US EditionSweden Charges Four over Killing of Hip Hop Star C.Gambino
- A trial has begun involving four individuals accused in connection with the June 2024 fatal shooting of 26-year-old rapper C.Gambino in a parking garage in Gothenburg.
- The killing followed ongoing gang conflicts in Sweden, with prosecutors citing a multi-year dispute between two networks as context.
- Two individuals are facing charges related to murder and aggravated weapons offenses, while two others are accused of aggravated protection of a criminal; one of these also has additional charges linked to assisting in the murder.
- Prosecutor Shahrzad Rahimi described the act as "both ruthless and premeditated" and said there is no direct proof that C.Gambino belonged to the criminal network involved.
- The case highlights Sweden's struggle with surging gang violence, marked by weekly shootings and bombings across the country in recent years.
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The indictment for the murder of rapper C. Gambino is typical of the time. The fact that circumstantial evidence is piled on top of each other prevents the prosecutor from feeling a certain uncertainty.
Tomorrow it will be exactly one year since the artist who went by the name C Gambino was shot dead in Gothenburg.
Four men in their 20s are charged with involvement in the murder of rapper C. Gambino last summer. “The act is both reckless and premeditated,” said District Attorney Shahrzad Rahimi in a press release.
Four men in their thirties have now been charged in Sweden for the murder of local rapper C.Gambinos, who was shot dead in a parking garage near his childhood home in Gothenburg exactly one year ago, on June 4th last summer.
Sweden charges four over hip hop star killing
Swedish prosecutors on Tuesday charged four people over the 2024 killing of a rapper who had been named the country’s hip hop artist of the year the month before his death. Masked 26-year-old rapper C.Gambino — whose real name was Karar Ramadan, and not to be confused with American rapper Childish Gambino — was the victim of a shooting in June 2024. The Swedish Prosecution Authority said two men were being charged with “murder or aiding and abet…
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