In both shootings, automatic rifles of model AK-47 Kalashnikov were used, among other things.
Powerful melee weapons that are primarily intended for use in military contexts.
One of the arms dealers SVT has been in contact with confirms that there are plenty of these types of weapons for sale on the black market in Sweden.
- I know that it is possible to arrange an illegal Kalashnikov in 15 minutes, but for those who want to buy and own a legal one, it will take at least five years, says the man who wishes to remain anonymous.
Photo: Police preliminary investigation
Well-planned executions
At 01.20 on 5 December 2019, two men, 39 and 45 years old, were shot to death outside the nightclub Hugo on Slottsgatan in Norrköping.
At least 24 shots are fired and the 39-year-old dies immediately when a bullet hits him in the head.
The 45-year-old suffered serious injuries and later died in hospital.
The 39-year-old was one of the leaders of the criminal gang No Surrender MC and according to police theory the main target of the act.
Four months later, at midnight on Maundy Thursday, April 9, 2020, a 37-year-old man was shot dead in a car at a fast food restaurant on Koppargatan in Ingelsta.
According to the police investigation, at least eleven shots were fired with an AK-47.
One bullet hits the 37-year-old in the left upper arm, another yesterday into the body and injures several vital organs.
The man dies on the spot.
The 37-year-old and a 31-year-old man, both connected to No Surrender MC, had been tricked into it and then attacked in an ambush.
The 31-year-old survived unscathed.
Both acts are to be regarded as well-planned executions, the police investigation shows.
Pistols were delivered to Norrköping
Both shots used Glock pistols, made in Austria
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The pistols were originally legal weapons that for various reasons ended up on the black market.
After coming into the possession of a heavily criminally charged 25-year-old man - called "The Long One" and living in Lund - the weapons found their way to Norrköping.
The police investigation shows that the Glock 17 used in the double murder was delivered to the accused in Norrköping on 13 September 2019 by the 25-year-old.
After the act on December 5, the remains of the pistol were in the getaway car, a VW Golf that was found set on fire outside Rejmyre the same night.
The 25-year-old was sentenced as recently as July 2020 to a 13-year prison sentence by Gothenburg District Court for involvement in attempted murder, aggravated weapon crime and two explosions.
The Glock 17 used in the double murder outside the nightclub Hugo.
Photo: Police preliminary investigation
Found in motorcycle
The investigation also includes a Glock Lone Star Wolf - a variant of model 19. The weapon was used in what the police describe as a diversionary maneuver intended by the gang out in Navestad a few hours before the Ingelstam murder on 9 April 2020.
The pistol was found the day after the murder in a house search hidden in the saddle compartment of a scooter motorcycle belonging to one of the accused, a 30-year-old man.
The police believe that the 30-year-old is a leading figure in the gang and the one who mainly planned the murders.
The police investigation shows that this pistol was delivered by the 25-year-old to Norrköping on 4 August 2019 and according to the technical analysis, the weapon was used in two previous shootings in Skåne.
Two AK-47 Kalashnikovs
The Kalashnikov used in the double murder on 5 December 2019 was of the Zastava brand and model M70AB2.
This particular model began to be manufactured in 1970 in a Serbian weapons factory for the then Yugoslav army and has a collapsible piston, which means that it takes up less space.
The remains of the weapon were found in the burned-out VW Golf that was used as a getaway car from the nightclub.
In the murder of the 37-year-old on April 9, 2020, another version of an AK-47 was used.
The model is called AKM and was made in Romania, probably in 1989. The weapon had the piston removed and was found in the getaway car, a BMW X5, which was set on fire at Yxbacken the same night.
How the automatic carbines came to Sweden and Norrköping has not been investigated by the police, but they were probably bought down in the Balkans or in one of the old eastern states and then smuggled into the country and resold here.
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The remains of the AK-47 Zastava used in the double murder outside the nightclub Hugo.
Photo: Police preliminary investigation
Hiding weapons in holiday homes
But the accused six men had more powerful weapons in their arsenal.
During a house search on 1 September 2020 in a holiday home that the gang had access to, the police found another automatic carbine with a silencer, a modified AK4 that was manufactured for the Swedish military in the late 60s.
Police also found a large quantity of ammunition and several magazines, as well as explosive cartridges and a hand grenade made in the former Yugoslavia.
In one of the plastic bags in which the hand grenade was wrapped, the technicians found a fingerprint belonging to a 29-year-old man from Norrköping.
The 29-year-old is currently charged with a felony in a large tangle in Uppsala.
He has been appearing for several years in other investigations of, among other things, bombings linked to serious organized crime.
The trial of the gang murders in Norrköping started on Wednesday 7 April and is expected to last until 20 May.