Gothenburg pub shooting
The shootings at the pub Vår Krog & Bar in Gothenburg happened on 18 March 2015. Two unidentified gunmen entered a pub in Gothenburg, Sweden and began firing indiscriminately at people inside the restaurant. The pub, Vår Krog & Bar, is located in the Biskopsgården neighbourhood of Gothenburg on Hisingen, an area that has witnessed gang violence. The shootings are one of the rare times in which an innocent bystander has been killed in criminal rival gang violence in Sweden. The shooters were part of a gang from North Biskopsgården out for revenge.
| Gothenburg pub shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Date | 18 March 2015 22:00 (CET) |
| Target | Rival gang members (south Biskopsgården) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, gang shooting |
| Weapons | AKM rifles |
| Deaths | 2 |
| Injured | 8-15 |
| Perpetrators | Adam Abdulahi Ahmed Warsame Jonis Adan Onur Corap Josef Hällgren Abdulrahman |
A year after the event, the Göteborgs-Posten newspaper described the shootings as "one of the most unprecedented crimes of 2015." Other newspapers characterized it as part of "a wave of high-profile attacks in Sweden in 2015", and part of "a surge in violent conflict between rival criminal gangs."
In 2010, Biskopsgården was the Gothenburg district which had the highest rate of gang violence. In 2012, a territorial crime gang in the area split into two factions. The bar shooting was meant to destroy one of the rival factions.