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Local Sweden
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Local Sweden
Sweden charges four over killing of hip hop star C.Gambino
Four people face trial over the 2024 killing of a rapper who had been named Sweden's hip hop artist of the year the month before his death. Advertisement Masked 26-year-old rapper – whose real name was Karar Ramadan, and not to be confused with American rapper Childish Gambino – was the victim of a shooting in June 2024. The Swedish Prosecution Authority said two men were being charged with "murder or aiding and abetting murder, as well as aggravated weapons offences" over the shooting in a parking garage in the city of Gothenburg. A third man was charged with "aggravated protecting a criminal", while a fourth was charged with the same crime plus "aiding and abetting murder". "The act is both ruthless and premeditated. It was also committed as part of a conflict between two networks that has been ongoing for several years," prosecutor Shahrzad Rahimi said in a statement, adding that there was "no direct evidence that the victim personally belonged to the network". was named hip hop artist of the year at the 2024 Swedish recording industry's Grammis Awards. Advertisement Another award-winning Swedish rapper, Einar, was shot and killed in Stockholm in a gang conflict in October 2021. The Scandinavian country has struggled to contain surging gang violence in recent years, with shootings and bombings now weekly occurrences across the country.
The Sun
2 days ago
- The Sun
Sweden charges four over hip hop star killing
STOCKHOLM: Swedish prosecutors on Tuesday charged four people over the 2024 killing of a rapper who had been named the country's hip hop artist of the year the month before his death. Masked 26-year-old rapper -- whose real name was Karar Ramadan, and not to be confused with American rapper Childish Gambino -- was the victim of a shooting in June 2024. The Swedish Prosecution Authority said two men were being charged with 'murder or aiding and abetting murder, as well as aggravated weapons offences' over the shooting in a parking garage in the city of Gothenburg. A third man was charged with 'aggravated protecting a criminal', while a fourth was charged with the same crime plus 'aiding and abetting murder'. 'The act is both ruthless and premeditated. It was also committed as part of a conflict between two networks that has been ongoing for several years,' prosecutor Shahrzad Rahimi said in a statement, adding that there was 'no direct evidence that the victim personally belonged to the network'. was named hip hop artist of the year at the 2024 Swedish recording industry's Grammis Awards. Another award-winning Swedish rapper, Einar, was shot and killed in Stockholm in a gang conflict in October 2021. The Scandinavian country has struggled to contain surging gang violence in recent years, with shootings and bombings now weekly occurrences across the country.
The Journal
28-05-2025
- The Journal
Swedish man charged for 'brutal execution' of pilot burned alive by ISIS
PROSECUTORS HAVE CHARGED a Swedish man over the 2014 capture and subsequent killing of a Jordanian pilot, who was burned to death in a cage in Syria by the Islamic State (ISIS). The 26-year-old Jordanian, 1st Lt. Mu'ath al-Kaseasbeh, was taken captive after his F-16 fighter jet crashed near the extremists' de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria. He was forced into a cage that was set on fire, killing him. Osama Krayem, 32, was charged with 'participating in the brutal execution' of the pilot, prosecutor Reena Devgun told a press conference. Krayem, who is already serving a 30-year sentence for involvement in the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, was charged with 'serious war crimes and terrorist crimes'. The execution of the Jordanian pilot was filmed, and a 22-minute video accompanied by a specially composed religious chant was published. In the video, the victim is seen walking past several masked ISIS fighters, including Krayem, according to prosecutors. The pilot is then locked in a cage that is set on fire, leading to his death, according to Henrik Olin, the other prosecutor in charge of the case. 'This bestial murder, in which a prisoner was burned alive in a cage, was staged in a carefully produced video that was broadcast around the world,' Olin said. 'Its publication marked an unprecedented escalation in the Islamic State group's violent propaganda.' Advertisement Prosecutors have been unable to determine the exact day of the murder, but the investigation has identified the location where it took place. 'Obligation' to prosecute The defendant's lawyer, Petra Eklund, told reporters that her client admitted to being present at the scene, but disputed the prosecution's version. 'He denies the acts for which he is prosecuted,' she said. A court sketch drawing of Osama Krayem. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo 'He acknowledges having been present at that place during the event but claims not to have acted in the manner described by the prosecutors in the account of the facts.' Krayem, who is from Malmo in southern Sweden, joined ISIS in Syria in 2014 before returning to Europe. In June 2022, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison in France for helping plan the November 2015 Paris attacks, in which 130 people were killed. The following year, he was given a life sentence in Belgium for participating in the bombings on 22 March, 2016, at Brussels' main airport and on the metro system, which killed 32 people. 'Even though this is a person that's already sentenced and is serving very long prison sentences in other countries, we will still charge him and we have an international obligation to do so,' Devgun said. Krayem has been 'temporarily handed over to Sweden to participate in the trial', which is scheduled to begin 4 June, according to the Swedish Prosecution Authority. 'It is painful for my parents to be confronted with this event again, but we are grateful that the Swedish authorities want to give us justice,' Jawdat al-Kasasbeh, the pilot's brother, told broadcaster Sveriges Radio.
