VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
THIS PROGRAM CONTAINS VERY STRONG IMAGERY.
My colleague and I were standing at Norrtull.
We'd been talking to two guardians who weren't getting along.
When the alarm went out
that someone was shooting automatic weapons out on Lidingö...
we had to tell them firmly that we had to leave,
and we headed out to Lidingö.
The task leader gave just one directive.
"This is what I want us to do."
The escape routes must be blocked off so no one can leave Lidingö.
And on Lidingö, that's easy.
There's a car bridge and a cycle bridge.
Pretty much all available free cars in the city answer,
to hold the bridge.
ASSASSINATION SQUAD
At 3:45 pm on the 5th of June, 2018,
several people call emergency services in Stockholm,
and report shooting with automatic weapons on Lidingö,
and that one person has been shot.
I was an investigator of Major Crimes in Stockholm City,
and this happened during an afternoon when I was still at work.
And pretty quickly, we were called to Norrmalm Police,
and we were involved during the operation,
so we were there from very early on. It had just taken place.
A few police cars were to drive to the crime scene,
following which, remaining police were to block exits from Lidingö.
To stop the perpetrator from leaving the scene.
So we decided to go to the small cycle bridge under the car bridge.
Because there were no police there yet.
So we parked the car level with the railway track.
We blocked it off,
so pedestrians and cyclists wouldn't come from this side of the bridge.
Then we stand up, further by the bridge,
in order to be able to observe the length of it,
to watch for anyone of interest who might be walking along it.
While Oscar and his colleagues watch the bridge from Lidingö,
more police cars and an ambulance arrive at the crime scene.
At the scene, a man badly injured with bullet wounds
who's life the medical services immediately try to safe,
while police start collecting witness statements
which could help in the hunt for the perpetrators.
There aren't many people out and about,
but there are several who heard gunshot and came to the window,
and can provide information about important observations.
It's early afternoon. It was a fairly sunny day.
People sat on their balconies, and so on.
The victim and his partner had been in town having lunch,
they drive home in the car, but only make it a few metres
before he's attacked.
A neighbour filmed the attack from his balcony.
A person came up and started shooting.
The victim was quite a large man, he was hit in the back,
and he turns to fight back.
There's some kind of struggle,
the victim tries to run from the perpetrator,
but he's injured.
He's been shot once, maybe twice.
After awhile, the victim collapsed.
The perpetrator then stands over him, turns the gun around,
and starts hitting his head and face.
We counted eleven times.
This sequence is also filmed with a mobile phone.
Some people try to call attention to the perpetrator,
yelling, "Stop!" and so on.
Because it's fairly brutal.
The victim tries to protect his face with his hands,
but you can see when he loses consciousness.
Then the perpetrator runs and gets in the passenger seat
of a grey car.
And then the car drives away at high speed.
Fairly soon after the alarm has come in about the shooting,
another alarm comes in about a burning car...
at a parking lot, just a few hundred metres from the crime scene.
The basic theory is that it's the getaway car that's been burnt,
a fairly well-known approach.
If it is the getaway car,
it could mean the perpetrators are now running on foot.
Meanwhile, Rasmus, who lives on Lidingö,
arrived at Ropsten underground station,
situated on the mainland,
to continue home on the Lidingö train over the bridge.
I notice police in heavy helmets and vests at Ropsten.
On the way over the Lidingö bridge, I think I receive a notice,
or I go in and ask, and find out that a shooting has occurred.
Then as we get near the end of the bridge,
I see two younger men sitting by the water.
My first thought was that he was drinking the water.
Or that he was washing himself.
So I keep going along here, all the way to the station over here.
Then I walk all the way back here, and try to look down at these guys.
They've moved back a bit and they're sitting on some stairs.
It's like they're trying to catch their breaths.
That's also strange, in some way.
So I call 911, and my call is connected.
So I squeeze in behind a pillar here
so they don't see me and realise I raised the alarm.
That's about the time they walk up the stairs.
And then they walk along the road here, toward the bridge.
And this is where I follow.
I just follow behind them, out on the Lidingö track,
trying to keep a distance.
So I tell 911 that these men are on their way to Stockholm.
