A store employee was shot and injured on Sunday at a shopping center in Kungsbacka, western Sweden, and a suspect, a teenager aged under 15, was arrested, according to police and local media.
The police refused to specify whether this could be a settling of scores, in a country which is struggling to contain violence between gangs, against a backdrop of drug trafficking. “We can confirm that one of our employees was shot and injured in our Kungsmässan shopping center in Kungsbacka”30 km south of Gothenburg, a company spokesperson told local media.
According to the daily Aftonbladet, the suspect is a boy under 15 years old. “It shows profound recklessness to fire shots on a Sunday afternoon among the employees and visitors of a shopping center”reacted the Minister of Justice, Gunnar Strömmer, to the public channel SVT.
Police received the alert shortly after 3 p.m.
Sweden is struggling to stem the violence of criminal gangs vying for control of drug trafficking through shootings and attacks with homemade explosive devices.
Swedish police have recorded 363 shootings resulting in 53 deaths in 2023, most attributed to gangs, in a country with 10.5 million inhabitants.
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