Sweden: murder of rapper C. Gambino: four convictions

Three men in his twenties were sentenced on Wednesday, one of which is perpetuated, for complicity in murder of the Swedish rapper C. Gambino, shot in Gothenburg in June 2024. A fourth received a lighter penalty.

The rapper, whose real name is Karar Ramadan, was killed at the age of 26 in a parking lot in the second city of Sweden, the evening of June 4, 2024. The car used by crime authors was then burned and completely destroyed.

The Göteborg court said that the elements of the investigation did not make it possible to establish that two of these men, who were prosecuted for murder, were those who had opened fire on the victim.

“The shooting had the character of a real execution and caused great sufferings to the victim,” said the president of the Göteborg court, Anne Rapp, in a statement.

“In addition, crime is part of a conflict between criminal networks and has been committed with the use of a firearm in a public place, which constitutes a particularly aggravating circumstance,” she said.

The investigation did not show that the rapper himself was active in a network, but those around him would be linked to these networks, said the court.

One of the four men, 22, was sentenced to life for complicity in murder. He participated in the planning and preparation of this homicide, in particular by providing the car used on the evening of June 4, 2024.

A 20 -year -old man, convicted of both a complicity in murder and aggravated protection of a criminal, was sentenced to 15 years and 6 months in prison. The third man, aged 21, was sentenced for complicity to 12 years and 6 months in prison, and the fourth, 19 years, to 10 months in prison.

C. Gambino was appointed hip-hop artist of the year during the grammis (local equivalent of the Grammy Awards) of the Swedish disc industry in 2024 and its songs still have several hundred thousands of listeners each month on Spotify.

Another award -winning Swedish rapper was also killed in a conflict between gangs in October 2021.

The Scandinavian country is struggling to contain the rise in the violence of criminal networks in recent years, shootings and attacks on the artisanal explosive device occurring regularly throughout the country.