COPS in Malmo have made their first arrest over the mysterious deaths of two Brits shot dead in a burnt out car.
Children’s football coaches Juan Cifuentes, 33, and Farooq Abdulrazak, 27, went missing while on a business trip to Denmark and Sweden.
Children’s football coaches Juan Cifuentes, 33, and Farooq Abdulrazak, 27, had gone missing while on a business trip to Denmark and Sweden
Aftonbladet.The two men were seen on CCTV renting a car in Copenhagen before they vanished[/caption]
In a statement Swedish prosecutors said: “The prosecutor has today arrested a person on probable cause suspected of aiding and abetting the murder of two British citizens who were found dead in a burnt-out car in Malmö on 14 July this year.
“There will now be interrogations, both with the suspect and others.”
Investigations continue in Sweden and the UK, the prosecutors added.
UK cops described the case as a “complex” investigation.
The men’s bodies were found shot dead in a burnt out car on an industrial estate in the Swedish city of Malmo last month.
Juan and Farooq were captured on CCTV hours earlier renting a car at Copenhagen Kastrup airport.
They are then said to have been heading over the border into Sweden.
Just hours after they were due home at 6pm, reports revealed the men had been discovered on a dirt road.
Cops quickly launched a double-murder probe into the case.
Inside Malmo’s crime-riddled underworld
PARTS of Sweden have become riddled with gang activity, plagued by executions, bomb attacks and child soldiers rampaging the streets.
Innocent bystanders have been gunned down in recent years as a country that was once deemed peaceful and safe becomes a terrifying gangster paradise.
Sweden has grappled with gang violence for decades but its latest latest surge has been exceptional – fuelled by notorious druglords dubbed Kurdish Fox and The Greek.
Police have been placed on standby ready to prevent brutal murders and explosions – and the country’s leaders have even geared up to deploy the military.
Human lives and family homes have fallen victim to the ongoing gang warfare, as the country chillingly reaches the highest level of children prosecuted for murder since 2019.
Much of the violence is concentrated in large cities like Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Uppsala.
Malmö has even been dubbed one of the worst cities in Northern Europe for gang crime in a tourism review.
Manne Gerell, Swedish criminologist and senior lecturer at Malmö university, previously told the Financial Times that shootings and bombings in the city are rife.
He said: “It almost appears random — it can happen to anybody, anywhere. It makes it more similar to terrorism.”
One gang member told public broadcaster SVT “If my family is in danger, everyone’s family is in danger,” as cops face a least of at least 150 homes that could be the target of shootings or bombings.
