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Bandido-linked man shot dead - 19-year-old sentenced to life imprisonment

A 19-year-old man is sentenced to life for the murder of a 45-year-old man with connections to the Bandidos in Hagsätra.

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A 19-year-old man is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a 45-year-old man in Hagsätra last September.
Four other young people are sentenced for aiding and abetting murder and gross protection of a criminal.

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A 45-year-old man was shot to death in the Stockholm suburb of Hagsätra last September. The victim could be linked to the Bandidos MC gang.

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Early one September evening last year, seven shots echo in the Stockholm suburb of Hagsätra. A tall 45-year-old man who is on his way to the gym at the time slumps to the ground. According to witnesses, the shooting bears the stamp of an execution.

Moments later, a figure in a gray jacket is seen leaving the scene on an electric scooter. But the person has not turned on the power, but kicks forward at a leisurely pace. Several residents in the area film the journey.

A number of members of the public rush forward and perform CPR on the shot man. Soon after, he is flown to hospital by ambulance helicopter, but his life cannot be saved. It will turn out that the murdered 45-year-old can be connected to the MC gang Bandidos.

A few weeks later, the suspected shooter is arrested – that's the person on the electric scooter, a 19-year-old man today. In questioning, the young man states that he was initially promised half a million kroner in compensation for carrying out the shooting. But he ends up getting 150,000. A trivial amount in the context according to him.

- No, all this that I got is nothing. 150,000 for someone like that, it's nothing, he says in police interrogations while claiming that he was threatened by his clients.

Barely a year after the murder, the 19-year-old and six young people are charged with varying degrees of involvement in the incident. Five people are now being sentenced.

For the 19-year-old, who admitted that he committed the murder, the sentence will be life imprisonment.

Three people are convicted of aiding and abetting murder when they recruited the 19-year-old, spied on the 45-year-old before the crime and provided the shooter with a ticket for a trip to the crime scene. For the helpers, the punishment is prison or closed youth care.

A person is convicted of aggravated protection of a criminal for having destroyed evidence by taking care of the electric scooter used by the 19-year-old. The penalty will be youth supervision.