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Anton Fendert (MP), traffic regional councilor in the region, rages against the train drivers’ wild strike.

– This is an extortion attempt with Stockholm’s commuters as hostages, he tells Aftonbladet.

He says the action will not affect the decision to withdraw the train attendants.

– This is an extortion attempt that is completely futile, no one in politics will bend, he says.

How do you see the train drivers’ criticism and concerns where they believe that safety will deteriorate?

– I fully understand that you can feel a concern, but we have taken a lot of measures to make it go away, he says.

Read more here.

A traffic accident between a car and a truck has taken place in Kånna, the police report.

County road 582 is completely closed.

Police, emergency services and an ambulance are on their way to the scene.

At least two people are injured.

After the recent releases, the government gives the Prison Service the task of strengthening the security of prisoner transports.

Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) announces this in a comment to TT.

“It’s about preventing dismissals by making the right security assessments so that, among other things, armed guards through the Police Authority are used at the right times,” writes Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) in a comment.

Security at Sis homes must also be increased.

Access to mobile phones and computers must be “severely limited”, so that inmates cannot plan crimes and escapes.

Read more here.

A 13-year-old girl disappeared without a trace in the village of Kirkerup in Denmark. On Sunday afternoon, the police announced that the girl had been found.

A 32-year-old man was arrested on Sunday

He is suspected of having exposed the girl to a sexual crime, reports Ekstra Bladet.

According to the prosecutor, it must have happened through threats of violence.

According to the charges, the man allegedly detained the girl and then took her to an address in Sorø and then to his address in Korsør.

There, he allegedly exposed the girl to a sexual crime.

He is currently being heard in court.

The man partially admits to the crime, his lawyer states.

The girl has not yet been questioned.

The detention hearing now takes place behind closed doors, according to Ekstra Bladet.

SAS postpones the second half of a billion dollar loan of SEK 4.7 billion, reports Danish Finance.

According to SAS, the money from the capital fund Apollo Global Management is not needed right now, as the company’s liquidity has developed better than expected.

The announcement has been welcomed by investors – the stock surged 27 percent after the market opened.

However, it is not excluded that they may be needed later.

“Depending on the continued development of SAS’s liquidity position, SAS may continue discussions with Apollo Global Management regarding access to the second part of the DIP loan at a later stage in the Chapter 11 process,” the airline writes.

Read more here.

The Swedish Work Environment Authority demands a fine of half a million kroner from Kronfågel after staff were infected by campylobacter, reports Swedens radio.

The bacteria, which can cause stomach problems and fever, spread at a slaughterhouse in Valla in 2020.

Kronfågel needs to investigate the work environment before the summer, which the Court of Appeal has also confirmed.

Chief prosecutor Krister Peterson became well known to the Swedish people when he took over the Palme investigation.

And also heavily criticized for the way he put it down.

He is now retiring, the Public Prosecutor’s Office announces.

– I have always made sure to try to do the best I can, and it has gone reasonably well, so I have to be satisfied with that, says Peterson.

IN the press release interview he is asked if anything surprised him about the material.

– Yes. You can say that quite a few people were involved, and many documents and tips had been registered. But concrete investigative measures were something I lacked. People who should be of interest should have been interrogated “at the bottom”, but that had not happened. It surprised me that it looked like that.

The conclusion when the murder investigation was dropped was that Stig Engström, the so-called Skandian man, “could not be got around”.

The judicial ombudsman later criticized the chief prosecutor because the deceased Stig Engström was portrayed as guilty of the murder of Olof Palme, without the issue of guilt being determined by a court.

A 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with 13-year-old Filippa being found alive in the Danish Korsør yesterday.

Today at eleven o’clock he will be questioned in court.

The 13-year-old was missing for a day before she was found by the police. According to information in the Danish Berglinske Tidene, she was found in a villa where the 32-year-old man was also arrested.

Read more here.

The spring bill will be submitted on Monday at 8 a.m. to the Riksdag and the spring amendment budget for 2023.

Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson (M) presents the spring budget at a press conference at 08:30.

The budget is presented during a difficult economic time. The Economic Institute has, among other things, called for large tax cuts to be avoided.

The government expects the recession to last until the year 2025, reports Ekot.

Swedish GDP is estimated to fall by 1.0 percent this year. Next year, it is believed to recover by 1.2 percent.

At the same time, unemployment is expected to rise. From 7.5 percent last year to 7.9 percent this year.

The death toll in Sudan is rising and hospitals are beginning to lack essential equipment, warns the World Health Organization, WHO, writes The Guardian.

The violence between the military and the militia RSF continues despite calls, from among others the UN, for an immediate end to the fighting.

There are major disruptions in commuter train traffic as a result of staff shortages, SL announces on its website on Monday morning.

“Protest actions may affect commuter train traffic on Monday. Changes may take place at short notice. Stay updated before your trip here at sl.se or in the SL app,” writes SL.

The reason for the disturbances is the train drivers’ strike that began at 03:00 on Monday.

The strike is expected to last for three days until April 19 at 23:59.

Buses will increase traffic on Monday in several places between 06:15-09:15 and between 15:00-19:30.

There is a fire outside in the countryside in Tingsryd, the police report. Emergency services and an ambulance are on the scene due to an extensive fire.

Two people are injured.

The risk of spread is assessed as high – but no homes are currently threatened by the fire.

The World Health Organization says at least 83 people have died and more than 1,100 people have been injured in fighting between the military and the paramilitary RSF in Sudan, reports CNN.

The Guardian writes that at least 56 civilians have been killed in the capital Khartoum since the armed conflict began on Saturday.

Over 150 businesses have been closed in Iran because they did not respect the hijab law, writes TT.

It concerns 137 stores and 18 restaurants that did not take action after being warned by the police.

The law requires women to wear a veil that covers their hair.

When 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being detained by morality police for wearing her veil incorrectly, large protests against the hijab law erupted in Iran.