Armed thieves escape after highway chaos
Published: 23 May 12 07:38 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/40988/20120523/
Police are searching for the men involved in a dramatic highway robbery in Stockholm on Tuesday night, in which one car was stolen at gunpoint and an armoured transport vehicle was rammed.
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The men rammed their own car into the armoured vehicle around 8.30pm on Tuesday night near Fredhäll in west Stockholm.
However, their own car was no match for the larger vehicle, and after the crash the men left their own car and made a run for it.
Witnesses saw three men, and told the paper that they were masked and carrying at least one automatic weapon.
The men fled the scene on foot. Soon after, a passing car was hijacked at gunpoint in a nearby area, which police assume was directly related to the crash on the highway.
“A person lost their car at gunpoint and the offenders left the scene in this car,” said Ulf Lindgren of the Stockholm police to Aftonbladet.
Some 20 police patrols and a helicopter were sent to the area, yet the men were not caught.
Meanwhile, the men’s own car was left on the highway, badly damaged from the ramming.
While no-one was injured in the melee, police are still unsure of the offenders’ whereabouts.
“We don’t know where they’ve gone but know what car we’re looking for,” Lindgren told the paper.
An investigation into aggravated robbery is underway.
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If the Sour Apples need to kick someone to feel better, I suggest the political side of Swedish justice--that is indeed a joke.
The Swedish police blow off what they consider minor crimes; although they are major to the victims. They manipulate statistics by not reporting criminal complaints or mislabeling them. They seem to be fairly competent at dealing with some murders, probably because they usually assume that one member of a couple killed their mate and they label everything else as gang related. They are far behind the curve because, as occassional says, they cannot begin to comprehend the mentality and mindset of these imported gangsters. They are village police caught in modern times and ill-prepared and ill-trained for the job. In some defense of your argument and the police, they are stymied by a justice system that is haphazard and, basically, an old boy network.
OT: As soon as the threat has automatic firearms the regular police shouldn't be in the lead anyway. There should be special teams or the army chasing these guys down, there should have been military grade helicopters in the air within 5 minutes of the report that an armored vehicle became the target of an assault. It is absolutely pathetic and a complete disgrace that these guys managed to get away. The whole reason these things keep occurring much more frequently lately is because the criminals keep getting away instead of ending up in a morgue.