Swedish gang criminals are now sending their members to Iceland to commit crimes, according to Icelandic Justice Minister Gudrún Hafsteinsdóttir. Among other things, they were allegedly involved in an attack on a police car.
Swedish gangs are said to be spreading throughout the Nordic region. The Danish police, for example, have warned that gang members from Sweden are being hired to commit crimes in Denmark. In Norway, police have also said that criminal networks from Sweden pose a threat to the country.
Now the gangs appear to be expanding into Iceland, according to the country’s justice minister.
– Swedes have also sent people to Iceland to commit crime, Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir told Danish TV2.
According to the minister, it is a gang based in Sweden that is involved in the attacks in Iceland. She refers to an attack on a police car that was set on fire in August last year and believes it was carried out on the orders of this gang.
– We have confirmed information about a group of people who have come here for this purpose, Runólfur Thórhallsson of the Icelandic police’s analysis unit told the Icelandic newspaper Morgunbladid.
The gang in question is said to be based in Trollhättan and is one of several gangs that are trying to establish themselves in the island nation, and is already operating on a multinational basis, according to the Icelandic police.
– So it is perhaps unfair to say that this comes from Sweden. This is a multi-national activity that is all around us, says Thórhallsson.
