New suspected murder squad arrested in Malmö

Several international authorities are warning of a Russian group that has carried out extensive cyber attacks in recent years. Archive image. Photo: Pavel Golovkin/AP/TT

German intelligence warns of a Russian cyber unit with close ties to power in the Kremlin.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian hackers have been accused of more and more attacks against IT systems in the West.

The group “UNC2589”, which is linked to a unit within the Russian intelligence service GRU, is behind a series of cyber attacks against several NATO and EU countries, the German intelligence service BFV announces on X.

According to BFV, the group’s task is to spy and carry out sabotage, including by publishing stolen data.

The group is said to be subordinate to the Russian GRU’s unit 29155, which, among other things, is suspected of involvement in the poisoning of the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in British Salisbury in 2018.

A dead man has been found in Idre, reports SVT Nyheter Dalarna. According to the police, it is very likely the Norwegian man who disappeared during a canoe trip on August 26.

– But it is not one hundred percent certain with the identification, says Gabriel Henning of the police to the channel.

Earlier, the man’s canoe and equipment were found, and now a body has been found near the site. Relatives have been notified. The cause of death is currently unclear.

A large amount of valuable goods has been stolen from a church in Skara after a burglary.

– We will have to come back to the exact amount, but it is a large value. It is staff who see that someone has broken in and see damage inside the church and that there are missing goods, says Jens Andersson, press spokesperson for the police in the West region.

It is unclear what was stolen.

– It is a massive destruction. A staff member came in this morning and found the safe broken open and suspected it had been stolen, says the parish priest.

Leading chains in the country start the week by continuing to lower the prices of petrol, diesel and biodiesel after a series of reductions last week.

The target price for 95-octane petrol at manned stations is reduced by 10 öre to SEK 16.59 per litre.

The diesel price is simultaneously reduced by 20 öre to SEK 16.79 per litre, while the price of biodiesel (HVO100) is reduced by 30 öre to SEK 19.34 per litre.

With Monday’s cuts, gasoline and diesel prices are at their lowest levels since summer 2021, and biodiesel prices are the cheapest since September 2021.

The prices of vehicle gas and ethanol (E85) are left unchanged on Monday.

There is a train stop on the Västra main line south of Stockholm at Gnesta, reports SVT Nyheter Sörmland. The reason is a gear failure.

– We have no forecast for how long it will last, says Felicia Danielsson, press communicator at the Swedish Transport Administration.

Drones should have been seen over Uppsala during the night just hours before the flight stop at Arlanda, reports Sweden’s Radio Ekot.

During the night, all air traffic at Arlanda was stopped due to drones being seen over the airport.

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One billion kroner in the autumn budget goes to increased energy supply and to promote a green transition.

The new investment support for the electricity system is called “kraftlyftet” and, according to Energy Minister Ebba Busch (KD), is an investment support to strengthen the electricity system’s capabilities where the needs are greatest.

– So it is about investments in electricity production, energy storage, flexibility or other system services that are currently not available on market grounds, says Ebba Busch at a press meeting with Tidöpartierna.

The government also wants to get municipalities to say yes to new wind power to a greater extent.

– The government will invest in support to the municipalities corresponding to the income from the property tax on wind power plants for municipalities that say yes to new wind power, says climate minister Romina Pourmokhtari (L).

The support to the municipalities will correspond to the property tax for wind power. This means SEK 340 million in 2025, SEK 370 million in 2026 and SEK 400 million in 2027.

The government must come back to exactly how the compensation to the municipalities is to be distributed.

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The number of families with children who are evicted is increasing, statistics from the Crown Enforcement Agency show. Archive image. Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT

During the first half of 2024, 188 families with children were evicted in Sweden, statistics from the Kronofogden show. This is an increase of 13 percent compared to the same period last year. A total of 342 children were affected, which is a similar level as before.

“It is deeply worrying that the number of children affected by evictions remains at such a high level. Every child who is affected by an eviction is in a very vulnerable situation, regardless of whether they live full-time or part-time with the parent who is evicted,” says Davor Vuleta, private financial spokesperson at the Swedish Enforcement Agency, in a press release.

In total, the Kronofogden carried out 1,579 evictions during the first half of the year. The number of evictions decreased until 2017, but has since increased. In the last two years, evictions have increased by 26 percent.

The police followed a car that refused to stop on route 23 on the night of Monday. Inside Älmhult, the police stopped the car.

– The police patrol wants to check a car and the driver doesn’t stop, so they start a pursuit. On Danskavägen, this car gets stopped and in connection with that there is a collision with these police cars, says Katarina Rusin, press spokesperson for the police.

There are no reports of personal injuries.

The man in his 20s who drove the car is suspected of aggravated threats against an official, aggravated drunken driving, aggravated illegal driving, gross negligence in traffic and minor drug offences.

A 25-year-old man is being treated for serious injuries after he drove into a wall in Borgholm, reports P4 Kalmar.

The alarm came just before 8pm on Sunday evening and the emergency services, police and ambulance were called to the scene.

A person was found dead north of Stockholm during the night and the police have started a preliminary investigation into suspected murder.

At the same time, the police say that the criminal suspicions have weakened.

– We are starting to get a better picture of the whole thing and a lot of unclear circumstances are no longer unclear, says Daniel Wikdahl, press spokesperson for the police in the Stockholm region.

A road was closed in connection with the police operation at the scene but has now been opened.

The police were alerted during the morning to Brandbergen in Stockholm.

– It is a little unclear what has happened. A person appears to have been thrashing about with what is possibly a shovel. It starts with someone smashing windows and this appears to be a residential building, says Daniel Wikdahl, spokesperson for the police.

The incident is currently classified as vandalism.

After observation in surveillance cameras, the police were alerted at 01:44 to a bicycle workshop in Masmo, south of Stockholm.

– It was seen that people entered a bicycle workshop and ran around with flashlights, says Daniel Wikdahl at the police’s regional command center.

At the scene, a 45-year-old man on a bicycle was arrested immediately.

Another person was tracked by a dog patrol, but when he was about to be arrested, he kicked the dog and fled into Lake Albysjön.

– We didn’t swim after, but followed out in the rescue service’s boat, says Daniel Wikdahl.

The man jumped into the water at 02.15 and could only be picked up for 39 minutes to be arrested.

– He was cold but seemed to be fine. It took a while to find him, but the patrols had verbal contact with him in the water.

The man was examined on the spot by paramedics. He is now suspected of theft and blue light sabotage. The latter classification refers to the violence against the dog.

For almost an hour during the night to Monday, the police chased a car between Älmhult and Osby – round trip.

The driver, a man in his 20s, was arrested at 01:00.

– He didn’t stop at the policeman’s sign, then it goes at fairly high speeds. They try to catch him, but can’t stop. With one more push, you finally get a stop. There are two police vehicles that pushed him, says Viktor Jensen, on-call preliminary investigation manager at the police in Växjö, to Smålandsposten.

The man is now suspected of gross drunk driving, gross negligence in traffic and drug offences, the newspaper writes.