Overview

• Festival organizers called off Yasin’s May 30 performance in Umea after police received intelligence of a potential assassination plot
• Swedish police arrested two young men in connection with the alleged scheme targeting the rapper at Brännbollsyran
• The festival proceeded without Yasin as organizers emphasized that the safety of attendees and staff was paramount
• The cancelled show would have marked Yasin’s first live concert in Sweden in nine years following last year’s Stockholm cancellation for security reasons
• Yasin is one of Sweden’s most streamed rappers and served a 10-month sentence in 2021 for his role in the kidnapping of a rival artist