Four teens convicted in Sweden over shooting attack on Israeli defense firm Elbit

By AFP 28 April 2025, 4:15 pm Edit

Israeli defense technology company Elbit Systems' booth at the Eurosatory trade fair, in Villepinte, a northern suburb of Paris, June 13, 2022. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

A Swedish court sentences four teenagers to prison for their involvement in a shooting that targeted an Israeli military technology firm last year.

A 13-year-old boy opened fire on the entrance to an office of Elbit Systems in the city of Gothenburg in southwestern Sweden on October 10, 2024. He was arrested shortly after but was not charged since he was below Sweden’s age of criminal responsibility of 15.

No one was injured in the shooting.

However, the Gothenburg district court sentences four others today for their roles in recruiting the young boy, supplying the gun and organizing the shooting.

One 19-year-old was handed a five-year prison sentence for “involving a minor in a crime,” as well as aiding a weapons offense and aiding an unlawful threat. Another 19-year-old was also given a five-year sentence, and a third was given four years and 11 months.

A 15-year-old boy was sentenced to a year and eight months of juvenile detention.

According to the prosecution, the identity of the mastermind of the shooting is still unknown, the court says in its ruling.