A seriously injured in the shooting in Gothenburg – Expressen

Gothenburg. Damage Location of the man who yesterday shot down by eleven shots in the Old City of remains serious.

The report Sahlgrenska Hospital on Thursday morning.

– State we estimate unchanged from yesterday: serious but stable, says Robert Sjölund at the Sahlgrenska press office.

At the same time confirming the police now that the deed be linked to gang conflicts in Gothenburg.

The alarm about the shooting in Gamlestan arrived at lunchtime on Wednesday morning. A man of 25 years old was hit when a variety of shots and suffered serious injuries in the face, chest, buttocks, and at several other places on the body.

According to a witness had two men in black clothing stood in ambush, and waited in a small grove of trees when the man just before ten o’clock on Wednesday morning came walking down the General Street, right next to the Bellevue Mosque.

The victim, a man of 25 years old, will then have tried to flee back, up the street toward Bellevue tram stop with the shots whizzing around him.

– The attackers continued to shoot and the victim fled back again into a business. One of the offenders followed and shot until it was out of ammunition in the gun, said the witness who works nearby.

“People stood in the street and hugged each other”

The shooting occurred in an area with several smaller shops, club premises and businesses. And several people testify that they were forced to run into nearby stores for fear of being hit by bullets.

According to Suzanne who live in the area and was on his way to work on the bike soon afterwards took the paramedics into a shop directly adjacent to the site.

– That was where The victim was. I saw people standing outside on the street and hugged each other, says Suzanne.

Went on a moped from the site

An owner of a firm that has rooms overlooking the site says to GT that his employees heard shots outside.

– Then they looked out and saw someone go from there on a moped or motorcycle, the man says.

After the event, the shooter, according to police, have fled on a moped or scooter to the Old Town Square.

According to GT will The victim man being hit by a shot in the face, buttocks, chest and other parts of the body. He was then transferred by ambulance to Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

Police confirm threaded connections

Late Wednesday afternoon, police confirmed that the shooting may be linked to the series of gang-related shootings that rocked Gothenburg recent years.

– This means that the conflict is continuing, says Robert Karlsson, police chief investigator, to P4.

– We are trying with all means at its disposal to prevent this. But it should be clear that there are quite a number of well-motivated offenders who move across a large area, so it is no easy task, says Robert Karlsson, chief investigator, to P4.

The victim man is in 25 years old and known to the police earlier. He is a relative of one of Gothenburg thread profiles.

A quiet area

According to witnesses, the place was chaotic at the place where the shooting took place and there were soon many police officers at the scene. A helicopter circulated also in the air above to help in the hunt for the culprits.

– It’s usually quiet here, says one person who arrived shortly after the shooting had taken place, and having a business in the area.

At eleven o’clock on Wednesday was able to GT’s reporter on the scene report that the technologies were in place to do a survey of the crime scene.

Preliminary investigation of attempted murder

Police have launched a preliminary investigation of attempted murder, alternatively murder. The event is deemed to be a special event which means that the police can use their collective resources in the case.

The event is judged that a special event which means that the police can use their collective resources in the case.

“Hashish war” in Gothenburg

Gothenburg in 2015 suffered a series of brutal acts linked to the conflict between the mainly local suburban gangs raged in the town in recent years. The background to the conflict is both personal vendettas that extends several years back but also, according to police, a fundamental conflict over criminal markets and territories.

The latest victims of the “hashish war” is harvested when two people shot dead 18 March of the so-called “restaurant” killings of Vårväderstorget in the Bishop’s Palace in Hisingen. After killed a man in his 50s on April 15 on the streets of Brämaregården in Gothenburg. The next morning, shot a gang leader of Backa gang to death in Angered in the so-called “bilmordet”.