When I get over the bridge, I see there are police
on the road, on the big bridge.
I start gesticulating and waving.
I don't think I scream, because these guys are in front of me.
But I make contact with a police officer on the bridge.
There's a witness who marks out two people
walking toward us around the middle of the bridge.
The operation leader naturally wants us to arrest these people,
so my colleague and I walk onto the cycle bridge to make the arrest.
These two individuals,
they move in a way that makes it clear they don't want to be seen.
They've got hoods pulled right down, they're hiding their faces.
And they fit the description given by the witness.
So it's easy to see who we should arrest.
But it quickly becomes clear this isn't the perfect arrest location.
We don't know if these people are armed or not,
we don't want to be forced to shoot along the bridge,
because there are people in front of and behind these perpetrators.
So, I talk to my colleague, and we decide to wait,
so there's no one between us and the suspects.
And when the last person between us and the suspects passes,
we draw our guns at the same time, shout, "Police, lay down!"
And the suspects do so.
And we quickly notice their faces are injured.
One has a blister that's filling up and growing while he's laying there,
and the other's hair is singed.
We approach and arrest them,
and we conclude they were in the vicinity of the burning car,
and it exploded,
so they might have been standing too close and had their faces burned.
So we drive them to the police station,
and the investigative work can take over from there.
We begin with news that the 57-year-old man
who was shot on Lidingö earlier today has now died of his injuries.
It was around 3:45 pm today that witnesses reported to police
that gunshot had been heard out on Lidingö.
Multiple people are now in custody,
and police are referring to the crime as a murder.
In order to avoid being injured,
the victim's partner was forced to take cover during the attack,
and therefore didn't see much of the incident.
But, during questioning, it turns out she has more to tell
that could be of interest.
The partner says she and the victim were having lunch in town,
they didn't feel they were followed.
But she says that he has had quite a number of conflicts.
He was a middle-aged man who had worked almost his whole adult life
within construction in various roles,
as a consultant, and... that kind of thing.
He's involved in a building project that's received a lot of attention,
and where there have been a number of conflicts.
It was the construction of student apartments in Spånga.
Modules were to come from China and then be made into student housing,
but a lot had gone wrong.
The modules weren't good quality,
and there were conflicts between the construction company
and the subcontractors that were hired.
There was quite a lot of money involved in this project,
and some unpleasant things had happened to one of his colleagues.
So he'd felt a bit threatened.
Our basic theory is that he's been shot because of something
related to this conflict.
At the crime scene, forensics are hard at work looking for clues.
They look more closely at the burned out car.
And, after comparing it with notes from witness testimony,
they believe is most likely the getaway car.
The car is so burned out,
that there's no technical evidence left to secure,
other than to establish the identity of the car, which we can do.
As a result, we learn the car has been stolen a couple of days prior.
It's vital to interrogate the two men arrested on the Lidingö bridge
to see if they can provide an explanation.
They don't want to say why they're on Lidingö,
or how they received burns, or got soot on their faces,
or why some of their clothes smell like petrol.
And one was very badly burned, especially on his face.
He must have been in extreme pain.
He received medical attention, and so on.
We have witness testimony that mentions two perpetrators,
we have a burned out car,
and two people with burns, smelling of petrol.
We naturally speculated they were probably the shooter and driver.
During the day and evening, we also learn that a witness
who lives in a house a short distance away
has observed a car parked for several hours.
They had observed a grey, older combi
that had been parked in their car park from 11 o'clock that morning
until a quarter past three in the afternoon.
The neighbours thought this car was so weird they took a picture of it.
And you can establish from the picture
that it's the same car that was later burned.
These neighbours had reacted to the fact that this car
had been there so long, that it was full of kids,
that they smoked in the car, outside the car, and so forth.
They talked about six people of mixed ethnicities and genders,
both girls and guys.
At around the same time, information also came in.
After the car had been set alight, a witness saw three to four people
leaving the scene of the car fire.
So we had two under arrest
and three to four who left what was probably the getaway car,
after it was set alight.
And then six to seven people have been in the car while it was parked.
So it doesn't really add up.
