A Swedish 17-year-old is in custody in Germany – as a suspect of having planned murder.
The case is connected to an attempted murder of a member of the motorcycle gang Hells Angels in Cologne.
The Swede was arrested in October, writes the German news agency DPA.
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In October, German police arrested a Swedish 17-year-old in the city of Cologne. According to the suspicions, he planned to commit a murder, writes German media.
The 17-year-old had offered his services “as a contract killer” on social media, said chief prosecutor Ulrich Bremer in Cologne to the German television and radio channel WDR. He is then said to have been recruited by an unknown person to murder a “so far unidentified person”.
Connection to motorcycle gang
The ordered murder may have links to local motorcycle gangs, according to the prosecutor, who explains that the German police received a tip “just in time” from the Swedish police. This led to the Swede being arrested in a room he had rented in Cologne.
“For more than a year, a bloody conflict has been raging in the motorcycle gang environment in Cologne”Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger writes in an article under the heading:
“17-year-old Swede offered to become an assassin in Cologne”.
The case with the 17-year-old is suspected to be connected to an attempted murder last Saturday. Then unknown persons tried to murder a 36-year-old member of the motorcycle club Hells Angels in Cologne, who survived but was badly injured.
Eight bullets pierced the windshield of the man’s Audi, writes German Bild, which calls the victim “Orhan A”.
“Not the first attempted murder”
“The attack on this Hells Angel was apparently not the first attempted murder. In October, a 17-year-old killer allegedly killed him,” writes the newspaper.
The police already found pictures of the 36-year-old in the arrested Swede’s phone in October, according to German media.
They then sought out the intended victim and warned him that his life was in danger. He replied that he had no enemies – even though someone had placed three empty shell casings on the windshield of his car.
The 36-year-old received no police protection.
Arrested in rented room
The Swedish 17-year-old arrived in Cologne in October and the police arrested him on October 11 in a room he had rented. In connection with the arrest, a weapon and ammunition were seized.
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