When a car drove into the Bøgetorvet in Vollsmose 20. February in the year at 16.10, opened fire on the car, where a 30-year-old father sat behind the steering wheel with his four-year-old son in the passenger seat.
None of them were hit, but police believe that the shooting was part of an armed conflict between two rival familieklaner in Odense.
Thursday starts the trial of five young people, two 20-year-old, two 24-year-olds and a 22-year-old who is accused of the shooting. They belong to the one clan, who supposedly called ’Faction A’, while the 30-year-old father belongs to the rival family.
the Police have given up trying to prove that there was an attempted murder, but has indicted the five for possession of firearms, threats to life, and to have exposed the father and son’s lives to an imminent danger. The defendants refuse to commit.
the Case is set for a jury trial, where specialanklager Klaus Lauridsen will decommission the assertion of a penalty of at least four years in prison.
the Penalty of the five defendants can be doubled, because the shooting happened in a ’sharpened strafzone’. 1. February introduced the Funen police as the first police district ’sharpened strafzone’ in Vollsmose after several violent clashes and shootings between the two groups. Both the 24. and 29. January there were shootings, connected to the conflict, where no one was hit.
After the criminal code section 81 c can the penalty for a number of crimes will be doubled, if committed within a ’sharpened strafzone’.
According to the indictment against the five, it was the one 20-year-old, who fired the shots, but all five were, according to the indictment responsible for the shooting. The five are also accused of having had a greater ammunitionslager in a basement room in Odense. 22. march police found 327 sharp nine mm cartridges and nine sharp caliber 7.65.
The two 24-year-old defendants is required, demonstrated by Denmark.
the Conflict between the two familieklaner in Odense goes back several years. The one group has its roots in the now-disbanded gang of Black Army, that imposed itself in 2017, and the group had to hangout on a vandpibecafé in Odense. The police have lifted the sharpened strafzone again, because it is estimated that the conflict has calmed down.
The 30-year-old father, who was shot at on Bøgetorvet, is earlier in the year been sentenced to three months suspended prison sentence for having bought 1,7 kilos of skunk for resale.
the Court in Odense has allocated eight days for the trial, which, among other things presented a number of technical evidence and video surveillance from Bøgetorvet. The verdict is expected 18. december.