When the police examine the photos of the suspicious car,
with the kids who were seen on the morning before the murder,
they see both men who were arrested on the Lidingö bridge in the crowd.
But none of the men match the description of the man
witnesses saw commit the murder.
Some describe a dark-skinned, young, thin perpetrator,
possibly masked.
So it's not a lot to go off.
The two men who have been arrested
consistently make no comment during initial interrogations.
But they have things on them that provide clues we can follow.
There's a phone, a note with a phone number,
with which we can investigate the case further.
This note with the phone number is of great interest, since we...
try to identify the owner, and we find out this number is known,
within another police investigation.
Our colleagues in Gothenburg was wiretapping someone
to whom this number belonged.
This case also concerned murder with a gun,
around two weeks prior.
In conversation with our colleagues in Gothenburg,
we realise that the surveillance in their investigation
likely contained valuable information for us.
I work within major violent crime in Gothenburg.
And this incident was on Sunday, May 20th, 2018.
I receive a call that evening,
"There's been a shooting in Guldheden."
Guldheden is a fairly calm area, quite central in Gothenburg.
The plaintiff, the mother of his children, lived there.
He'd been with the children and had parked his car outside the building.
They'd been playing at a playground and when he went to move the car,
he goes by himself, opens the door and sits in the driver's seat.
As he does this, a masked perpetrator approaches from behind,
and, with an automatic weapon,
shot a large number of times through the front-left door,
and the driver who is sitting alone in the car,
is hit by a large number of bullets in the torso.
He's pronounced dead an hour later at the hospital.
On Sunday evening, in the suburb of Guldheden,
a man in a car is shot to death,
with what's believed to be an automatic weapon.
The shots startled neighbours as the volleys echoed between houses,
and witnesses tell police that two men flee from the scene
in a dark blue car. No arrests have been made.
The victim was known to police in Gothenburg.
He moved within the gang criminal scene, but inconsistently.
He doesn't appear in any ongoing conflicts,
so there's no clear motive as to why this should happen to him.
But in another case,
a GPS transmitter was found under a car,
in this context.
So, as a result of that, you look a little more closely at the car.
And then forensics find a GPS transmitter,
which is stuck using a strong magnet
under the car the victim was sitting in.
It has a SIM card and is connected to the mobile network.
And, via an administrative phone,
you can get GPS coordinates for where the car is located.
Unfortunately, police can't track the GPS transmitter to a person.
But, instead, they receive something else that might help them further.
The perpetrators have been seen leaving the crime scene
in an older Volvo.
And, shortly after the shooting,
a report is made of an attempt to set a Volvo alight.
The information comes from a caller
who sees two people try to set fire to a car.
It starts to partially burn,
but he manages to put it out with a fire extinguisher.
We establish quite quickly this is the wanted car that has been found.
When investigators search for the getaway car's registration number,
they see it was stopped
just a few days before the Guldheden murder.
In the car, sat a 20-year-old man called Sebastian Makonnen.
He's the person police in Gothenburg are surveilling and wiretapping,
as they suspect he could be the shooter in the Guldheden murder.
But there were two other people of interest in the car.
The two men who were arrested on the Lidingö bridge.
Could all three be involved in both murders?
So we realise there are a lot of people here who are,
or could be of interest to our investigation.
So we develop a collaboration with police in Gothenburg
where our investigations run in parallel,
and we try to share as much information as we can.
It's decided that all information, including from wiretapping,
is to be shared between investigations.
They were a little ahead of us in time.
They'd had both wiretapping and surveillance on Makonnen,
and in this material, you can see that he has stayed at a hotel
in the company of the two men on the bridge and a few other people,
prior to the murder on Lidingö,
here in Stockholm.
Two rooms were booked under the name
of one of the men arrested on the bridge.
Investigators retrieve security footage from the hotel in Stockholm,
to see if they can see who was there and when they were there.
It's awhile before we can fully clarify
who everyone in the security footage is,
but most of them are already known to police,
particularly locally, in the areas where they live.
So we have a pretty good picture of who they are,
what they are capable of doing, and who they associate with.
It should be remembered there was talk of both guys and girls,
six to seven people, and so on,
who had been on Lidingö, right around the time of the incident.
