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Suspected electricity subsidy fraudsters were arrested by civil police
A 90-year-old woman in Borås has been the victim of an attempted electricity subsidy fraud.
The woman was called by an unknown man who wanted to help her manage her electricity allowance money.
She sensed trouble and alerted a neighbor who called the police.
Civil police were sent to the woman’s house and were able to arrest two people who approached the residence. Two more people were arrested nearby.
The incident is being investigated as attempted theft.
Two people have been arrested and two have been released at large.
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The king goes on a state visit to Estonia
The King and Queen Silvia during their visit to Västerås. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT
The King and Queen Silvia will go on a state visit to Estonia on May 2-4, the Royal House announces in a press release.
The delegation will also include members of the government and representatives of business.
The purpose of the visit is to deepen the relationship between the countries and, among other things, to discuss a deeper cooperation in security and defence.
The visit will take place in Tallinn and Tartu.
Two teenage boys badly beaten in grocery store
The police were alerted to an assault in a grocery store in Södertälje on Tuesday morning.
Several young men allegedly ran into the store and knocked over goods and furnishings, the police report. They then assaulted a teenage boy.
The boy has been kicked and beaten. Another abused boy is also found in the store.
None of the teenage boys required treatment for their injuries.
The crime classification is aggravated assault.
The perpetrators are said to have run from the scene. No one is arrested.
Suspected dangerous object – operation underway
A police operation is underway in Stadshagen in Stockholm.
According to information to Aftonbladet, an employee at Region Stockholm must have opened a letter with powder in it.
The emergency services state that they are on the scene.
– We are investigating whether it should be some unknown substance. We check whether it is going to be dangerous or not, says Henrik Gynnersjö, commanding officer at the rescue service in Stockholm.
The rescue service does not want to go into any further details.
The police are on the scene and are assisting the emergency services with help.
– What the emergency services do is that they examine a shipment. At the moment, no crime is suspected, but later that may change, says Daniel Vikdahl, press spokesperson for the police in the Stockholm region.
The alarm came in at 09:30.
There should be no danger to the public.
Read more about the event here.
Fully developed fire in barn
Police and emergency services were alerted to a fire outside Malmköping at 07:42 in the morning.
It is a fully developed fire.
No people or animals must be in the building.
Canceled departures in Lund after signal failure
A signal failure at Lund was reported just before 07:30 on Tuesday, reports the Swedish Transport Administration.
This creates delays and several canceled departures in train traffic.
– It causes delays in several directions and edges. All trains that pass through Lund are affected and there is no forecast for when the problem can be remedied, says Beisi Sundin, press communicator at the Swedish Transport Administration, to South Sweden.
Xi gives Putin his support in presidential election
Chinese President Xi Jinping gives President Putin his best wishes in the upcoming elections in Russia, writes Politico.
– I know that there are presidential elections in your country next year. Thanks to your strong leadership, Russia has made significant progress in achieving prosperity in recent years. I am sure that the Russian people will give strong support to their president, he told Putin, according to the state news agency Tass.
Xi Jinping is currently in Moscow for a three-day visit.
Injured woman found in Stockholm – man arrested for attempted murder
An injured woman was found outdoors by a private person on Södermalm in Stockholm during the night.
She was helped to get into a stairwell before the police were called to the scene.
The woman had met a man in his 30s in an apartment, where she was subjected to violence. The police then search the apartment but the man is not there.
Later, the police find him at another location, where he is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
The woman was taken to hospital and the apartment was cordoned off for a technical examination.
Ferry accident in Gabon – many dead
Several dead have been found after a ferry accident in Gabon. A total of 26 people have been confirmed dead. Eleven passengers are still missing, TT reports.
The ferry was on its way from the capital Libreville to the city of Port-Gentil, the prosecutor’s office said.
After the incident, the country’s transport minister resigned. 33 people have been arrested in connection with a criminal investigation into the accident.
A fire was made at a playhouse in Huddinge
The police and emergency services were alerted to a fire in Huddinge at 00:14 on the night of Tuesday.
A man set fire to a playhouse and has been taken into care with the support of LPT, the Compulsory Psychiatric Treatment Act, the police report.
Skistar increases its turnover
Skistar reports a turnover of SEK 2.4 billion for the second quarter of the broken financial year, TT reports.
This corresponds to an increase of 8 percent compared to the same period the year before. The company itself describes the result before tax for the quarter as the “best in the company’s history”.
“The result shows that the interest in alpine skiing is still great and that the trend of vacationing at home in the Scandinavian mountain world is continuing this winter as well,” says the company’s CEO Stefan Sjöstrand in a comment.
Ikea recalls games – children can suffocate
Ikea recalls the Blue Winged game. Photo: Ikea
Ikea is recalling the Blåvingad fish game, TT reports.
It has been discovered that small rivets on the game can come loose so that there is a risk of small children putting them in their throats.
Ikea urges all customers who own the game to stop using it and contact Ikea for a full refund. The game can be returned to any Ikea store and no receipt is needed.
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Why is one of the two men who murdered Ulf mentioned with a picture and name and not the other??? After all, both were sentenced as a return.
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Hello! The man whose name and picture we published is sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.
Life-sentenced murderers are often named, because the public interest in those cases often outweighs possible publicity damage.
The other man, whose name and picture we have not published, was convicted of aggravated robbery.
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I have been looking for an article I read about a police officer who lent his bank card to his father who was in debt settlement, are you able to link it to me? ☺️
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It was a policeman who lent a card to his father-in-law. Guess that’s the one you’re referring to. You can read about it here.
Hello, why has interest in the Ukraine war cooled so much in the Swedish press and news reporting? In foreign reporting, there are lots of analyzes and status reports!
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It may feel cold compared to how it was in the first months at the outbreak of the war, when a very large part of the news reporting was devoted to the Ukraine war.
But I would say we are still reporting intensively. Among other things, we have a team in place now that reports on many fatalities. Feel free to follow our collective reporting here!
Hello. What was the big police operation in Stockholm city about yesterday? Nothing more has been written about it.
Alex
Hello Alex! We wrote about it yesterday here. It seems to have been about a fight at a hamburger restaurant.
Difficult to read the posts…. It’s usually white text on a black background! But now the text is kind of gray on a black background??? Is it just my phone that is ghosting or???
Etc. Thomas Engman
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We are currently experiencing technical issues, we are working on fixing it as soon as possible!
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