It was last year in August that shots were fired from close range through a window into a row house in Lassas on the outskirts of Helsinki. Four people, including three Swedish citizens between 20 and 30 years old, are now sentenced by the Helsinki District Court to ten years in prison.
According to HBL, two of the Swedes had traveled to Finland to shoot a person in the residence. The background was a drug debt. The target, however, escaped unharmed. According to the men themselves, one of whom admitted to firing the shots and the other acted as a driver, the purpose was to intimidate.
Both HBL and GP write that the Swedes can be linked to a criminal gang in Gothenburg with ties to the internationally wanted gang leader Ismail "Strawberry" Abdo.
One of the others who are convicted is a 22-year-old Finnish man who receives a ten-year prison sentence. He is identified as one of the organizers behind the attempted murder and Finnish leader of an international criminal organization with connections to Sweden.