And here's a group of guys and girls on camera, of various ethnicities,
who leave the hotel together,
so we can theorise that they then go out to Lidingö.
It's a puzzle you put together, piece by piece.
Now police have a rich gallery of people they suspect
could be involved in the murder in Gothenburg and the one on Lidingö.
But how are the murders connected?
Why have both victims been murdered?
Fairly early in the investigation,
it becomes clear that the people involved
have no personal connection to the victim on Lidingö.
That's similar to in Gothenburg where there was also no connection.
It happens in two different places,
two different kinds of victim, you could say.
So, the logic is really hard,
for us to understand to begin with.
Eventually, we conclude that it must be some kind of
roving assassination squad.
A hit job, basically.
Now investigators need to find out
who is part of this suspected assassination squad.
Investigators in Gothenburg make a discovery
that could lead them to additional people involved,
and how the group works.
The day before the Guldheden murder,
Sebastian Makonnen checks into a hotel in Gothenburg
with his girlfriend.
But, when police look at security footage from the hotel,
it turns out they weren't alone.
In addition to Sebastian Makonnen and his girlfriend,
there are two young girls.
They are of interest in the investigation.
We try to figure out what role they might have had in the crime.
And we identify them using security footage and phone data.
We see them at Central Station after the murder.
They have one of those light blue IKEA bags.
They put it in a storage locker at Central.
Police search the locker, but it has been emptied.
Despite this, investigators decide to arrest the young women,
and charge them with suspicion of aiding and abetting murder
and aggravated criminal possession of a weapon in the Guldheden murder.
We prioritise their interrogations
and let a good interrogator create a good relationship with these girls.
It's not long before both of them choose to tell us
what they've been involved in in Gothenburg.
They say they were called there by Sebastian Makkonen's girlfriend.
They take the train to Gothenburg and are met at the station.
And they understand from their conversations
that something is going to take place the next day.
They're told there might be a robbery or something similar
that they'll be involved in.
But they get the idea, at any rate, that there's a guy being watched.
There's a GPS, they know where the guy is.
The next day, they leave with them in the older Volvo,
and one of the girls is left at a location,
the other girl sits at a bus stop a short distance away.
They're not witnesses to the actual murder.
It's Sebastian Makkonen and his girlfriend
who are present at the crime scene.
But after the murder, they take the automatic weapon,
his clothes, pack them into the bag,
and describe taking it to Central and putting it in a locker.
The success of the arrests and the interrogation of both the girls
in the investigation of the Guldheden murder in Gothenburg
reaches investigators in Stockholm.
So we decided to do the same thing.
We'll go for the girls as well.
We needed more leads to follow, basically.
The girls have been involved in the investigation from early on,
not least in the security footage from the hotel.
Then we also have the witness who took photos of the parked car,
nearby the murder.
They talked about two girls at that location.
So, the theory is that they've known about, and might have been involved.
Evidence must now be found that can prove the two girls' involvement.
In order to move forward, police go through the secret wiretapping
that was done prior to Sebastian Makkonen's phone.
It turns out they've discussed requiring clothing,
and Sebastian Makkonen says someone has to get petrol.
Account statements are retrieved through a financial investigation,
which showed a purchase at a petrol station on Lidingö,
with a card belonging to one of the girls.
We went there.
Unfortunately, they had no film remaining,
but they remembered these girls very well,
because they didn't really know what they were doing,
and they wanted to buy cans
and had to ask for help because they didn't know what kind they needed.
Then they filled the cans with petrol, they bought 30 litres.
Then they wanted sandwiches and soda and cigarettes and all that,
and they didn't have enough cash,
which is why one of the girls had to use her card to pay for it all.
So that's how we found out they'd bought the petrol.
This is, naturally, extremely interesting,
she doesn't own a car, what's she doing on Lidingö?
she has no connection to Lidingö.
It becomes gradually more apparent we have to speak to these girls.
We have to take them in for questioning
and hear their explanations.
Police arrest the two girls
who they suspect are involved in the murder on Lidingö.
These were very young girls,
and neither of them had any serious run-ins with the law prior to this.
They had fairly healthy family relationships and so on.
