NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS
On Friday morning, Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmar holds a press conference on the modernization of the criminal limitation legislation.
– We want significantly fewer crimes to be statute-barred in the future, says the Minister of Justice.
He explains that the proposals have several purposes.
– We want to ensure that it reflects a serious view of crime, says Strömmer.
Among other things, the Government proposes that the statute of limitations be abolished completely for all crimes that have a life sentence on the penalty scale.
This is to strengthen the position of crime victims and to avoid criminals staying away, for example abroad, during the statute of limitations.
According to the current regulations, the statute of limitations also applies to crimes with life imprisonment.
THREE NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS
At the beginning of October, it was discovered that a 24-year-old man employed at a preschool in the municipality of Flen had molested a child. Today charges are brought against the man who is suspected of aggravated rape of children.
Prosecutor Fredrik Beijar believes that the crime should be assessed as serious as it involves a small child.
– And because the suspect showed particular recklessness when he took advantage of his position as preschool staff, says the prosecutor in a press release.
Read more here.
Just before eight o’clock, an accident occurred at Aspö north of Strängnäs.
It is about a truck accident where the vehicle’s trailer ended up in the middle of the road, the police write on their website.
No one was injured in connection with the incident.
Police are on scene to direct traffic, which is currently at a standstill in both the southbound and northbound directions.
According to the Swedish Transport Agency, the accident has a very large impact on traffic.
– We are in the process of detaching the tow truck from the trailer so that we can open up a lane in the southbound direction and alternately let traffic pass. The trailer will take time to recover, says Henrik Dewoon Thorén at the rescue service.
The Swedish Chemicals Agency’s review of cosmetics revealed environmentally hazardous substances in 26 percent of the products, they write in a press release.
A total of 672 products were checked and 15 companies have been charged.
A group of banned PFAS substances was found mainly in eye and lip pencils, while the cyclic siloxanes D4 and D5 were found in hair conditioners and hair wrap masks.
During Friday morning, the emergency services were alerted that a tree had fallen over a car on route 55 in the southbound direction. The accident occurred between Simonstorp and Åby.
– The person who was traveling in the car is fine and the car has been moved to the side of the road, says Christian Lind, officer on duty at the rescue service.
The emergency services have received several calls about trees falling on the roads and cooperate during the day with the traffic authority and the municipality.
The police have received calls about children who went “trick or treat” in Västerås and received candy with screws in it.
The police write on their website that the incident is the second of a similar nature in a short time in Västerås.
The police are now urging parents and children to be extra vigilant when it comes to “trick or treating”.
There are no reports of children being injured by the screws.
The police are now investigating the matter as assault.
Several people have been injured in a shooting in western France, reports the news agency AFP.
According to the country’s interior minister, five people are seriously injured.
Two cars have collided in the Hammarby tunnel in southern Stockholm, according to the police. One of the drivers was taken to hospital by ambulance. The extent of the injury is unknown.
The accident causes a very large impact on the traffic on the road in the direction of Nacka, according to the Swedish Transport Administration.
Swedbank lowers the mortgage interest rate. Stock photography Photo: Christine Olsson
Swedbank lowers the interest rate on its floating mortgages by 0.25 percentage points. The list interest rate on loans with a three-month commitment period is now 4.99 percent.
SBAB has also lowered its variable interest rates ahead of the Riksbank’s interest rate announcement next week.
Both the market and the analyst corps expect a so-called double reduction from the Riksbank of 0.50 percentage points in November.
During the night, a man was arrested on suspicion of rape, the police write on their website.
The incident is said to have taken place inside a toilet at a bar in central Gothenburg.
The man, who is aged 25, will be questioned on Friday.
It can be really windy in large parts of Sweden during Friday, especially in parts of Götaland and Svealand and the mountains. Archive image. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
Fallen trees, stops in train traffic and canceled ferry departures. The windy weather causes problems in large parts of Sweden.
Saturday can also be windy according to SMHI, which has extended some of the yellow warnings previously issued.
During Friday, a yellow warning was issued in northern Götaland and parts of southern Svealand, which is valid until the afternoon. At the same time, a weak cold front passes to the south.
– Now that the cold front passage is passing, it’s blowing a bit more this afternoon. Then the wind subsides after that, says Kristin Hallberg, meteorologist at SMHI.
Canceled traffic
The harsh weather has led to a halt in train traffic between Uddevalla-Strömstad and Nässjö-Vetlanda. Train traffic is also suspended on the Linköping-Kalmar and Linköping-Västervik routes until 9 a.m. on Saturday, where bus Show more
Striking Boeing employees celebrated when the previous bid from the employer was voted down. Now a new offer has arrived. Archive image. Photo: Lindsey Wasson/AP/TT
The seven-week strike among factory workers at American Boeing may soon be over – if the union accepts the new offer.
According to the employer’s new offer, wages would be increased by 38 percent over four years – slightly higher than the previous offer of a total 35 percent wage increase over four years, which the employees rejected. Before that, they had also voted no to an earlier, even lower offer. According to the union, members will vote on the new bid on Monday.
A strong reason for giving the thumbs down to previous proposals is that the company refuses to reinstate a previous pension plan, which was scrapped 10 years ago, Boeing employees have told the AP.
Around 33,000 factory workers have been on strike since September 13. The strike has hit the already financially strained aircraft manufacturer hard, which is estimated to be losing upwards of a billion dollars a month.
A partially collapsed bridge in Ullensvang municipality in western Norway after storm Jakob. Photo: Roar Svåsand/NTB/TT
Several areas in southwestern Norway have been affected by heavy rain and flooding in connection with storm Jakob moving in on Thursday.
In Ullensvang municipality, a couple of hours east of Norway’s second largest city Bergen, the situation is described as dramatic by the municipality’s chairman. The central town of Odda, with around 5,000 inhabitants, has become completely isolated after being refused.
25 houses with 47 inhabitants have been evacuated in nearby Eitrheim.
A large number of roads in western Norway are closed and several bridges have collapsed due to the water pressure, in addition there have been minor landslides along several roads. In Voss, the municipality has sent out a flood warning to all residents of the village of Evanger.
There are no reports of anyone being injured in the storm.
Emergency services and police have been alerted to an address in central Gothenburg after a suspected explosion in an apartment building.
– We are on site with a larger resource and assist the police with a larger incident, says Christer Dyrfelt, alarm and line operator at the rescue service.
Read more here.
Kamala Harris was interrupted several times during her speech in Arizona.
Kamala Harris gave a speech during the Democratic campaign meeting in Phoenix.
Then she was interrupted several times by protests from people in the audience demonstrating against the war in Gaza.
In the end, Kamala chose to pause her speech and directly addressed the people who were trying to outvote her.
– Let’s talk about Gaza. We all want this war to end and all the hostages to be released, and I will work on that full-time when I am elected president, she said, the Washington Post reports.
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