STOCKHOLM: A Swedish prosecutor stated on Sunday (Could 4) he had requested {that a} man suspected of a triple capturing be remanded in custody.
Three others arrested within the probe on suspicion of incitement to homicide have been launched however are nonetheless the topic of investigation, prosecutor Andreas Nyberg stated.
The person to be held in pre-trial detention was in his 20s and had been in police custody since Thursday, the prosecutor stated.
No date has but been launched for his court docket listening to.
Three males aged 15 to twenty have been killed late on Tuesday in broad daylight at a hair salon in central Uppsala, a college city north of the capital, Stockholm.
The capturing has fuelled fears amongst some individuals in Sweden of a rising tide of gang violence, though police haven’t confirmed that the capturing was gang-related.
In line with the Swedish press, at the least one of many victims had ties to organised crime. Police haven’t confirmed that declare.
Sweden has been in search of lately to stem a wave of violence between rival gangs vying for management of the drug commerce.
Uppsala has lengthy been the bottom of Sweden’s two most infamous rival gang leaders, Ismail Abdo and Rawa Majid, though each are suspected of orchestrating their operations from overseas.
