One of Sweden

The head of one of the largest crimes organizations in Sweden, accused of instigating an increase in violent crime, has been arrested more than 1,600 miles away in Turkey, Swedish police said on Friday.

The police did not identify the man by name, but the Swedish media appointed him as Ismail Abdo, 35, head of the rumba crime organization and was allegedly orchestrating abroad operations.

Abdo is one of the most wanted criminals in Sweden and the issue of an international arrest warrant since 2024.

The Scandinavian country, once known for its low crime rates, has fought for years to control organized crime.

Criminal networks are involved in drug and weapons trafficking, well -being fraud and regular shootings and bombing that have affected the country in recent years.

It is also reported that networks have been infiltrated in the Welfare sector of Sweden, local policy, the legal and educational system, as well as the attention of youth arrest.

Police say that the leaders of criminal networks operate more and more from abroad, orchestrating murders and attacks through social networks and often recruit young children under the age of criminal responsibility to carry out attacks.

Abdo once directed the Newstrot crime network together with Rawa Majid, the other most wanted criminal in Sweden who was sanctioned earlier this year by the United States treasure, and it is suspected that the two have controlled large parts of the Swedish drug market.

But the couple fell, and a new violent chapter in the Gang wars of Sweden began when Abdo’s mother was killed in September 2023 at her home in Uppsala, BBC reported.

Abdo’s rumba gang has fought a violent fight against Majid and Newstrot.

Abdo was arrested in a raid made by the Turkish security forces, police said.

“In an operation of application of the law in Turkey, the Turkish police arrested today a Swedish man who for many years has been suspected of crimes related to drugs and instigating serious violent crimes in Sweden,” police said in a statement.

“The arrest is the result of the objective work with the time between the Turkish and Swedish judicial systems,” Mats Berggren, an interim deputy director of the National Police Department of the Swedish Police (NOA), said in the statement.

Recent violence in Sweden

Sweden has been full of violence in recent months.

In April, three young people aged 15 to 20 were murdered in a shooting In full daylight to a hairdresser in the center of Uppsala, about 45 miles north of Stockholm.

Only a few days before, a mother and her young son were seriously injured when a homemade bomb crossed her home, the media reported, adding that a neighbor suspicious of ties with criminal gangs had been the real target.

In early April, two people died in an alleged gang fight in Gothenburg, while a Renowned fast was shot dead in a gang battle in the city in December.

Sweden was also shaken by his The worst mass shooting in February When Rickard Andersson, 35, entered the Adult Education Center of Risbergska of the Campus in the city of Orebro and shot 10 people before turning the gun.

The Swedish government has proposed a new legislation that would allow the police to cable children under 15 in an attempt to stop violence, according to the BBC.

According to the global statista database, Sweden had the third highest number of homicides that involve firearms per 100,000 inhabitants in Europe in 2022, behind Montenegro and Albania.

The data of the National Council for the Prevention of the Crime of Sweden show that the shootings have decreased since the 2022 peak year, but the number of explosions has increased.

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