So it's a fairly strong contrast, being arrested by police
for a major crime, and then be more or less in custody.
One of the girls started talking fairly quickly.
One of the girls has been flirting on some level
with one of the guys on the bridge.
They've written to one another, they've met up a bit.
The day before the murder, the guys got in touch
and wanted to meet up.
They take public transport the whole way to the hotel.
They stay the night and go along to Lidingö the next morning.
They claim they didn't know what was planned for Lidingö,
they just went along for fun.
They say the guys asked them to go buy petrol,
they thought that was reasonable,
of course, you help out and go buy petrol.
One of the guys goes with them to help carry,
but he never goes into the shop, he stands outside.
They buy the 30 litre cans and carry them down to the car.
Then the guys go to the bridge and the girls sit at a lookout
and wait near where the car is later burned.
But they claim they don't know what they're waiting for.
And, at some point, one of the guys says to the girls,
"Soon you'll be given a bag to take away from here,
and you'll be paid for it."
The girls then transported the bag from Lidingö
and stored it at home for a few days
before it's eventually handed over to a person out of town.
Both in Stockholm and Gothenburg,
police now have a large number of suspects to move forward with.
In the hopes of securing more evidence, they wait to arrest more.
But on the 26th of June, just three weeks after the murder on Lidingö,
something happens that forces them to act.
Fairly soon after the murder on Lidingö, we received information
that Sebastian Makkonen and a guy from Stockholm
were on their way down to Gothenburg again,
and that there was a risk that another violent crime
would take place in Gothenburg.
Fairly soon, a car comes along
with criminals from Biskopsgården in Gothenburg,
and they pick up these guys from Stockholm.
These guys are followed by surveillance.
They continue in toward the city centre,
to an area where surveillance follows
and sees one person disappear into a residential area.
Shortly thereafter, he comes out carrying a paper bag.
They follow him back to the car,
and before they get to the hotel, they conduct a traffic stop.
In the paper bag, there's a drum magazine,
with ammunition for a Kalashnikov.
They find the apartment they think he's been in,
and inside, a Kalashnikov is found.
Two pistols and ammunition are also found.
As well as two of the GPS transmitters
that had previously been found in this context.
The day before this arrest,
a father of a guy has been in touch,
and reported finding something strange under his car.
The man who used to own the car was shot in 2016.
And a police car goes out, finds a GPS transmitter under the car,
and writes up a harassment report.
But when GPS transmitters are found the next day in this context,
and weapons are found, and people on the opposing side are found
connected to this apartment,
a report is written up on conspiracy to murder.
So these four people,
two from Biskopsgården and two from Stockholm,
are arrested and detained for conspiracy to murder.
One of the four men who police have arrested in Gothenburg
is 20-year-old Sebastian Makkonen.
He's charged on suspicion of murder,
as there is a lot to suggest he is the shooter in the Guldheden murder.
But the question is, what role has he had in the murder on Lidingö,
since analysis of his phone traffic shows he wasn't on Lidingö
on the day of the murder.
It becomes gradually clear to us
that Sebastian has had an important role
as a kind of overseer for who is to do what.
Sebastian has probably been the one who accepted the assignment
to make sure the victim on Lidingö is shot to death.
And he uses people who he knows from before, and gives them various jobs.
One to shoot, one to drive the getaway car,
one to buy petrol, a few to burn the car, a few to deal with the gun.
So everyone gets different jobs in this.
It's of utmost important for the police to find two people,
the shooter and the driver.
Since it's suspected that Makkonen is the spider in the web,
his phone traffic is searched again for clues.
What police can see is that he's had a lot of contact
with a 23-year-old man named Hrayr.
Hrayr is known to police already,
because we've seen that he was at the hotel.
And we also see that they spend a lot of time together, those two.
Surveillance showed that, after the murder, he and Hrayr go
to Kista mall and buy clothes for quite a lot of money.
So we hypothesise that they're buying clothes
with part of the remuneration for the murder.
And we have a theory that he's also been on Lidingö,
since there's a witness testimony that describes a driver
with an appearance that could easily be Hrayr.
But in order to be able to confirm that he was actually there,
police need more evidence.
