Two 14-year-old boys with a migration background were arrested for a grenade attack on a family villa while the family and children were inside in Eskilstuna in April, but they were then immediately released due to their age. They have been convicted for the grenade attack but will not be punished.
“I am not aware of what social services have done or are doing with them,” said prosecutor Anton Larsson Forsberg to Swedish news outlet Samnytt.
Nevertheless, the grenade attack could have led to fatalities, and at the very least, the two youths destroyed a part of the house and left the family in terror.
On the evening of April 22, a Swedish mother was home with her small children and had just finished putting the youngest child to sleep.
She then sat down to watch television when she noticed movement from individuals outside her window.
In the next moment, her house was rocked by an explosion so powerful that a nearby neighbor later said he fell off the couch in response to the blast.
“I looked out the window but was so scared and didn’t really see anything,” said the mother.
When she went downstairs, she saw shrapnel holes in her door and debris covering the hallway. Chips of the door were also on the ground.
The hand grenade had detonated on the woman’s porch, sending steel shrapnel in all directions, which tore through her house. Nobody was injured in the attack.
Police arrived on scene and almost immediately apprehended the two youths.
“They were found quite quickly via a taxi booking and some other information. So they could be picked up and interrogated by the police,” said prosecutor Anton Larsson Forsberg to Samnytt.
However, the suspects were only 14, which meant they were not allowed to be detained by police.
“If they were 15, I could have arrested them and maybe remanded them into custody. But now it didn’t work, so they were handed over to social authorities immediately after the deed,” he said.
Prosecutors and police had plenty of evidence to work with, as the two teens filmed their own grenade attack, which was recovered from their phones.
“They have used an app called Signal to write with their clients. The police have somehow managed to access what has been written to the boys, but not what the boys may have answered,” said the police.
“Then we can see, among other things, that they write that ‘No one should be hurt, it’s just to scare them.’”
One boy admitted to being at the scene. On Sept. 1, both boys were found guilty of public destruction, but will face no punishment due to their age.
One boy is from Tanzania and is not a Swedish citizen. He arrived in the country with his mother in 2023.
The family targeted in the attack is not known to have any connection to criminal activity, and nobody from the family has any criminal record. However, the family’s father has a brother, who police believe the criminals were attempting to target.
“This is what we can say: There is a restaurant called Efendys. It is a chain in Central Sweden, and they have a restaurant in Eskilstuna,” said Forsberg. “This man in the family, his brother owns that restaurant. And there were some attacks on it at the beginning of the year.”
The restaurant had been hit with Molotov cocktails and a Thermos bomb, and police believe there is a connection with the attack on the family villa.
Earlier this year, Remix News wrote about how there is now one explosion a day in Sweden as gang violence spirals.
In 2024, hand grenade attacks more than doubled in Sweden. As Remix News reported, “Sweden is witnessing an alarming rise in the use of hand grenades by criminal gangs, with the number of explosions more than doubling in 2024 compared to last year. By mid-October, there had been 22 recorded grenade attacks, up from nine in 2023, according to figures from the Police National Bomb Data Centre.”
In 2023, Ardavan Khoshnood, a guest lecturer at Malmö University and senior fellow at Lund University, warned that Sweden had become the bombing capital of Europe and was second only to Mexico as the top country in the world not currently at war to experience the most bombings on its territory.
In a trend seen with other nations, criminal gangs are recruiting extremely young people, often on social media, to partake in his risk attacks and robberies. The logic is that due to the young age of the perpetrators, they cannot be held criminally liable. The problem has been especially prevalent for French authorities dealing with violent home invasions, often orchestrated over Snapchat by criminal leaders.
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