Unique trial against man who recruited children to murder assignments
The 14-year-old who attempted shoot a shop employee at Kungsmässan At the beginning of October, got their gun and its scooter via an anonymous contact at Signal. The same alias remotely controlled at the same time another 14-year-old who blasted grenades in Angered and Partille. And when two teenagers at the end of the month participated in the attempted murder of a man at Hisingen, there were also their clients there.
According to the investigators, the signal account belongs to a 23-year-old Gothenburg citizen who in the first two cases called themselves « laxing », but who in the third switched alias to « terror ». On Tuesday, a twelve-day trial begins in which three prosecutors test the man’s role in this wave of violence, and a fourth prosecutor is running another case against the 23-year-old, about serious drug crime. The man denies the charges.
« I’ve never had a similar case, » says Chamber Prosecutor Viktor Törneke, who opens the negotiation on Tuesday morning.
Törneke has investigated The attempted murder at the Kungsmässan where a 14-year-old acknowledged the shooting itself and a 15-year-old was convicted of his denial for assisting. Thus, the person who is believed to have ordered the deed of the teenagers is being prosecuted.
– We can say that he is at least a step up in the hierarchy and has been a central figure in several cases. It is clear that it is a progress for us, says Törneke.
The 23-year-old crime is charged with direct connection to the recruitment of the children, is called involvement of minors in crime, but the man is charged with many more alleged crimes: instigation of grossly general destruction, instigation of attempted murder, instigation of violations of the law on explosive goods, gross drug offenses, serious weapons offenses.
« Should he be convicted of everything that we have gathered claims that he has been guilty of risks having life imprisonment, » said prosecutor Viktor Törneke.
DN has had contact With the 23-year-old’s lawyer who does not want to comment on the case at the moment. However, he emphasizes that his client denies crime in all parts.
