Michael Tenezos, a 27-year-old Greek national known to Swedish authorities as “Greken” (The Greek), has been arrested in Mexico following a Europol-led international operation.
Born in Stockholm to Greek immigrant parents from Pistiána, Arta, Tenezos once dreamed of becoming a professional figure skater before rising to become one of Sweden’s most dangerous criminals.
Authorities identify him as a senior member of the Dalen gang, a splinter faction of the notorious Foxtrot organisation led by Rawa Majid, the so-called “Kurdish Fox.”
The violent feud between the rival gangs has turned Stockholm into a war zone, with over 60 deaths in shootings and bombings within a single year.
His relatives in Arta expressed disbelief at his transformation. “No one could believe it. He was just a normal kid,” said Giorgos Tenezos, 72, a distant relative.
The arrest marks a significant development in Europol’s crackdown on transnational gang violence, which has increasingly drawn international attention to Sweden’s spiralling crime crisis.
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