The District Court of Eastern Uusimaa has been imprisoned as a rapper and suspected gang leader Milan Jaff charged with attempted murder.
The indictment is related to a preliminary investigation by the Central Criminal Police with the police departments of Eastern Uusimaa and Helsinki into a violent clash between two street gangs in Vantaa last August.
Police said both gangs fired shots during the incident, with one person seriously injured and another slightly injured. Three persons under the age of 20 have been arrested during the investigation and one has been officially arrested.
"The course of events has been clarified during the preliminary investigation and we know that the shots were exchanged. Police believe there was a dispute between the two gangs behind the shooting," NBI Detective Inspector, Masi Puolakkawho leads the investigation, wrote in a press release.
The pre-trial investigation is still ongoing, police added.
The trial begins with a planned nightclub attack
Separate trial of Jaffin, his fellow rapper Cavallini (Real name Mohamud Yahue Mahdi) and 13 other suspected gang members accused of the planned attack on Helsinki’s Kaivohuone nightclub began on Friday morning in the capital’s district court.
Yle has decided to publish the names of both Jaffi and Mahdi because they have waived their own right to privacy through material they have openly published on social media channels and because they are seen as influencers of social media and suspected of serious crimes.
According to the prosecutor, the planned attack was due to an ongoing dispute between a Helsinki street gang – the Kurdish Mafia or gang 47 and allegedly led by Jaff – and a rival L-City in Espoo.
The rapper associated with L-City was scheduled to perform at the Kaivohuone event, and the Helsinki-based gang planned to avenge the group on a series of violent clashes.
"Serious violence was planned here, at least with knives, and the use of firearms was also discussed at the planning stage. Several people would probably be injured," district prosecutor Perttu Kรถnรถnen told the court.
The event was canceled when rumors of the plan spread on social media. Police found members of the Helsinki gang in the vicinity of the nightclub Kaivohuone on the evening of the planned attack, and a search of their cars revealed knives.
The prosecutor is demanding at least eight years in prison for 22-year-old Jaff as he is considered gang leader, and at least seven years in prison for 26-year-old Mahdi. The length of the sentences is justified by the fact that the duo operate within an organized criminal gang, the prosecutor added.
Both defendants deny being members of the street gang and claim that videos posted on social media are related to their music careers.
Source: The Nordic Page