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A Swedish court has handed down prison terms to seven defendants belonging to a Somali drug gang known as the Death Patrol (Dödspatrullen) over the abduction of a 22-year-old woman and her two-year-old daughter, held for nearly four days in a rented cabin as leverage over an unpaid gang-linked drug debt.
As reported by Samnytt, the woman was abducted on the morning of April 17 in Strängnäs, on Sweden’s west coast, as she was strapping her daughter into a car seat. A car pulled up behind her, several men got out, and she was coerced into the vehicle. The kidnappers then drove her and the toddler more than 400 kilometers across the country to Gothenburg.
There, the woman was given 500 kronor (€45) to buy necessities inside a grocery store while the kidnappers held her daughter. Surveillance images later showed one of the men carrying the child around inside the shop. The victims were subsequently taken to a rented cabin in Kyrkeby outside Kungälv, where they were kept for nearly four days. During that time, the woman learned that her ex-boyfriend owed several million kronor to the migrant gang in relation to a lost drug shipment to Norway. She and her daughter were being used as leverage to force repayment.
Court reporting from Ekuriren back in October noted that at the time of the abduction, the ex-boyfriend had already travelled to Finland to begin serving a prison sentence. A photograph of the woman with tape over her mouth and someone holding her head was reportedly sent to him and other relatives, together with demands for payment. The gang members also discussed recording the woman being raped to increase pressure on the family to pay up on her ex-boyfriend’s behalf.
The child’s grandmother, back in Strängnäs, had already noticed her car parked outside her home with a door open and alerted the authorities. Investigators soon linked the disappearance to the ex-boyfriend and tracked the perpetrators to the Airbnb cabin near Kungälv.
Police located the cabin during Easter weekend. Surveillance began on the Sunday evening, and during the night into Monday, a tactical team entered the building and took several people into custody. The woman and her daughter were medically assessed after the operation and were described as physically unharmed, though in a state of shock.
The mother told investigators she cried through much of the second day, convinced she might not survive. One of the defendants, by contrast, later described the ordeal as a “road trip” — insisting that everyone “made tacos, walked outside and played cards,” and even suggesting that the victim agreed to have her mouth taped for a photograph. He denied kidnapping and maintained he was merely trying to reclaim money.
Professional footballer Exauce Bokunyungu, 22, was identified as the main perpetrator and received the longest sentence: six years and 11 months. Ali Ise, 23, and Benjamin Patay, 22, were each sentenced to five years and five months, while Diu Ngong, 20, who booked the cabin, received two years and eight months for aiding and abetting.
Three additional men — Aghyad Saad, Ahmad Sarjin, and Abrham Woldeghebriel, aged 21 to 25 — were also convicted for another kidnapping linked to the same investigation. They were given sentences ranging from three years and 11 months to four years and five months.
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