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Disgruntled 'Black Cobra' threatens hairdresser

Published: 9 Feb 12 14:15 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/39016/20120209/

A man in southern Sweden has been charged with assault after threatening to ‘bring in his gang’ to a local hairdressing salon after being refused a haircut.

“I’ll come back here with my Black Cobra friends and sort this salon out!” said the man, according to Skånskan newspaper.

Black Cobra is the name of a Danish gang, that has crossed the border into the troubled Malmö district of Rosengård, specializing in drug trafficking, extortion and murder.

The hairdresser had initially refused the man service as he seemed drunk, but soon realized that the man wasn’t as harmless as he seemed.

Angry to be turned down, the man informed the woman that he was a feared criminal, and threatened to ‘sort out’ (göra fint) the salon if she didn’t comply with his request.

He then proceeded to throw Christmas baubles at the hairdresser.

The woman told him she would check her office to see what she could do about finding a free time in her schedule for a cut, and meanwhile called the police.

The police arrested the man shortly after.

While the woman was initially frightened by the man's threats, she later learnt that he wasn’t a feared criminal at all.

In fact, in police questionings the man denied any affiliation with the Black Cobra gang, and claimed he couldn’t remember mentioning them, nor the alleged threats.

Instead he claimed that the hairdresser had treated him badly and he had become irritated.

Her behaviour allegedly ‘clicked something in his brain’, which forced him to blank out everything that happened thereafter.

The man was charged with assault on Wednesday, for the events which occurred in early January.

The Black Cobras last made international headlines after stealing a selection of small cakes from a delivery truck in 2010.

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15:27 February 9, 2012 by Svensksmith
Ooooo, the deadly Black Cobra gang with their neatly coiffed hair and manicured nails.
15:36 February 9, 2012 by Token-not-found
Funny article
15:49 February 9, 2012 by millionmileman
This is how Israeli deals with Salon Terrorism!

http://youtu.be/ucmnTmYpGhI "You Don't Mess With the Zohan"
15:55 February 9, 2012 by glenquagmaire
funny.... coming for a hair cut and getting into trouble... and the gang itself stole small cakes..
16:32 February 9, 2012 by Gamla Hälsingebock
"The Black Cobras last made international headlines after stealing a selection of small cakes from a delivery truck in 2010."

Wow!

What can they do to top that!
16:46 February 9, 2012 by roaringchicken92
I blacked out, officer, so I don't remember stealing the small cakes. But after hours of government-provided intensive psychotherapeutic counseling and examining the deep recesses of my suppressed subconscious, I do now remember they were delicious.

But if you tell my fellow gang members this, officer, I think I will have another blackout and forget I told you this.
22:05 February 9, 2012 by Jannik
This gang is not "danish" as the article claims. Its made up of young men of middle eastern descent. There are practically no ethnic danes involved in this gang of scum.

These bastards have been a real plague in parts of Copenhagen. So its no surprise that they have decided to "culturally enrich" Malmø with their presence, as there is a lot of money involved in drug trafficking.
00:18 February 10, 2012 by BillyB
So the story is "man got upset in hairdressers"......
08:13 February 10, 2012 by Da Goat
Not sure if they should have let him go.....sounds like they had a nut case ......rattled him around and let him go !

Perhaps he would have behaved if she gave him a small fika cake LOL
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