A 41-year-old man is sentenced to 13 years in prison for several aggravated arson attacks and aggravated threats. A 54-year-old man is sentenced to ten years in prison for aggravated arson, aggravated damage and making an aggravated threat against a public official.
Södertörn District Court ruled that the men burned down a townhouse where a social worker lived. They also burned several cars at the homes of officials who were working on the case in the municipality. The purpose was to try to scare them into handing over the three children placed in the LVU.
Four more people are sentenced to between eleven months and two years in prison for aggravated abuse of children after forcibly taking the children away from their foster parents. One of the convicted is the children's mother. At the time, the foster father was beaten by masked men, according to the indictment.
One accused person is completely acquitted.
Sent numerous threats
The suspected instigator - the children's father - has not been prosecuted. He is being held in absentia and is believed to be in Turkey.
From there, he has sent numerous threatening emails to officials in the municipality. The threats have not only been directed at officials and decision-makers in Huddinge, but at Swedish society as a whole.
"This is absolutely not a threat, but a promise! I'm coming for you!" he writes in one of the emails, according to the police investigation.
The investigation also shows that the 33-year-old father has had contact with perpetrators in Sweden who are said to have targeted and threatened people in the municipality.
“My own September 11th”
"We will strike everywhere in Sweden against the Social Services and their offices, not just Stockholm. Sweden will have its own September 11th that will never be forgotten," he writes in a message to a contact in Sweden, according to the preliminary investigation.
The threats have continued even after the perpetrators were arrested and detained this summer.
The man has a previous conviction. In 2024, he was convicted of aggravated trespassing and aggravated unlawful threats after he and a relative forced their way into a man's apartment in southern Stockholm and threatened him with a carbon monoxide gun. According to the district court, the crime was motivated by honor.
He previously ran a company that sold and repaired computers and had twelve employees in 2022. The company went bankrupt in March last year. He has been involved in several civil cases that ended with him being forced to pay millions.
