Perpetrators on e-scooters kill three people in Uppsala-Diepresse.com
According to the police, three people were killed by shots in Uppsala, Swedish. The perpetrator fled on an e-scooter.
Three people have been killed in shots in the center of the Swedish university town of Uppsala. This was announced by the police of the city north of Stockholm. The background of the incident initially remained unclear in the evening. The killed were not identified at the time. The police initiated murder investigations. The officials blocked the area in a large scale. Several emergency calls were received.
According to Swedish radio, rail traffic was temporarily stopped in the evening. According to the crime, a masked man should have fled on an e-scooter. Nobody was arrested for the time being.
Problems with gang crime
Sweden has been struggling with criminal gangs for years, which are always responsible for fatal shots and intentional explosions. A whole series of different gang conflicts is about power sovereignty in the local drug business, intimidation and blackmailing companies and private individuals.
For the deeds, the gangs often recruit underage teenagers. According to previous police estimates, more than 60,000 people in the Scandinavian eleven million inhabitants are said to have connections to criminal gangs. In Uppsala, two young men in connection with the rampant gang crime had only been convicted last year for murdering the mother of a high -ranking gang member.
