Gang Rapper Sentenced for Ordering Teen to Kill Rival in Sweden

Threats between the two gang-affiliated rappers have been pouring in song after song. Now one of them, a 20-year-old man from Salem south of Stockholm, is being sentenced for having ordered a teenage boy to murder his 19-year-old competitor.

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Gang Rapper Sentenced for Ordering Teen to Kill Rival in Sweden
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Together with an 18-year-old man, the rapper gave a 15-year-old teenager and a 26-year-old man the task of shooting the rival, and possibly also his brother.

Those who instigated the murder are linked to the Dalen network, while the person to be killed is connected to Foxtrot.

The rapper and the 18-year-old man are sentenced in Södertälje district court for conspiracy to murder and involvement of a minor in crime, to four years and nine months in prison and one and a half years in closed youth care, respectively.

Far-reaching murder plans

The teenager is also sentenced for conspiracy to murder, by having undertaken the task. The penalty value for him is estimated to be four years in prison, but he is sentenced to nine months of youth supervision.

The 26-year-old man is acquitted of conspiracy to murder, but receives day fines for minor narcotics offense.

"The murder plans have come relatively far and been part of a crime that is exercised within the framework of network crime, which has affected the length of the sentences," the district court writes in a press release.

In the investigation, a police officer writes that the conflict between the rap groups that the parties belong to is an extension of a larger regional gang conflict.

Ran away from home

Song lyrics, which, among other things, mock others who have been killed in gang conflicts, have been used as evidence in the case.

The songs are released mainly on social media, where the different parties have threatened each other on several occasions.

The teenager has stated in an interview that he ran away from his home in western Sweden to Stockholm due to problems with his mother and stepfather.

Corrected: In an earlier version of the text, an incorrect statement was made about what the teenager said in the interview.

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