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The confirmed death toll has risen to over 17,000 dead following the earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria, AFP reports.

During Thursday evening there is a risk of gusts of up to 25 meters per second in northern Götaland and southern Svealand.

SMHI has issued a yellow warning and announces that fallen trees can limit access and that disturbances can occur in the electricity and telecommunications network.

The decision to reject the application for the Koran burning outside the Turkish embassy has no support in the law, says Henrik Wenander professor of public law to TT.

– I can’t see that the police’s decision has any support in the law, says Henrik Wenander.

He believes that the law must be changed in case the police are to be able to deny the permit.

– You can think that this is a bad law in this situation and that it does not provide enough support for something that the police think is necessary. But in our system, we don’t have it so that the courts can develop the law very much, but it is up to the legislature to change the rules of procedure in such cases.

According to TT, the association that applied for the permit has announced that the decision will be appealed to the administrative court.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) does not rule out that Sweden will send fighter jets to Ukraine – but says that in such a case it would happen in the future, TT reports.

At the same time, Kristersson points out that Sweden is in a tense security situation with the application for membership in NATO.

– Everyone understands that it is quite a difficult balancing act. I am not ruling anything out, but right now that question is not relevant for the Swedish part, says Kristersson to TT.

Both Kristersson and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj are in Brussels to participate in an EU summit. There, Sweden and several other countries will have their own meeting with the Ukrainian president.

– I think we will have a very intensive discussion with Zelenskyj, says Kristersson.

A man is suspected of serious assault and attempted rape against a 20-year-old woman in Stockholm during the night of Thursday.

According to information to the police, the woman has fled from an apartment in southern Stockholm where the man allegedly tried to force the woman to have sex with him. When the woman rejected the man, he is said to have gone on the attack with an attachment.

The woman was able to alert the police herself, who arrested the man in the apartment.

The police are still hunting the two gun-armed men who freed a serious criminal at the Vrinnevis Hospital in Norrköping on Wednesday, the police say at a press conference on Thursday.

John Andåker is head of the investigation section in the police region east. He announces that the hospital is still an ongoing crime scene.

– We have no one detained at the moment. The criminal classifications of aggravated promotion of flight, aggravated weapons offense and aggravated threat to an official remain. We are investigating the incident with broad investigative measures to secure as much evidence as possible, he says and continues:

– The freedman is not suspected of anything at the moment, but the criminal classification can be changed.

The released person is not resident or active in Norrköping and is serving a prison sentence, the police announce.

The police cannot answer whether the men are wanted abroad.

– There is now extensive intelligence work that runs parallel to the preliminary investigation. We currently see it as an isolated incident, says Peter Wahlberg, local police area manager in Norrköping.

A woman was found dead in her home on Hisingen in Gothenburg on Monday. It was the woman’s colleagues who alerted the police when she had not turned up at the workplace.

At the residence, the police arrested a man who is suspected of having murdered the woman. On Thursday, the man was requested to be detained for the crime, reports say Gothenburg Post.

It is unclear how the man reacts to the suspicions of murder, the newspaper writes.

For the fifth time in nine months, the Riksbank raises Sweden’s key interest rate. This time by 0.5 percentage points to 3 percent.

The policy rate will likely be raised further in the spring.

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It was in March 2022 that a 7-year-old boy died after being crushed by a large rock while playing in an industrial area in the municipality of Oxelösund.

At the time, a preliminary investigation into causing the death of another was initiated as the industrial area belonged to the municipality.

However, the municipality had no active construction work in the area, hence there was neither fence nor warning signs at the site.

Therefore, the prosecutor closes the preliminary investigation and believes that no crime has been committed.

– Their actions are not punishable. There is therefore no causal link between the boy’s death and the municipality’s actions, says assistant prosecutor Madeleine Bergdal.

The number of dead as a result of Monday’s strong earthquake in Turkey and Syria now exceeds 16,000, the AFP news agency reports.

At the same time, thousands of people are still feared to be under the rubble.

According to official figures, around 12,873 have died in Turkey and 3,162 in Syria.

Tobias Baudin, party secretary for the Social Democrats, spoke today in P1 Morgon regarding the situation in Botkyrka.

After the information about the connections between gang criminals and the Social Democrats in Botkyrka, Baudin wants to get to the bottom of what happened.

– We will look at the connections to gang crime and create an overall picture, says Baudin to P1 Morgon.

Baudin points out that it is not possible to be a criminal and a member of the party. Regarding the criminal past, however, Baudin believes that an individual assessment must be made.

– There, however, we have to make an assessment on a case-by-case basis, it looks different.