KARIN is the spouse of the fictional character Rami within the Helicopter Heist, a dramatisation of the real-life Västberga helicopter theft.

She is performed by Johanna Hedberg and, like many of the characters within the Netflix present, she is predicated on an actual individual related to the heist.

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Actual-life girl

Karin is predicated on the spouse of Shirwan Safa Kadhum, one of many robbers who broke right into a money depot in Southern Stockholm.

Kadhum was deeply in debt on the time and was unable to make ends meet together with his wage, which he earned as a trainee chef.

The actual-life Karin was pregnant on the time too, creating a further strain.

Then, certainly one of Karin’s collectors prompt that he ought to participate in a scheme which might change his life eternally and land him in jail.

Karin’s husband’s crime

On September 23, 2009, Kadhum stole a helicopter alongside his co-conspirators and landed on the roof of a G4S money service constructing in Västberga.

They broke by way of a window utilizing sledgehammers and busted open the compound’s safety doorways utilizing small bombs. 

After fleeing with an amount of cash equal to £3.9million as we speak, they efficiently vanished. 

Bombs planted on the police helicopter base made it extraordinarily troublesome for the authorities to pursue the robbers. 

Finally, although, the scheme collapsed and the police closed in on the thieves.

The group’s pilot, Alexander Erikkson (or Axel in The Helicopter Heist), was arrested within the Canary Islands. 

The heist’s organiser, Charbel Charro (Michel in The Helicopter Heist), was arrested at a routine site visitors cease. 

Kadhum was arrested too, shortly after fleeing to the within the Dominican Republic. 

He claimed that he had fled to the nation as a result of he did not need the police to seek for him at residence, which may disturb his pregant spouse.

In court docket, Kadhum was the one member of the gang to plead responsible to his crime.

He was handed an eight-year jail sentence for his crime and ultimately was launched from jail years later.

Kadhum has maintained an especially low profile after leaving jail.

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The Helicopter Heist

Kadhum’s crime is dramatised in The Helicopter Heist, the place he’s named Rami.

Within the Netflix present, Karin and Rami are married though they weren’t in actual life. 

Karin pleads together with her husband to not undergo together with his crime however she finally fails and Rami is put behind bars. 

The Helicopter Heist is out there to stream on Netflix from November 20, 2024.