Crime. Suddenly opened the perpetrators fire with automatic weapons inside the restaurant. Today brought charges against eight men suspected to be behind.
A long-standing gang conflict is believed to be the reason for the attack, in which two people died and eight injured.
the deed at Vårväderstorget, in a suburb of Gothenburg, occurred on March 18 last year, when a large number of people gathered at the restaurant to watch the Champions League football. According to the indictment were two culprits around among the guests inside the restaurant and shot with automatic weapons from different positions.
To describe Niklas high density, prosecutor, process:
– What happens is that a passenger arrives at the restaurant’s rear, with three masked and armed men. Two of the perpetrators rushing in and opens fire, a third standing guard outside the tavern.
– One of them runs into a yellow reflective vest marked “police”. A person shot dead, on the way out shot one to death and the perpetrators escaping through a time tunnel and out to the getaway car.
“No winners “
police suspect that a long-standing battle between gangs from two different areas of the district Bishop’s Palace is behind a series of violent incidents in recent years.
Not least tavern shots have left deep scars in the district, says police, who, however, at the same time thank the accommodations for tips and testimony during the investigation.
– There is obviously a large amount of families who feel great sadness and regret, I think we can give them a thought such this day. In this investigation are only losers and no winners, says Robert Karlsson, head of the police investigation unit.
– This had not gone, but the most important player, the persons who are residents and live in these neighborhoods. We have been helped in a way that we have not experienced before.
Reduced crime
the gang-related serious crimes have become fewer in Gothenburg while the investigation going on, partly because of earlier trials and judgments. Many of the people who were most motivated to commit crimes have been detained, according to Robert Karlsson.
Three of the defendants were arrested the day after the tavern murders in a car, reportedly with several automatic weapons. A month later shot a man in the 55-year-old to death in another neighborhood. According to the indictment was murdered the father of a young man in one of the rival gangs. The father wanted to try to mediate in the conflict. It was the prelude to the meeting which ended with the father was shot dead in the street.
The investigation has grown gradually and eight men, aged 19-28 years, prosecuted now suspected to have been involved.
Five men accused of murder and attempted murder of the restaurant. One of the men, a 20 year old, is in addition to the restaurant killings suspect even for the latter’s murder. Three men accused of complicity in the crimes.
Two of the five murder defendants executed, according to prosecutors, the shooting. A third kept watch outside the restaurant, while the other two were responsible for their getaway car.
In addition to those killed and injured were another 16 people in the room. According to prosecutors, it was only coincidental that made that they were not met. Five of those who were not hit by the shots are still considered to have been exposed to danger.
deny the charges
Rough gun crime and drug trafficking are among the other charges were presented at a press conference today .
According to prosecutor Niklas high density denies all the defendants to the crimes they are accused of.
the study has been conducted by a special team within police. The material is extensive.
– It has been an immense amount of data regarding telephony and the like, said prosecutor Ulrika Åberg.
in August, several months after the Scot at the restaurant, police found a mobile phone technologies which according to Åberg has been decisive in the investigation. Police have also kept some 500 interviews with witnesses.
FACTS
Pub Murder in Gothenburg
Two people died and eight were injured when several perpetrators opened fire with automatic weapons at a restaurant in the Bishop’s Palace on the evening of 18 March 2015.
Police Regional Klas Friberg described the attack as “completely without feelings for fellow human beings.”
the evening after the arrest of three men in a car in Majorna district. In the car were weapons that could later be linked to the tavern murders.
The three men are among the eight detainees who are accused of involvement in the shooting.
Five of the eight are suspected of murder.
Barely a month after the shots at the restaurant shot a man in the 55-year-old to death on a street in another neighborhood .
A 20-year-old man is suspected of murder in both events.
the trial begins May 16 and is expected to last until 22 July.
Sources: Gothenburg District Court and others.
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