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Rawa Majid (born July 12, 1986), known as the Kurdish Fox (Template:Lang-sv), is a Swedish criminal, raised in Uppsala, but since 2018 resident in Turkey. He is suspected of being the main leader of the Swedish criminal organisation Foxtrot, which is linked to numerous shootings and bombings in Sweden, especially in the Stockholm and Uppsala regions, often carried out by children. The victims have been children, relatives to rival criminals and to former friends of Majid, as well as unintended victims.[1][2] He is in conflict with several other criminal gangs and former Foxtrot members at the same time.[3] He is internationally wanted for serious drug offenses and preparation for murder since August 2020,[4][5][6] and has been named as one of Sweden's most wanted criminals.[1]

Biography

Majid's parents are from Iraqi Kurdistan, but he was born in Iran, (where he is a citizen), when they were fleeing Iraq on the way to Sweden during the Iran-Iraq war. The family settled in Uppsala in Sweden when he was one month old.[1][7][8]

Relocation to Turkey

After Majid served a long prison sentence his cousin was murdered, causing him to experience an escalating threat. Because of the threat, he was allowed by Swedish authorities to leave Sweden in the summer of 2018, despite being under surveillance and on probation, and has since resided in Turkey.[9][10] He purchased Turkish citizenship in exchange for investments in 2020 through the Turkish citizenship by investment program. Hence, Turkey refuses to capture and extradite him.[11][12][9] Swedish police shared intelligence about an operation to capture Majid with Turkish police, at highest-level, but the intelligence was leaked to members of the Foxtrot criminal network in 2022, according to Swedish police.[13] In 2023, the Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden threatened to suspend Sweden's financial aid to Turkey if Majid is not extradited, but later retracted the statement.[14]

Crimes committed by Majid and/or the Foxtrot network

Majid has previously been sentenced to eight years in prison for serious drug offenses and assault on two separate occasions. In the criminal register, he appears for the first time as a 19-year-old, and he has been convicted of, among other things, burglary and cigarette smuggling.[1][4]

Rawa Majid was previously[3] in conflict with the rival Vårby criminal network. On September 9, 2020, a 25-year-old man was shot and killed in the city of Uppsala in what is believed to have been a gang-related attack. The victim is thought to be a member of the Vårby network, and the shooting is believed to have been carried out by members of the Foxtrot network.[4]

The Bandidos is another of the criminal networks that Majid is in conflict with. A 33-year-old man was shot dead on March 4, 2022 just outside Bandido premises. He had probably been mistaken for a Bandido member. Several members of the Foxtrot network have been charged with the murder. Majid is believed to have planned the assassination, but has not gone to trial for the murder because he is absconding in Turkey.[1] Voice recordings show that two weeks later, Rawa Majid and an 18-year-old man planned to carry out another murder against the leader of the Bandidos, but the act was interrupted when they were discovered by police detectives. Rawa Majid is in custody in his absence on suspicion of preparation for murder.[15] On September 6, 2023, he is believed to have tasked a 17-year-old with blowing up the Bandido premises.[3]

Majid is in an escalating conflict with the Dalen gang since December 2022,[3] and with its leader Mikael Tenezos, also called The Greek. It started when a 21-year-old switched sides from the Dalen network to the Foxtrot network, and hired teenagers to shoot people from the Dalen network and their relatives in order to forcibly take over the drug market in the city of Sundsvall from them.[16][17] It has been reported that several acts of violence against the Dalen Network, also in Stockholm, and their allies have been carried out by people believed to have been hired by the Foxtrot Network and Rawa Majid. The executioners are thought to have been linked to Majid and Foxtrot's allies the Bridge Network or the Zero Network.[18][19]

An internal conflict within the Foxtrot network has arisen between Rawa Majid and a phalanx around his former right-hand man Ismail Abdo, who also is living in Turkey. This has led to a spiral of violence in Sweden and Turkey.[20] Thus, Rawa Majid is believed to be in a threefront war at least since 2023.[3] On September 2, 2023, Abdo's mother, a woman in her 60s, was shot and killed in the Gränby area of Uppsala, likely as a revenge for a shooting against Majid and his allies in Turkey. Two teenage boys have been detained on suspicion of having carried out the murder.[21][22][23]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Mapping: Rawa Majid is the "Kurdish Fox"". www.tv4.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-07-06.
  2. ^ ""Kurdyjski Lis": Kim jest Rawa Majida, król szwedzkiego podziemia - Skandynawiainfo" (in Polish). 2023-09-16. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Rawa Majid's merciless threefront war". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 2023-09-20.
  4. ^ a b c "Rawa Majid and the Foxtrot Network". krimfup.se (Preliminary criminal reports online) (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  5. ^ "Rawa Majid, 36 years old". hitta.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  6. ^ Britts, Malvina (2023-09-13). "Mini-documentary: How Rawa Majid became the "Kurdish fox"". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  7. ^ "On Turkey, Sweden balances NATO aspirations against fighting crime at home". POLITICO. 2023-04-11. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  8. ^ "PrimeCrime: Rawa Majid's mother tells about how the family came to Sweden" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  9. ^ a b Semonsen, Robert (2023-04-12). "Turkey Refuses To Extradite Drug Lord to NATO-Seeking Sweden". europeanconservative.com. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  10. ^ "The prison authorities let the designated gang leader "Kurdish fox" leave Sweden" (in Swedish). 2023-03-24.
  11. ^ "Gangsters Have a New Way of Avoiding Capture: Becoming Turkish". VICE World News. 2023-04-17. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
  12. ^ "On Turkey, Sweden balances NATO aspirations against fighting ..." POLITICO. 2023-04-11. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
  13. ^ English, Duvar (2023-09-15). "High-level intelligence shared with Turkey leaked to criminals, Swedish press says". duvarenglish.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-09-17.
  14. ^ "Sweden warns Turkey - threatens with strong action". Marcus Oscarsson (in Swedish). 2023-09-16. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
  15. ^ "Hear the threat of the Kurdish fox Rawa Majid – sending voice messages". www.tv4.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  16. ^ "How Sundsvall ended up in the middle of the gang leaders' war". Sundsvalls Tidning (in Swedish). 2023-09-15.
  17. ^ "MSN". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  18. ^ "The gang leaders at the center of the violent conflict". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). 2023-01-20. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  19. ^ "Double hunt for "The Greek" – wanted after the violent act". www.aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). 2023-05-03. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  20. ^ Erik Taubert, Lars; Alshawish, Kovan (2023-09-19). "Majid and Abdo at the center of bloody the gang conflict". SVT News (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  21. ^ "The Foxtrot network hit by new murder". Brott iFokus (crime in focus) (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  22. ^ "Dead woman was mother of leader in Kurdish fox grouping". Omni. 2023-09-07.
  23. ^ Alström, Vivvi (2023-09-08). "The murder of the mother was revenge for a shooting in Istanbul". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-09-26.
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