Police are assuming a “targeted attack” on a Swedish shopping mall in Malmo. The suspect has already been arrested.
The suspect in the fatal shooting at a shopping mall in the southern Swedish city of Malmo on Friday is just 15 years old. Police announced this at a news conference on Saturday. A 31-year-old man died in the action. Everything points to a targeted attack, quoted the police chief of Swedish broadcaster SVT Malmö, Petra Stenkula.
A woman was also injured in the act, a passerby who was accidentally hit. Her injuries are serious, but her life is not in danger, the report says.
The alleged perpetrator of the crime was arrested on Friday. According to SVT, the police assume that the young man acted alone. However, it is considered that other people may be involved in the crime. The police had already announced on Friday that the crime was part of the “criminal milieu”.
Police speak of spiral of violence
She understands that people are uneasy about the incident, said police chief Stenkula. Malmo is in a “spiral of violence”. A long-term strategy must be implemented to prevent young people from being recruited by criminals.
Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson was shocked and described the incident as “terrible”. Shootings and crimes are a threat to the security and freedom of movement that all law-abiding citizens are entitled to, the Social Democrat said, according to broadcaster SVT. Sweden’s Center Party leader Annie Lööf complained on Twitter about “complete indifference to human life” on the part of criminals.
(APA)