Swedish Police arrested a teenager after three killed in firing in Uppsala

The Swedish police arrested a teenager after a fatal triple shooting in Uppsala on Tuesday.

Sagittarius has been reported to have fled to a scooter after the attack in hairdresser in the city centertriggering the removal.

Police have confirmed on Wednesday that the person arrested for the shooting is under 18 years of age.

All three victims were between the ages of 15 and 20, Swedish police said at a press conference, although the head of police in the region Eric Eckerund said their identity was not “100%” confirmed.

Police are investigating the possibility of death being linked to the band’s crime, Swedish media reported.

One of the killed in the hair salon is reported to be known to police, local media reported.

The victim was involved in a police investigation into a planned attack on a relative of the band leader Ismail Abdo, according to reports. The person has never been accused.

Abdo, called “JordGubben” or “The Strawberry”, is a well -known band leader.

A new, violent head at the Sweden gang when Abdo’s mother was killed in 2023 at her home in Uppsala, north of Stockholm.

In recent years, Sweden has been watching a wave of crimes from teenage gangs, and suspected have been charged with a number of crimes from vandalism to murder.

The Swedish government has proposed a new legislation that would allow police to eavesdrop for children under the age of 15 in an attempt to cope with the problem.

At a pre -planned press conference on the violence of gangs on Wednesday, Justice Minister Gunnar Stromer suggested that the police would not need specific evidence to conduct the eavesdropping.

Although he acknowledged that proposals include a major privacy disorder, Strömmer suggested that measures were needed to stop the recruitment of children at ten and 11 in bands, Swedish media reported.

The government also said it wanted to tighten the country’s weapons laws.

The attack came on the eve of the Walpurgus Spring Festival, when large crowds are expected to descend the streets of Uppsala, a university town north of Stockholm.

Known in Sweden as Valborg, students gather in the city for champagne snacks, lunch for herring and a river raft race.

There is a huge fire on the outskirts of the city, planned for Wednesday evening.

Åsa Larsson, a local police chief at Uppsala and Knivsta, said the Swedes plan to visit the Uppsala for their annual events at the Walborg Spring Festival, popular with students, should not change their plans.

However, visitors were called to contact the police if they noticed everything they were worried about.

She said that there would be a large police presence in the Uppsala in the coming days, but that there was no “guarantees” that more violent violence could be avoided.

After the shooting, the police were surrounded by a large area near the hair salon.

“Everything happened so fast. It just became a blast, an explosion, an explosion,” said a witness to the Swedish channel TV4.

Another man said he was cooking at home when he heard “Two Brittas, which sounded a little like fireworks” going out on the street.

He told Swedish television that he was “very surprised and frightened” and shortly after “swarms of police and ambulances” began to block from the street and tell people to go back.