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Man arrested – suspected of planning murder with ricin and cyanide
German police have arrested a 32-year-old Iranian national in an anti-terror raid in Castrop-Rauxel, west of Dortmund.
The man is suspected of having acquired the extremely toxic substances ricin and cyanide and planned a crime with an Islamist motive, police and prosecutors say in a press release during the night towards Sunday.
Another man was arrested in the raid, which was carried out at midnight. Police officers in protective gear are now searching the 32-year-old’s home and have seized evidence to be analysed, writes Die Welt.
According to Image the police have been investigating the Iranian for several days following a tip from foreign intelligence about the risk of an imminent terrorist attack with a chemical bomb.
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At least 17 dead in traffic accident
At least 17 people died and 22 were injured in a traffic accident in southeast China’s Jiangxi province on Sunday.
The injured have been taken to hospital and the cause of the accident is being investigated by the authorities, according to the state television channel CCTV.
Traffic accidents are common in China where the lack of strict safety controls is great. In September, 27 people died when a bus heading to a quarantine center in Giuzhou Province overturned on the highway. (TT)
Crash in building after car chase
A car whose driver refused to stop for the police crashed during the ensuing chase just before midnight into a building in Midsommarkransen in southern Stockholm.
According to the police, the driver, a man in his 30s, did not need hospital treatment and is now suspected of gross negligence in traffic and gross illegal driving.
Woman dead after guard intervention
A woman died on Saturday in connection with the intervention of security guards in a shopping center in Espoo, Finland.
The police are investigating the course of events and possible criminal suspicions, writes Hufvudstadsbladet.
According to an eyewitness that Finnish media spoke to, the woman allegedly refused to obey the call to leave. Then she was knocked to the floor and held down by several guards.
Scooter has overturned: “Serious accident”
A scooter accident has occurred outside Sundsvall.
– The ambulance had already taken one person to hospital when we arrived at the scene. It was a scooter that allegedly got a cable and overturned. It must have been a serious accident, says Viktor Lundin, internal commander at the rescue service Medelpad.
One person was traveling on the scooter and has been taken to hospital. The police have also been alerted to the accident.
– We have a patrol that is on the scene right now and working on the case, says Anderas Schäufele, RLC commander at the police region North.
The police have started a preliminary investigation regarding serious drunken driving.
Ships lost cargo in the sea off Härnösand
A cargo ship has dropped sawn timber in the sea off Härnösand, reports The newspaper Ångermanland.
There is a gale warning in the bottom bay and on Saturday the ship ended up in the middle of the storm.
The Norwegian-owned ship Oslo Carrier 2 is 106 meters long and 18 meters wide. It was on its way from Bollstrabruk to Alexandria in Egypt.
When the ship ended up in the wind, the idea was that it would enter an emergency port in Sundsvall, but the plans were changed, the newspaper writes.
The ship passed Sundsvall and has now docked just south in Norrvikssand without being in distress.
No people have been injured. It is currently unclear how much timber has fallen into the sea.
One injured after fire in apartment
At 21:08 on Saturday evening, the emergency services, police and ambulance were called to an apartment in Kristianstad due to a fire in an apartment.
– There was a fire in a kitchen. We have been on site and extinguished the fire, says Thomas Nordin at the rescue service.
He states that a person who was in the apartment complex was taken care of by paramedics.
The extent of the damage is still unclear.
The president peed himself – journalists arrested
South Sudan President Salva Kiir, 71, attended an event in December and when the national anthem was played, he allegedly peed in his gray pants, reports Reuters.
The event was photographed and filmed but never televised. But the material has been spread on social media and now six journalists are accused of involvement.
“They are suspected of knowing how the videos of the president urinating on himself got out and were spread,” Patrick Oyet, president of the journalists’ union in South Sudan, told Reuters.
The government has repeatedly denied reports of the president’s failing health.
– This is similar to previous incidents where security personnel detain suspects whenever it suits them, says Muthoki Mumo, of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Fire in apartment – one injured
Emergency services, police and healthcare have been alerted to a burning apartment in Rågsved in Stockholm.
