Scandinavia’s answer to Pablo Escobar orchestrates much of the growing violence from Turkey
STOCKHOLM—One evening in early March, Swedish police asked the country’s version of “America’s Most Wanted” to broadcast photos of two young men wanted for a shooting on a rival drug gang in Uppsala, north of Stockholm.
Three hours later, unknown gunmen knocked on the door of Serdar Sarihan, the father of one of the suspects. They shot him dead while his wife and their other children were upstairs.
The killing, which Swedish authorities say they believe was a revenge shooting, opened a new chapter of brutality in a wave of gang violence that has turned Sweden, usually known as a peaceful welfare state, into a gun-homicide hot spot in Europe.
