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Two men who participated in the Easter riots in Örebro have had their sentences reduced in the Supreme Court, something that raises questions for the police.

“Of course, we can’t help but ask ourselves what we as police officers will actually have to endure in order to apply the higher part of the penalty scale,” says commanding officer Emelie Bodegrim in a statement on the police’s website.

The men were convicted of serious blue light sabotage in the Court of Appeal after the events in Sveaparken. But then their sentences were reduced from about five years to three years and three years and three months respectively.

“Our employees who were in Sveaparken during the riot had to experience something that closely resembled a war zone while they were defending our democracy. But the verdict gives us guidance in what will be most important for us going forward in the continued investigation,” says Emelie Bodegrim.

An American reaper drone has collided with a Russian Su-27 fighter jet over the Black Sea, Reuters reports.

According to the news agency, the Russian plane must have hit the propeller of the drone, causing it to crash into the Black Sea.

– Two Russian Su-27 fighter jets conducted an unsafe and unprofessional interception of an unmanned MQ-9 surveillance aircraft operating in international waters over the Black Sea, the US military writes in a press release.

The US calls the Russian action “reckless”.

“Our MQ-9 drone was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and struck by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and total loss of the drone,” said General James Hecker.

According to White House spokesman John Kirby, President Joe Biden has been briefed on the crash.

– Unsafe, unprofessional and reckless, says John Kirby.

NATO also states that it has informed its allies about the incident.

A nationwide strike among air traffic controllers is scheduled to take place in Greece on Thursday.

The strike is planned to last 24 hours.

All flights to and from Greece will therefore be canceled from 00.01 on the night of Thursday.

The reason for the strike is the train accident that took place on February 28, when 57 people died when a passenger train and a freight train collided near the city of Larissa in Greece.

The strike, called by the country’s largest private and public sector unions, is the latest in a series of protests against the conservative government and against a political system they say has repeatedly ignored calls from unions for safety measures, Greek media reported.

Johan Ingerö leaves his post as party secretary in the Christian Democrats after being reported for sexual harassment.

Now KD top Sara Skyttedal writes on Facebook about the police report.

“Eight years ago, a party colleague chose, against my will, to try to claim the right to my body. All these years I have been silent. Tried to repress what happened,” she writes.

“The process will have its course legally and I will unfortunately be limited in how I can comment on this going forward”.

The former Member of Parliament Barbro Westerholm (L) is dead, writes the newspaper Senioren.

She lived to be 89 years old.

Barbro Westerholm sat in the Riksdag between 1988–1999 and 2006–2022.

Read more here.

Johan Ingerö leaves his position as party secretary in the Christian Democrats.

On Facebook, he writes that a police report has been made against him for molestation.

“Friends, since a week I am in an extremely unpleasant situation”, he writes and continues:

“I have learned that a close party colleague has recently filed a police report against me, regarding some form of molestation which she believes must have happened nine years ago. I have not been able to see the notification, but based on the little information I have received, I still know which occasion is meant. And that what is alleged is not true”.

A man in his 30s has been taken to hospital after the man was involved in an accident at his workplace in Malmö.

According to information given to the police, the man must have overturned a machine and injured himself.

The police are investigating the incident as a suspected workplace accident.

Two girls, twelve and 13 years old, have now confessed to the murder of a twelve-year-old girl in western Germany this weekend, TT reports.

The girl disappeared on her way home from a friend. The following day, she was found dead with severe knife wounds in a wooded area.

According to local police, the victim and the perpetrators knew each other. The two girls who confessed to the murder are too young to stand trial.

The case has shocked Germany.

– This is of course a very unusual and shocking event, even for us, prosecutor Mario Mannweiler told reporters in Koblenz.

Now nearly 200 people have died in Malawi since Cyclone Freddy swept across the country, the BBC reports.

The death toll has risen from 99 to 190, 584 injured and tens of people reported missing.

The rainfall has also led to heavy flooding.

“We have rivers overflowing, we have people being washed away, we have buildings collapsing,” police spokesman Peter Kalaya told the BBC.

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a speech at an aircraft factory in Buryatia, east of Moscow. He said that what is at stake in Ukraine is Russia’s existence as a state, Reuters reports.

– For us, this is not a geopolitical mission, it is about the survival of the Russian state and creating conditions for the future development of the country and our children, he said.

Putin accuses the West of using Ukraine as a tool to wage war on Russia and inflict a “strategic defeat” on it.

Norway is investing in its military security by purchasing six American-made Seahawk helicopters.

“Norway is buying a total of six helicopters to be delivered during the period 2025 to 2027,” the Ministry of Defense writes in a press release.

The purchase will cost around NOK 12 billion.