In technical investigation of the location
where the witness saw the getaway car parked right before the murder,
forensics find, among other things, cigarette butts.
When they're analysed,
it turns out one of the butts has Hrayr's DNA on it.
At the crime scene, forensics also find a knife
which also has traces of Hrayr's DNA on it.
But despite the evidence which can connect Hrayr to the crime scene,
investigators suspect he was the driver.
So the question remains, who was the shooter?
Fairly early on, we had a witness testimony
that the shooter was dark skinned.
You can't see any of his face in the film,
but you can see he has a couple of white Gucci shoes.
And when we watch the security footage from the hotel again,
it turns out there's a person there wearing these shoes.
Or, at least, identical shoes.
When police eventually manage to identify the man with the shoes,
whom they suspect may be the shooter,
he turns out to be only 17 years old.
We brought him in.
It's a bit special when dealing with young people,
Social Services have the be there,
and there are special regulations involved.
They're not detained to the same degree that older people are.
But he didn't say much.
He confessed that he had been at the hotel,
but after that he didn't acknowledge that he'd been on Lidingö.
What made it a bit tricky was that he only had a phone sporadically.
We had no phone record of him being on Lidingö,
which we had for the others.
Plus that the result of the technical investigation
at the car park on Lidingsbergsvägen
where all the other had left traces in one way or another,
there were no traces of the shooter,
because he doesn't smoke.
But there was witness testimony from Lidingsbergsvägen
that there was an African person who had been in the car.
It's a combination of analysis of security footage, phone traffic,
but also that he's socialised with Sebastian Makkonen,
both before and after the murder.
Put together, the analysis suggests that the shooter is the 17-year-old.
Now we start to get a pretty good idea of how this has gone down.
The driver was the area manager in a way.
He was a bit older as well, so he was the one
who ran things at the scene, since Makkonen wasn't there himself.
The girls, as I said, slipped in on a banana peel.
Then I think the guys we arrested on the bridge we henchmen, errand boys.
And the shooter really looked up to Makkonen.
But Makkonen didn't always treat him so kindly, so...
I think he felt that he was simply forced to do this.
On the 30th of January, 2019,
the trial begins at the Gothenburg District Court
and just over six months later, the final verdicts are handed down.
Sebastian Makkonen is convicted of the murder at Guldheden,
and for aiding and abetting murder on Lidingö.
His sentence is 14 years' prison.
The 17-year-old is convicted of the murder on Lidingö,
but receives, as a result of his young age,
just four years in juvenile detention.
while the driver Hrayr is also convicted of the murder on Lidingö,
and sentenced to 18 years' prison.
It's really strange that you can commit such a brutal crime,
and get four years' juvenile detention,
while the driver gets life in prison in the District Court,
defined as 18 years in the Court of Appeal.
It's a big difference.
And if Sebastian Makonnen had been one year older,
he'd have gotten life, for example.
We weren't able to prove the girls knew that a murder would take place,
so it was aggravated possession of a weapon, which I can understand.
And then there were the guys on the bridge,
and one of them was convicted, and the other acquitted.
He confessed he'd burned the car,
but the court didn't consider it possible to prove intent.
And what the court decides, that's the answer.
And you can feel however you like about it...
But of course I feel personally that he knew.
But that's just my opinion.
We haven't been able to prove who ordered the Lidingö murder.
It's the execution that we've been able to show proof of.
There's an instigator here, as well as in Guldheden.
But to find them, a link must be found between,
above all, between Makkonen and that person, and we haven't found one.
Or that Makkonen himself tells us who has given him this assignment,
and I don't see a very high chance of that.
And what drives them? I think various things drive them.
As for the guys, I think,
unfortunately, it's as simple as money and status,
that has driven them.
And where the girls are concerned, it's hard to say.
I don't think they've been driven by money or status,
but they might have thought it was fun to hang out with these guys.
They ended up in a situation they hadn't expected,
they didn't do it, as I said, for money or status,
but they've definitely been aware of what they've done.
In my view, anyway.
They have to live with this forever.
And that they've been involved in this...
I don't think all of them were mature enough to understand
how that will feel.
But I hope they do someday.
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