"It was a question of an execution for payment by a person completely unknown to the perpetrator. The murder took place in a network environment. If the perpetrator had been an adult, the penalty would have been life imprisonment," says the court's chairman, Jonas Brunberg, in a comment.
The shooting occurred at 2 p.m. on March 21 on Klockarvägen in Södertälje. The victim, who was in his 20s, had been lured by an unknown person to the tunnel where he was shot dead with four shots by the shooter, who had also been instructed to go to the scene.
A boy who was 16 at the time of the incident, who is now 17, has confessed to the murder and is sentenced to three years and five months in closed juvenile detention. At the same time, another 17-year-old boy is sentenced to two years and eleven months in closed juvenile detention for aiding and abetting.
"His role has been to find perpetrators and mediate assassination missions regarding conflicts that he otherwise does not seem to have any close involvement in," says Jonas Brunberg about the aide.
A third person, a 23-year-old man, is acquitted of aiding and abetting by the district court.
The instigator behind the murder is unknown. The motive is believed to be a conflict that arose between the victim and the person the day before, regarding a delivery of bombs. "The man had been lured there under the pretense that he would receive compensation for a failed purchase of thermos bombs," the district court writes in a press release.
