Therefore, a police helicopter circulates over the inner city

Great avalanche risk in Åre

Ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, the Åre Avalanche Center warns of great avalanche danger in the southern Jämtlandsfjällen. This after heavy snowfall in recent days, which is now expected to continue before Christmas.

The avalanche danger in Åre, Bydalen, Sylarna and Storulvån is currently assessed as significant.

– If you go off-piste, you expose yourself to the risk of being dragged into an avalanche and being buried, says Mårten Johansson at the avalanche center to SVT.

Tahini recalled – risk of salmonella

Sevan brand tahini is being recalled after salmonella was detected during sampling.

Cans of 800 g and buckets of 5 kg and 18 kg are affected.

Singer Staffan Percy dead

The singer Staffan Percy has died, aged 78, according to Ystads Allehanda.

He was best known for his musical settings of Bo Setterlind’s poems, including “The Ship of Dreams” from 1979.

Staffan Percy broke through in the 1970s and appeared frequently on television in the following decades. Several songs ended up on the Svensktoppen, including “Än briner var våg” from 1976 and “There is a longing” four years later.

The collaboration with Bo Setterlind began in 1975 and lasted for 15 years, the poet died in 1991.

Staffan Percy also often performed songs by Evert Taube and Mats Paulson. He received the Nils Ferlin Society’s Troubadour Award in 1993 and the Evert Taube Scholarship four years later.

Stockholm native Percy moved to Vollsjö in Skåne about 20 years ago and often played in churches and with choirs, including with Kjell Lönnå as choir director.

Student forced to take off Muslim clothes – teacher fired by DO

At the time of the Muslim holiday Eid, a student in Gothenburg wore a traditional holiday dress to school. A teacher found the clothes inappropriate and provocative, and forced the student to change.

The case was reported to the Discrimination Ombudsman, DO, who assesses that the teacher exposed the student to harassment related to religion.

– Questioning the clothes you wear is very offensive, not least when there is a connection to religion or ethnic affiliation. Here it is also a teacher who offends the student, which makes it particularly serious, says Vanessa Grapenstedt, process manager at DO in a press release.

The school has admitted that they discriminated against the student and has paid discrimination compensation to him.

Murder suspect wanted in custody

The man who is suspected of the murder of Nimo in Märsta is wanted in custody, writes Svd.

Authority: Dangerous shortages of playgrounds

The Swedish Consumer Agency states in a press release that a random inspection of four recreational facilities shows dangerous deficiencies.

Deficiencies that were also present during previous inspections:

“Unfortunately, we see that there are facilities that have not fixed damage to safety nets so that children can fall out or get their heads hanging, and that there are not enough staff to keep children playing under supervision,” says Anna Strandberg, who is an investigator at the Swedish Consumer Agency in a press release.

The deficiencies are now part of an ongoing investigation by the authority. It is not clear which playgrounds have been checked.

Accused in the da Costa case seek redress

Teet Härm and Thomas Allgén were singled out for having murdered and dismembered Catrine da Costa in 1984, a case that has received attention after a current SVT documentary.

Now the men’s lawyer Tomas Olsson announces in Sveriges Radios P1 Morning that he will seek redress for them.

According to the lawyer, there are two ways – either he tries to get a remedy in the Court of Appeal or that the men receive a so-called “ex gratia” compensation, a financial compensation, from the government.

– We have drawn up a strategy for how to go through the material and what to focus on, says Tomas Olsson.

He estimates being able to achieve results within six months to a year.

Woman assaulted outdoors by several men – large police effort

A woman has been jumped on and abused in the street by two men, in Fisksätra outside Stockholm.

– We are there with a large number of police patrols to find out what happened and search for the perpetrators, says police spokesperson Mats Eriksson.

The woman is said to have been kicked and beaten.

Two arrested for murder of top general in Russia

Two people have been arrested for the murder of the Russian general Igor Kirillov in Moscow, writes Reuters.

Car has driven into rock wall – one injured

For an unknown reason, a car has driven straight into a rock wall in Karlshamn.

The alarm came in yesterday at 11 p.m.

The driver was taken to hospital by ambulance.

– The extent of the damage is unclear, says Evelina Olsson, police spokesperson.

The police do not suspect any crime in this connection.

The car has been towed from the scene.

Weather warnings in almost all of Sweden

SMHI has issued new weather warnings in the country. Except in the northernmost north and southernmost south, the map glows yellow with warnings.

Heavy snowfall is expected in the north of Sweden, which can cause slippage, disruptions in the electricity and broadband networks.

In Stockholm and the rest of central Sweden, rain on cold surfaces can cause sudden ice slippage.

Suspected rape at company party

A 45-year-old man was arrested during the night after a suspected rape at a restaurant near Triangeln in Malmö.

– A 25-year-old woman was raped in the toilet during a company party. She has been taken to hospital by ambulance for a check-up, says Lasse Brundin, duty officer at the police.

The police were called to the restaurant at 01:15. The man was arrested elsewhere.

– He has not been questioned yet, says Lasse Brundin.

Outbreak of the mysterious dance disease “dinga dinga”

Authorities in Uganda are confirming an outbreak of a mysterious illness that causes fever, severe tremors and difficulty walking.

More than 300 people, mostly women and girls, have been affected since November in what is described as a dancing disease. The inhabitants of the affected region call it “dinga dinga”. The expression can be translated as “shake as one dances”, writes the Ugandan newspaper The Monitor.

The causes of the disease are not clear, but the local health director Kiyita Christopher says that antibiotics can help and that the dancing disease heals on its own in a week.

Patience Katusiime, 18, is one of those treated in hospital with “dinga dinga”.

– I felt weak and paralyzed and my body shook uncontrollably as soon as I tried to walk. It was very disturbing, she tells The Monitor.

Chaos in Canada after Trump’s threats

Chaos grew on Monday in Canadian politics. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced resignation calls even from within his own party after his Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned, writes the BBC.

– It has been an eventful day. It has not been an easy day, said Trudeau, whose popularity is falling after ten years in power.

The background to the finance minister’s resignation is a crack in the view of how the tariff threats and the mocking rhetoric from the US president-elect should be met.

Donald Trump commented on the events in the same style as in recent months. In one post, he again called Canada a “state” and Trudeau a “governor”.