Truck has overturned – blocking the road

The winter sickness is here

Today, the Public Health Authority is giving an unwelcome message to the vast majority of people – the season for winter vomiting sickness is here.

Spread occurs in society all year round, but the authority’s monitoring shows that the epidemic has now gained momentum in society.

– How extensive the spread will be this season cannot yet be said. Last season, more cases were reported than the year before. The most intense weeks occurred in February, compared to April the previous season, says deputy state epidemiologist Erik Sturegård in a press release.

Germany stops decisions on asylum applications from Syrians

Due to the situation in Syria, Germany’s migration authority issued an immediate decision on Monday not to process asylum applications from Syrians until further notice. That’s what Spiegel writes.

A spokesman for the agency says it is unclear how the situation in Syria will affect the country’s policy. It is believed that it is therefore difficult to be able to make correct assessments.

One is charged with rape within the domestic service

A 25-year-old man has been charged with raping two women in the domestic service in Uppsala. The rapes took place during the same night, reports SVT Uppsala.

The man is also charged with several cases of gross sexual assault and offensive photography. According to the investigation, he filmed the rapes and assaults.

During the autumn, Uppsala Municipality held crisis meetings due to the discovery of several cases of rape and sexual harassment in care for the elderly.

Several home care workers have been suspended.

Preschools end reflective vests after boy’s death

After the accident at a preschool in Umeå, where a boy was injured and later died, several preschools in Umeå are now choosing to stop using reflective vests, writes SVT Västerbotten.

The municipality has called on the preschools in the city to review their routines.

– We want them to ensure that it is safe for the children outdoors and examine the reflective vests to see that they are not a danger to the children, says Katarina Stillesjö Vilhelmsson to SVT.

Alert about a new suspicious object in Malmö

The police have been alerted to yet another suspected dangerous object in Malmö.

– We have received a call about a potentially suspicious dangerous object on Nydalatorget, says Sara Andersson at the police.

The patrol went out to the scene to make an assessment of the object.

A short time later, it was established that the object was harmless.

Men proposed – father shot dead in front of one-year-old

On June 20, summer 2023, a father was shot dead in his car in a parking garage in Malmö. In the back seat was his one-year-old daughter who narrowly escaped the shots.

Now she cries every time she goes by car, the mother told the hearing.

The murdered man appears in the police register and was previously suspected of several crimes. The police suspect that the murder is about a settlement in the gang criminal environment.

Just over a month after the murder, two men suspected of the murder were arrested. They were later charged.

But after the trial ended a few weeks ago, both were released.

Today, the district court acquitted them, the prosecutor announced, according to Expressen.

Accused man forced to change nursing home – lives near preschool

An elderly man who is charged with serious child pornography offenses will change residence, Umeå Municipality announces in a press release.

The reason is that he lives near a preschool.

The municipality writes that they have chosen to prioritize the children’s safety over the tenancy legislation.

– It is clearly different team rooms that meet and stand against each other. Now the indictment and the debate also coincide with the fact that the man’s accommodation needs to be renovated, which was clear last week, says Charlotta Lundström Barsk, director of operations for care and care accommodation.

She hopes the move will take place this week.

The government raises the interest rate on driver’s license loans

In January, it will be more expensive to take out a driver’s license loan with CSN.

The interest rate, which in 2024 was 2.64 percent, will be raised to 3.73 percent in 2025.

Naked man in hotel reception in Borlänge

On Monday morning, police were called to a hotel in central Borlänge. The reason was that a naked and drunk man made it to the hotel reception, the police write on their website.

The staff must have walked away but the man followed.

The man was taken into care with the support of the law on the care of intoxicated persons.

He is now suspected of sexual harassment and minor drug offences.

Child on scooter hit by car

A child on a scooter has been hit by a car in Staffanstorp in Skåne.

– It is a child under the age of 15, says Sara Andersson, police spokesperson.

The accident must have happened in a residential area.

The child was taken by ambulance to hospital with minor injuries.

The police do not suspect any crime.

Boy dies after accident at preschool

The boy under the age of seven who was injured at a preschool last week in Umeå has died, the police say.

Emilia was found dead – now charges are being brought

Charges are now being brought against a 15-year-old girl who is suspected of murdering 14-year-old Emilia in Landskrona on the night of July 23 this year.

– I mean that both girls are equally involved in both the planning and execution of the crimes. They have done this together and in agreement, says senior prosecutor Pernilla Nilsson.

The murder of Emilia has received a lot of attention as both the victim and the suspected perpetrators are so young and as they are said to have been friends with each other.

Parts of the proceedings were also filmed, according to the suspects, by the perpetrators themselves and then spread on social media.

Emilia’s mother has described her daughter as a caring girl.

– In Emilia’s world, there were no evil people. It was only people who made mistakes.

Car has run into a stone wall and overturned

A car has driven into a stone wall on national highway 51 just south of Örebro.

– The car has driven into the wall and then overturned. The emergency services and ambulance are on the scene, says Agnes Brandt, team leader at SOS.

One person is involved in the accident. The extent of the damage is unclear.

According to the emergency services, the road is slippery and the car has skidded in connection with the accident.

– The car is still in the right lane. The road is closed, says Agnes Brandt.

Underground cells searched in Assad’s “slaughterhouse”

Five special teams from the Syrian Civil Defense have been sent to Sednaya prison outside Damascus to investigate hidden underground cells where prisoners are feared to be.

Although hundreds of prisoners, including women and children, have already been freed, there are still cells that no one has reached.

The teams consist of search and rescue units, wall and door opening specialists, dog units and medical personnel, writes the civil defense force White Helmets on X.

They are accompanied by a guide with knowledge of the structure of the prison.

Ev ward, called the “red prison”, is three floors underground and has not yet been opened.

Dubbed the “slaughterhouse” by Amnesty International, Sednaya prison is a notorious military prison where the Assad regime is believed to have held over 100,000 people in torture-like conditions.