'Foxtrot enforcer' charged with orchestrating grenade attack on restaurant
An alleged leading member of the Foxtrot criminal network has been charged with arranging for a 15-year-old to carry out a grenade attack on a sushi restaurant in Norway. Ali Namdar, 21, was recently arrested in Morocco at the request of Swedish authorities after being placed on a list of Europe’s most-wanted suspects and is currently awaiting extradition. Mr Namdar, who goes by the alias Joker,…
Ali Namdar, 21, a member of the Foxtrot criminal network, has been charged with orchestrating a grenade attack on a sushi restaurant in Norway. The teenager who carried out the attack, now 16, pleaded guilty to the crime in court. According to prosecutors, Mr Namdar recruited the teenager through a Signal chat group and assured him that the grenade would not cause a significant explosion.
The attack took place on October 22, 2022, in Strommen, a town 20km east of Oslo. Mr Namdar, also known as Joker, was recently arrested in Morocco at the request of Swedish authorities and is currently awaiting extradition. He is wanted for 18 offences in Sweden, including attempted murders, and is accused of orchestrating a separate grenade attack, a shooting at a house, and an abduction. The prosecutor stated that Mr Namdar is the mastermind and the one who ordered the attack.
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