In August 2020, a 12-year-old Swedish girl named Adriana was shot to death at a gas station in the municipality of Botkyrka. She was the inadvertent victim of a gang attack against a rival gang. Now, three members of an immigrant gang, including the leader, Maykill Yokhanna, have been sentenced to life in prison. Aftonbladet identifies the other two men as Hassan Mohammad (32) and Benjamin Mahdi (24). A fourth suspect, 25-year-old Serkan Demirkiran, is believed to have fled to Turkey.
*Note: In the video, there is an error on the part of SVT as to the date of the verdict. Both the voice in the video and the Swedish subtitles give the date as April 28, 2023. This posting is dated April 26, 2023, but the English subtitles follow what is in the audio and Swedish subtitles.
The below article from SvT (Swedish State TV) is translated by Fousesquawk. One of the two videos in the article is also translated by Fousesquawk. Hat tip to Vlad Tepes and Gates of Vienna for assistance in subtitling.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/i-dag-faller-domen-efter-mordet-pa-adriana
Caption: SVT broadcasts the verdict directly: Gang leader Maykill Yokhanna is one of three men sentenced for the murder of 12-year-old Adriana. Photo: Police investigation/TT.
Three men were sentenced to life in prison for murder of 12- year-old Adriana
Updated today 11;28. Published yesterday 20:30
Three men are sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 12-year-old Adriana, who was shot to death at a gas station in Botkyrka in the summer of 2020. Södertörn district court announced it.
One of the convicted men is the 31-year-old gang leader, Maykill Yokhanna, who also has links to Västerås.
The three convicted men had planned to shoot several persons from a rival criminal gang, but instead, Adriana was hit with two shots and died. Three weapons, including one automatic weapon, were used in the shooting.
The evidence in the case consisted of a large number of different circumstances, which each pointed to there being three men who shot Adriana. There were connections to the weapons and the car used, as well as motive and chats. In addition, the men's so-called sky telephones, (encrypted phones) were connected (to the crime). The men's subsequent actions are also important for the verdict since they made sure the weapons and car were gotten rid of.
"This was a matter of an indiscriminate firing of automatic weapons in a location where several people were present, and one of them died. The punishment, therefore, cannot be anything other than life in prison," says the president of the court, Chief Counselor Tore Gissen, in a press release.
Caption: The shooting death of Adriana in Borkyrka-in 60 seconds. Photo: SVT/Police
Was shot at in Kungens Kurva 2020
Maykill Yokhanna is identified as the leader of a criminal network in south Stockholm. He was earlier convicted for an aggravated weapons offense, among others.
In January 2020, he was shot at as he sat in a car together with his wife and a friend in Kungens Kurva (King's Curve). The friend died and Maykill Yokhanna's wife was wounded. The gang leader was the one the shooter was actually after.
The other two men who are now sentenced to life did not have the same power position and criminal records as the gang leader.
The three men are convicted of murder and seven counts of attempted murder, among other things.
Defense: Will appeal
The verdict will be appealed to the appeals court, says Maykill Yokhanna's defense council, Hampus Wikerstål. The prosecutor did not prove that Yokhanna was at the scene of the crime, and the verdict is based on a weak chain of circumstances, the lawyer says.
"I am greatly surprised there was a conviction and we are going to appeal."
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