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French authorities now say they stopped three plans for terrorist attacks during the Olympics and Paralympics in Paris and other French cities.
Anti-terrorism prosecutor Olivier Christen says one of the foiled terror plots involved attacks on Israeli institutions and representatives in Paris during the Olympics, but that the Israeli Olympic team was not a target.
A total of five people, one of whom was a minor, were arrested on suspicion of plans to attack the Olympics.
Security during the Olympic and Paralympic competitions was rigorous. Before the Olympics, the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, warned of security threats, including from Islamist extremist groups, violent environmental activists, far-right groups and cyber attacks from Russia and others.
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Young Swedes continue to cross the strait on a mission to commit serious violent crimes.
Last night, an 18-year-old Swedish man was arrested on suspicion of weapons offenses and attempted murder.
– The young man was arrested on a street in Nørrebro when he had a weapon on him, Copenhagen police said in a statement.
The 18-year-old is thus the second Swede to face a detention hearing in Denmark today.
A detention hearing was held against a 16-year-old boy earlier today. That boy is suspected of attempted murder, possession of a weapon and of having attempted to carry out an explosion.
At least two people are said to be injured in a car accident on Vaxholmsvägen in Stockholm, according to the police.
The accident must involve four cars and the emergency services, ambulance and police are ordered to the scene.
The road is closed in both directions.
Big cuts could await electronics giant Samsung. Archive image. Photo: Ahn Young-joon AP/TT
The South Korean electronics giant Samsung is planning major staff cuts globally. This is reported by the Reuters news agency with reference to sources.
According to the data, up to 30 percent of the workforce in certain business areas will be made redundant. Among other things, personnel in administration and marketing are mentioned.
Parts of a building have collapsed in Ulricehamn, reports the GP.
– We are blocking off now, says Jonas Myrén, officer on duty at the rescue service, to the newspaper.
It must be about a larger breed.
– We don’t really know where it will go, if it rages more, he says.
According to the companies working on the site, everyone should be out and no one is missing.
There have been alarms about drones at Arlanda three days in a row. But nothing has yet been confirmed, according to the police.
“There are currently no sightings that can be confirmed to be drones. The police investigate these observations and the investigation must show whether drone flights have taken place and, if so, what this may have intended. Crime classification at the moment is airport sabotage and violation of the Protection Act,” the police write in an email.
It continues:
“It is not unusual for the police to receive tips about eyewitness accounts of drones. We follow up on the observations we receive in cases where it may be a crime and cooperate when necessary with other interested parties and authorities. Identifying drones and judging distances is very difficult in the dark.”
A 45-year-old man is sentenced for murdering a 33-year-old woman with whom he had a relationship.
According to the verdict, he allegedly injected her with a fatal dose of narcotics and also subjected her to violence. The woman was found dead on 22 November 2023 in an apartment in Norrköping.
Suspicions were quickly directed at the elderly man, who has a long list of previous convictions against him.
The 45-year-old man is now sentenced to forensic psychiatric care with a special discharge examination as he suffers from a serious mental disorder.
Emilia, 14, was buried in August this year. Photo: Krister Hansson
Five new people are suspected after the murder of 14-year-old Emilia in Landskrona, writes Helsingborgs Dagblad.
A total of eight people are suspected of having been involved in various ways.
Since before, a 15-year-old girl is suspected of murder and a minor girl is also suspected of murder. Due to her young age, she has been taken into the care of social authorities.
Emilia was found murdered on July 23. She was subjected to severe violence, which led to her death.
A twelve-year-old has been hit outside Willys on Eklandagatan in Gothenburg, the police say. The boy is taken to the children’s intensive care unit, but should not have life-threatening injuries.
The accident is being investigated as negligence in traffic and causing bodily harm.
Leading chains reduce the price of petrol and diesel on Wednesday.
The target price for 95-octane petrol at manned stations is reduced by 10 öre to SEK 16.59 per litre. It is the lowest price since August 2021.
The diesel price is reduced by 20 öre to SEK 16.69 per litre. To find a lower price for diesel, you have to go back to May 2021.
The ethanol price (E85) is reduced by 10 öre to SEK 13.34 per litre.
Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT / TT News Agency
The government and the Sweden Democrats are presenting a new investment in the judiciary.
Over a five-year period, they expect it to grow from 69 billion per year to 100 billion per year.
The police are proposed to receive SEK 1.4 billion.
They are also launching a new financial intelligence center where the Police Agency, the Ecocrime Agency, the Tax Agency and the banks will have the opportunity to work together and exchange operational information.
– The financial police must have a central role in the work, says Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson during the press conference.
The security police will receive 95 million for the year 2025.
The government and SD have also agreed that those who study at the police training starting in the autumn semester 2024 will have their student loans repaid or written off.
– Under certain conditions and conditions, of course, says Jimmie Åkesson.
A 16-year-old boy who is suspected of attempted murder in Denmark will be extradited there and will face a detention hearing in the morning, the Copenhagen police write on X.
He is suspected of attempted murder, possession of weapons and of having attempted to carry out an explosion. The police write that the boy is suspected of having tried to fire shots at one or more people and of possessing two pistols and two hand grenades.
The prosecutor has requested that the detention hearing be held behind closed doors.
The boy was arrested on 19 August and has since been detained in Sweden. Recently, Danish authorities requested that he be extradited to Denmark. The boy appealed the decision to the Supreme Court but was rejected.
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A man was attacked on Tuesday evening when he spent the night in a tent in Finspång.
“The plaintiff had been robbed of belongings and abused by several people,” the police write on their website.
The man had to be taken to hospital with what are described as “obvious injuries from severe violence”. The incident is being investigated as aggravated assault.
Now the police are appealing to the public.
“If you have made observations in the area concerning a group of people who moved or talked about the incident, you are welcome to contact the police to make society safer.”
A truck is stuck under a viaduct on the E20 in Lerum, reports P4 West. The accident has a major impact on traffic.
There is no information on the state of the damage.
A police employee in Skåne is charged with beating two female colleagues in the police’s internal system. Printouts from the searches were later found in a parking lot and the finder mailed the documents to the women concerned, Sydsvenskan reports.
The finder had also photographed the registration number of the car that was where the documents were. The car turned out to belong to the police employee and was also parked outside a residence belonging to a relative of his.
The prints are extracts from the police’s register of criminal suspicions, possession of weapons and whether you have been taken into custody for drunkenness. The man denies any wrongdoing and says he believes the finding of the transcripts can be explained by someone else trying to frame him.
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