Prison terms after Stockholm grenade storage and extortion case
SVT reports that Södertörn District Court sentenced two men to four and six years in prison on 29 October in the Fruängen case. The investigation concerned 56 hand grenades and extortion that prosecutors link to Foxtrot.
The 27-year-old who stored the grenades received four years for an exceptionally serious explosives offence. He had alerted police himself. According to the judgment cited by SVT, his assistance to investigators helped reduce the sentence, alongside the lasting threat to him and his close family. His information also led to grenade discoveries elsewhere in Sweden.
The other man received six years for attempted aggravated extortion and aiding an explosives offence, according to the same report. Prosecutor Sara Stolper had sought nine years. In the case against the 27-year-old, both prosecution and defence supported a reduction for his cooperation.
When charges were filed on 6 October, SVT and Sveriges Radio reported that both men denied the offences, although the man who stored the grenades accepted the sequence of events. Investigators said 56 grenades arrived on 19 February and four were passed on five days later. Police found the remaining 52 in an apartment building’s basement storeroom on 2 March. Stolper said then that she considered them Foxtrot’s grenades, but no specific planned attack had been established.