– A fire has started in the hall and kitchen. It is still burning and we are carrying out extinguishing work, says Hans Eriksson who is a command operator at the Rescue Service.
At the scene, an injured man was found who was taken to hospital by ambulance.
– It is unclear how the subject is doing.
The police have cordoned off an area around the fire-stricken house. But according to Hans Eriksson, there is no risk of the fire spreading in the house.
It is still unclear how the fire started.
At 21.30 the police announced that the fire had been extinguished.
Robbers caught in the subway
The police have arrested a suspected robber in the subway in Stockholm.
The man is in his 20s and is suspected of having robbed a man at Gärdet and he is said to have displayed a gun-like object. The police were later able to arrest the man on board a subway train and he was carrying stolen goods and a dummy gun.
The man also turned out to be a suspect and wanted for another robbery.
The author Ulla-Maria Andersson is dead
Photo: Sofia Nahringbauer/Aftonbladet/TT
Author Ulla-Maria Andersson has died after a long battle with cancer, aged 67.
She made her debut at the age of 58 with the autobiographical novel “You would have said it as it was.” After that, she wrote three more novels for Norstedt’s publisher, which comments on her early death:
“Ulla-Maria Andersson was open about her illness, the cancer that affected her, just as she was about everything in her life. For her, openness was part of healing inherited wounds. All secrets must come to light, only then can they stop being full of shame. Only then can you live without fear, as yourself. Her writing also bears witness to that.”
Church bells rang for hours in the middle of the night: “Sorry”
Last night the villagers in Junsele heard the church bells ring – for over three hours.
“Sorry! Due to a programming error, the church bells rang Junsele for several hours last night. Thanks to the wise intervention of residents in Junsele, they finally quieted down. We apologize profusely to those of you who have been disturbed and especially to those of you who have become worried and scared,” writes the Church of Sweden in Sollefteå on its Facebook.
The bells should actually have rung on New Year’s Eve, but it didn’t. At 03:00 last night, the cantor woke up and saw that she had received a text message from a villager who wondered what was going on. Then she heard the bells herself and went to church. At 03.35 she was there and turned off the clocks, writes The newspaper Ångermanland.
– There was an error in the programming. The New Year’s celebration had ended up on the wrong day. There was no ringing on New Year’s Eve, but it rang last night instead, says caretaker Margareta Bohman, to the newspaper.
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Hey! I am a little curious about the arrest of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s son, Ovidio Guzmán, which took place the day before yesterday in Mexico. Have you written anything about this?
Johannes
I saw on the game program bingo lotto that the two Norwegian brothers were going to participate in the Swedish melody festival.
Isn’t it a requirement that you have to live in Sweden to be able to participate?
Mikael
Hi Mikael!
Nix, you don’t have to be a Swedish citizen or registered in Sweden to participate.
But, if you are not, then there is a requirement that at least one author in the contribution must be a Swedish citizen or registered in Sweden.
That’s what it says at Melodifestivalen website.
Who the hell is Martin Melin?
Claes Gilered
Hi Claes! 🙂
There may be several Martin Melins.
But the Martin Melin we sometimes write about is currently a Member of Parliament for the Liberals. He is also a police officer, former winner of Robinson and also ex-husband of writer Camilla Läckberg.
Here you can read more about Martin Melin.
Hey! There is a lot of talk about protective hunting
wolf, but why isn’t Heby municipality/Uppsala county included, where today there are two large alpha packs, one of which is about 11 individuals
The ball
Hey! This is what Alpo Syväjärvi, regional director of the Mitt Hunter Association, says about why you are not allowed to hunt wolves in Uppsala:
– The Environmental Protection Agency has not given the county administrative board in Uppsala delegation to make a decision on possible wolf hunting this year. The Environmental Protection Agency probably considers that the wolf tribe in Uppland is not extensive enough to be given hunting rights here, he says, to UNT.
How is the ceasefire in Ukraine going?
Christian
Hey! Ukraine says that Russia broke the ceasefire in Kherson earlier on Saturday, according to The Guardian.
Russia is said to have attacked a fire station where several people are said to have been injured or killed, according to the newspaper.
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