Johan Croneman: – DN.se
« Assignment Review » and journalist Diamant Salihu go into depth and talk about the origin of the conflict between the two former gang poles in the Foxtrot network: « The Kurdish fox » and « The Strawberry », Rawa Majid and Ismail Abdo.
The series is called « Once Brothers », aired Wednesdays, four episodes.
Are you also, by the way, struck by how the semantics and language use have settled in the general speech? We quickly learned the new gangsterlingot: « The criminal network » for example. Doesn’t it sound like it was a bunch of inventive entrepreneurs in an expansive industry?
Somewhere it lies A allure throughout that presentation. We should perhaps consider what language we use in our descriptions of ruthless killers, in total lack of normal humanity.
If they can’t hold you, they shoot your mom. Or a child who happens to stand in the way
They push huge amounts of drugs to unhappy addicts who get their lives destroyed-the maple murder their best friends for thirty silver money, they hire 13-14-year-olds as torpedoes when they themselves have been shredded long ago, they hide and crouch in the Middle East and liking themselves with terrorists.
Sick of malfunctioning zeros. It is almost a crime to describe them in some other way.
Not infrequently go They home to the wrong guy and murder a completely innocent. If they can’t hold you, they shoot your mom. Or a child who happens to stand in the way.
Diamond Salihu does a genuine job, he, like no one else, has sat into these gang structures, spent years of his journalistic work on this crime, the people behind, their way of thinking – and their complete inability to think at all.
He is brave, factual, calm, patient. He is admirable. Of course.
I’m not falling anyway Completely in the porch before his and « Assignment Review » new effort to give us a broader picture of the conflict and the escalating violence. Of course, I think everyone should look, but not without thinking too. Themselves.
Actually, the best pieces of the series are the most ‘unsexy’
Actually, the best pieces of the series are the most « unsex ». When Diamond Salihu flies in to the lion ball in Baghdad, when he knocks on the worst motorcycle gang in Copenhagen, when he gets in touch with « Benzema », « The Strawberry » and « The Fox » it gets « exciting » and a little more (yes, actually) entertaining.
Dangerous secret meetings. Talks with the murderers themselves. A little tickling, even.
The more unseen The elements are still the most important. Like the disillusioned and betrayed police investigators, or the conversations with Kajsa, ruthless drugs whose teenage son is drawn into the same shit life she herself has chosen to live and go to Copenhagen to kill for money. Or how the understaffed police investigation recurring warns of what is at risk – and how they are totally neglected by their police management.
It does not matter that these experienced police officers report how Foxtrot smuggles tremendously with drugs (« we did not understand how they could do away with such quantities even in ten years ») and how their violence capital only grows in line with their drug monopoly. No one listens.
There we have the really big police and political scandal – only it would have been worth four episodes
There we have it real Large police and political scandal – only it would have been worth four episodes. We spend a lot of tax money on the police, why don’t they get the most experience and the greatest knowledge, including the really big resources?
It obviously doesn’t work that way, and it is indeed a mighty journalistic hole to dig in.
And something that unfortunately may also pass a little unnoticed in the general debate (and in Salihus documentary): HVB and SIS homes that obviously continue to be the criminal organizations’ own colleges. You get dark. Seriously.
Read more Chronicles by Johan Cronemanfor example: He is one of the big ones of our time – unfortunately more Danish than Swedish.
