Sweden's Brutal Gang Civil War: The Kurdish Fox vs Strawberry

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In the last few years, Sweden’s gang wars have erupted into a brutal battlefield of shootings, bombings, and shifting allegiances even worse than the decade before. At the center is the Kurdish Fox, a shadowy figure who built his gang Foxtrot into the most formidable drug network in the entire country, all while not even living in Sweden. Using encrypted chats to recruit teenage gunmen, he sent Sweden's murder rate soaring. But when he took out his right hand man's own mother, it led to a civil war the likes of which Stockholm had never seen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.2	September 2023 in Uppsala, Sweden.
1:24.8	1 a.m. and a call goes out to the police.
1:29.6	There's been a shooting and a body has been found. When the cops show up, they find a 58-year-old woman has been shot and killed.
1:36.2	A pistol with a silencer undamused. And she's shot through an open window. It's clearly a hit.
1:43.1	Within days, two people are arrested for the murder, a 20-year-old and a 15-year-old, a shocking crime.
1:50.0	But what's even more shocking is who she is, the mother of Ismail Opto, also known as Strawberry, second in command of the Fox Trot Network. In recent years, they've become the most powerful gang in Sweden, international drug
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