Security guards on patrol at Elbit Systems in the Kallebäck district raised the alarm in the middle of the night on June 3 this year that two mysterious objects were located at the Israel Defense Corporation building.
A large area was cordoned off and the police’s national bomb disposal unit neutralized the objects. The investigations showed that it was about two thermoses containing approximately 3.3 kilos of dynamite explosive.
Surveillance cameras around the property were able to capture how two dark-clad and masked people on electric scooters arrived at the company building. One of them drove up to the entrance, placed the bombs and set fire to the stairwell. Both then fled the scene.
Therefore, the thermoses did not explode
On Wednesday, the prosecutor was able to bring charges against three people who are suspected of involvement in the incident.
It is partly about a now 17-year-old boy and a 24-year-old man, natives of other parts of Sweden, who are suspected of being the two on the electric scooters who carried out the bombing attempt.
Both were charged with aggravated unlawful threats and aggravated breach of the Inflammable and Explosive Goods Act. The fact that it became that classification is because the bombs were incorrectly constructed and did not have a detonator, and thus could not detonate.
Tried again at night
Two days later, on the night of June 5, the same duo is suspected of attempting to cause public destruction, according to the indictment. They are said to have gone around Elbit’s System with a sharp explosive charge consisting of almost a kilo of dynamite. However, the attack plans were aborted for an unknown reason.
The third defendant is a 29-year-old man who is suspected of having stored and later handed over the sharp dynamite bomb to the duo on electric scooters in the new bombing attempt. The man is suspected of aiding and abetting an attempt to cause public destruction and gross violation of the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods.
In the investigation, the police have not succeeded in identifying a possible instigator and his possible political motive. Elbit Systems has been the victim of other crimes and, due to the threat image, has police surveillance.
The trial will begin later in November in the Gothenburg District Court.