Gothenburg pub shooting
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The shootings at the pub Vår Krog & Bar in Gothenburg happened on 18 March 2015. Two unidentified gunmen entered a pub in Gothenburg, Sweden and began firing indiscriminately at people inside the restaurant.[1] The pub, Vår Krog & Bar, is located in the Biskopsgården neighbourhood of Gothenburg on Hisingen, an area that has witnessed gang violence.[2] The shootings are one of the rare times in which an innocent bystander has been killed in criminal rival gang violence in Sweden. The shooters were part of a gang from North Biskopsgården out for revenge.[4]
Gothenburg pub shooting | |
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Location | Gothenburg, Sweden |
Date | 18 March 2015 22:00 (CET) |
Target | Rival gang members (south Biskopsgården) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, gang shooting |
Weapons | AKM rifles |
Deaths | 2 |
Injured | 8-15[1][2] |
Perpetrators | Adam Abdulahi Ahmed Warsame Jonis Adan Onur Corap Josef Hällgren Abdulrahman [3] |
A year after the event, the Göteborgs-Posten newspaper described the shootings as "one of the most unprecedented crimes of 2015."[5] Other newspapers characterized it as part of "a wave of high-profile attacks in Sweden in 2015", and part of "a surge in violent conflict between rival criminal gangs."[6][7]
In 2010, Biskopsgården was the Gothenburg district which had the highest rate of gang violence. In 2012, a territorial crime gang in the area split into two factions. The bar shooting was meant to destroy one of the rival factions.[8]