Swedish police arrest teenager after three killed in Uppsala Schiet party

The Swedish police arrested a teenager after a deadly triple shooting in the city of Uppsala on Tuesday.

The shooter reportedly fled on a scooter after the attack A hair salon in the middle of the cityActivating a manhunt.

The police confirmed on Wednesday that the arrested person for the shooting is younger than 18 years.

All three were between 15 and 20 years old, the Swedish police told a press conference, although the police chief Erik Åkerlund said that their identity was not “100%” confirmed.

The police are investigating the possibility that the deaths are related to gang crime, Swedish media reported.

One of those killed in the hair salon is reportedly known to the police, the local media said.

The victim was involved in a police investigation about a planned attack on a family member of Bendelider Ismail ABDO, according to the reports. The person has never been charged.

Abdo, nicknamed ‘Jordgubben’ or ‘The Strawberry’, is a well -known gang leader.

A new, violent chapter in the Gang Wars van Sweden started then Abdo’s mother was murdered in 2023 in her house in Uppsala, north of Stockholm.

Sweden has seen a wave of crime of teenage gang in recent years, with suspects accused of a series of violations of vandalism to murder.

The Swedish government has proposed new legislation with which the police can drain children under the age of 15 in an attempt to struggle with the problem.

In a pre -planned press conference on Bendegeweld on Wednesday, the Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer suggested that the police would not need concrete evidence to perform the branches.

Although he has acknowledged that the proposals have a large violation of privacy, Strömmer has suggested that the measures are needed to stop the recruitment of children as young as ten and 11 to gangs, Swedish media reported.

The government has also said that it wants to sharpen the laws of the country.

The attack came on the eve of the Walpurgis Spring Festival, when it is expected that large crowds will descend into the streets of Uppsala, a university city north of Stockholm.

Known in Sweden as Valborg, university students gather in the city for Champagne -breakfast, lunches from Haring and a raft race on the river.

A huge bonfire on the outskirts of the city is planned for Wednesday evening.

Åsa Larsson, a local police chief in Uppsala and Knivsta, said that Sweden are planning to visit Uppsala for his annual Valborg Spring Festival events, popular with students, should not change their plans.

However, visitors were encouraged to contact the police if they saw something they were worried about.

She said that there would be a big presence on the police in Uppsala in the coming days, but that there were “no guarantees” that could be avoided further violence.

After the shooting, police officers took a large area near the hair salon.

“Everything happened so quickly. It just went bang, bang, bang,” a witness told the Swedish channel TV4.

Another man said he was cooking at home when he heard “two ponies that sounded a bit like fireworks”.

He told Swedish television that he was “very surprised and scared” and shortly after “swarms of police and ambulances” started blocking the street of the street and told people to go back.