M75 hand grenade
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Use by criminal gangs in England, Sweden and Belgium
A shipment of leftover grenades of this type (and the M-93) from the Yugoslav Wars was taken to Sweden and sold for as little as 20 kronor to organised criminals and street gangs, who have been using them in numerous attacks since 2008 (ongoing as of 2025).[2][3][4]
Others were used by criminal families in England, including an attack that killed two police officers in 2012.[5]
In 2018, two M75 hand grenades were used in Deurne, Antwerp. The attack is possibly linked to a drug war in Antwerp.[6]
In 2021, one M75 hand grenade was used in Pakrac, Croatia. Milorad Arsenić, a former member of Serbian paramilitary forces in CroatiaScript error: No such module "Unsubst". attacked three employees of Croatian power company HEP that came to disconnect his power for unpaid bills.[7][8]
In 2023, one M75 hand grenade was used in the ethnically-mixed 'Bosniak Neighborhood' in North Mitrovica, Kosovo. A car was damaged, in what minister of interior Xhelal Sveçla claimed to be an attack by criminal structures in reaction to the arrest of 3 ethnic Serbs in the town of Vushtrri, suspected of war crimes in the Kosovo War.[9]
The M75 was used during a gang war in Germany's Stuttgart region in 2023. During a funeral of a gang member at the cemetery of Altbach near Esslingen, a member of a rival gang threw one M75 at the mourners. The grenade bounced of a tree branch, throwing it off course, and exploded in a free area, still leaving 15 people injured.[10]
In 2024, an M75 hand grenade exploded at a party in Knin, Croatia, killing a 25-year-old man and injuring four others.[11]
References
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External links
- BR-M75 Hand Grenade at Military & Police Training
- The M75 at Balkan war history.com
- M75 and M93 at inert-ord.net
- BR-M75 at CAT-UXO
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