cannabis grow, and dealing equipment. Nikolli pleaded guilty to multiple offences and was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison.
Two men, aged 37 and 20, were sentenced to 4 and 5 years in prison respectively for crimes including gross weapons offenses, robbery, and assault. A video shows the men firing a sawn-off shotgun in the woods while shouting 'Team 33', the name of a supporter group for the Danish criminal motorcycle gang Comanches MC. Police seized a T-shirt marked Team 33 from one man's car; the 37-year-old has previous links to Red and White Crew, a Hells Angels supporter group, but both deny current MC ties.
The 20-year-old was also convicted for an assault in a hooligan environment linked to IFK Göteborg, where participants split into two teams and fought in the woods. A group chat message before the fight said 'Up and jump boys! ' The 20-year-old has a GYF tattoo, which stands for Gothenburg Youth Firm, a subgroup of Wisemen associated with IFK Göteborg, but he claims it stands for ex-girlfriends' names.
The 20-year-old claimed the fight was consensual like an MMA match with a referee and rules, but the court ruled the violence was not permissible. The 20-year-old was also convicted of aggravated robbery for robbing a gas station with a sawn-off shotgun, stealing candy, snus, and energy drinks. Camilla Reidunsdatter Andreassen is stepping down as rector of Greveskogen videregående skole in Tønsberg.
She took over the position in 2024, 29 years after she herself was a graduating student at the same school. The main reason is collaboration problems with the leadership group.