A man is wanted in custody after the explosion on Andra Långgatan

It was on Monday that the police, emergency services and ambulance were called to Andra Långgatan in Gothenburg after an explosion in a pub. Windows were smashed and the restaurant was filled with smoke. The national bomb protection was also called.

There are several interesting people

A man in his 20s was arrested and detained shortly afterwards, on suspicion of aggravated public dangerous destruction and aggravated breach of the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods. On Wednesday, the man was requested to be detained.

– He is probably a suspect, says prosecutor Mats Ihlbom.

What can you tell about the person?

– I don’t want to comment on it at the moment.

Could more people be suspected of involvement in the explosion?

– It is impossible to say, but there are several interesting people that we are looking into, says the prosecutor.

Denies crime

Arrest hearings are held at Torsag. The man denies any crime, his defender says.

– His attitude is that he denies the crime and disputes any involvement in what is alleged, says the man’s defender Suzanne El Khayat Ali.

Link to previous attacks

Last week there were two attacks on restaurants in Gothenburg. One in Kortedala and the other on Andra Långgatan in Gothenburg, where there was a family relationship that connects the two restaurants to each other.

As SVT Nyheter Väst previously reported, the same family relationship can be linked to the pub that was exposed to an explosion on Monday.

“Heard a strong explosion” – hear the witness Hannes Oscarsson tell about the explosion on Andra Långgatan in the clip below.

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