Euronews
28-05-2025
- Politics
- Euronews
Sweden charges man over 2015 killing of Jordanian pilot burned alive
Swedish prosecutors have charged a convicted terrorist over the 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot who was burned alive in Syria by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group. Osama Krayem — a 32-year-old Swedish citizen — was charged on Tuesday with aggravated war crimes and terrorism relating to the killing of Jordanian air force pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh. "Krayem, together with and in agreement with other perpetrators belonging to IS, killed/deprived Muath al-Kasasbeh of his life," the Swedish Prosecution Authority said in his indictment. Krayem was previously convicted of involvement in fatal attacks by the IS group in Paris in 2015 and in Brussels in 2016, and is currently serving a 30-year jail sentence in France. He has been temporarily transferred to Sweden to participate in the Swedish investigation and is expected to go on trial in Stockholm on 4 June. The suspect's lawyer could not be immediately reached for comment. Krayem has previously denied the charges, according to Swedish public broadcaster SVT. The IS group took al-Kasasbeh captive in December 2014 after his F-16 fighter jet crashed near the group's then de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria. In early 2015, the group released a video of al-Kasasbeh being burned alive in a cage. His death was confirmed by Jordan. The Swedish prosecutors' indictment said that Krayem had forced the pilot into the cage. "The cage was subsequently set on fire by one of the co-perpetrators, and the pilot died as a consequence of the fire," the prosecutors said. Krayem grew up in the Swedish city of Malmö and is believed to have travelled to Syria in September 2014 to fight for the IS group. He had posted photos on social media from Syria, including one where he posed with an assault rifle in front of the group's black flag. In 2022, Krayem was among 20 men convicted by a special terrorism court in Paris over a wave of IS attacks in the French capital in 2015, targeting several locations, including the Bataclan theatre. The assaults killed 130 people and injured hundreds. Krayem was jailed for 30 years for charges including complicity to terrorist murder. In 2023, a Belgian court sentenced Krayem, among others, to life in prison on charges of terrorist murder in connection with 2016 suicide bombings that killed 32 people and wounded hundreds at Brussels airport and a busy metro station. Krayem was aboard the commuter train that was attacked, but he did not detonate the explosives he was carrying. At its peak, IS controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017 and was notorious for its brutality — much of it directed against fellow Sunni Muslims as well as against those the group deemed to be heretics. In March 2019, the US-backed and Kurdish-led fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces captured the last sliver of land ruled by the IS group in the eastern Syrian town of Baghouz. While the group has lost its hold on all of the territory it once controlled, sleeper cells still stage occasional attacks in Iraq and Syria and abroad.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Sweden charges man over 2014 killing of Jordan pilot in Syria
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish prosecutors pressed charges on Tuesday against a man on suspicion of war crimes and terrorism over the murder of a Jordanian air force pilot who was burned to death in Syria a decade ago. The Swede, named in court documents as Osama Krayem, 32, has previously been convicted of involvement in attacks in Paris in 2015 and in Brussels in 2016. The Islamic State militant group, which once imposed a reign of terror over millions of people in Syria and Iraq, captured Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh in December 2014 and later published a video of him being burned alive in a cage. The Swedish Prosecution Authority charged Krayem with gross war crimes and terrorism, the indictment showed. "Krayem, together with and in agreement with other perpetrators belonging to IS, killed/deprived Muath al-Kasasbeh of his life," the authority said in the indictment. It said Krayem had forced the pilot to the cage and that he also posed for a camera, knowing the footage would be dispersed as a manifestation of a plan and ideology advocated by Islamic State. Krayem's Swedish lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Krayem has been temporarily transferred to Sweden from France to stand trial at the Stockholm district court. Islamic State controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017, and was defeated in its last bastions in Syria in 2019. Under Swedish legislation, courts can try people for crimes against international law committed abroad.
