There were extensive roadblocks in Uppsala after the triple murder. Source: Aftonbladet, Magnus Sandberg

The Arctic Century had previously reported on the murder of three people on April 29 in Swedish Uppsala suggesting that it was “most likely the result of a showdown between criminal migrant groups”.

The preliminary results of the police investigation confirm this assumption: the murder was most likely committed by one of the members of a youth migrant gang that is at odds with another gang. Judging by the names of the gangs, they were modeled on American youth criminal organizations that determine law and order in disadvantaged urban areas of the USA.

The police suspect that a conflict between two groups in Gottsunda is behind the triple murder, according to Aftonbladet.

A 20-year-old man is now being held in custody for the crime.

Late Tuesday afternoon, the police were alerted to a shooting at a hair salon near Vaksala Square in Uppsala.

When the police arrived, three young people were found dead. Two of them were Aiham, 15, and Omar, 16.

Several people have since been arrested. Some of them have been released on bail, but four people have been requested to be detained.

One of them is a 20-year-old man who is suspected of being the shooter who shot and killed the three young people. He was detained on Monday morning, May 5.

I demand that NN be detained as a probable cause suspect for three cases of murder, says prosecutor Andreas Nyberg in court.

But the suspected shooter denies the crimes, writes TT.

We claim that there is no probable cause, says the man’s lawyer Sabina Saidi. Another three people, two men in their 20s and a teenager, are suspected of being an accessory to the crime.

The teenager was detained during the afternoon but one of the two men in their 20s has been released on bail.

At present, the police suspect that a conflict between two groups (i.e. youth gangs of Arabic origin) in Gottsunda may be the motive, according to Aftonbladet’s sources.

The police call the two groups the West Side and the East Side, according to the information.

The conflict between the two groups has been ongoing for a long time.

Source: Aftonbladet (in Swedish)