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Unrest has arisen in Nantes. Photo: Jeremias Gonzalez/AP
As the counting of votes continues, thousands of French people have taken to the streets to have their say on the election results.
In most places, it seems to be going peacefully, according to BBC.
But in Nantes in western France, unrest has broken out, with riot police using tear gas.
Even in the Place de la Republique in Paris, the police have clashed with demonstrators. Photos show how a pile of bicycles was set on fire.
Before election night, 30,000 extra police officers had been called in to keep order on the streets.
Read more about the French election here
It has also been noisy in Lyon during the evening. Photo: Laurent Cipriani/AP
THREE NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy. Archive image. Photo: Thomas Krych/AP/TT
Britain’s newly appointed Foreign Minister David Lammy traveled to Sweden on Sunday.
In Stockholm, the new foreign minister met his Swedish counterpart, Tobias Billström (M). At the meeting, the ministers discussed, among other things, defense cooperation and support for Ukraine.
“After my conversation with Foreign Minister Lammy, I am convinced that the conditions for continuing to deepen and develop cooperation with Great Britain are very good,” says Tobias Billström in a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
David Lammy, who previously held ministerial posts in both Tony Blair’s and Gordon Brown’s governments, replaced conservative David Cameron as foreign secretary after Labour’s landslide victory in the UK general election on Friday.
Police operation in Bagarmossen in southern Stockholm. Photo: Blue light images
A police operation is underway in Bagarmossen in southern Stockholm.
According to Aftonbladet’s information, there has been a shooting, but no one is said to have been injured.
A forest area has been cordoned off.
The police are tight-lipped about the operation, but say they are investigating a suspected serious crime.
– It is an ongoing operation, I cannot say anything more, says the police officer on duty.
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Swedish Nobel laureate Bengt Samuelsson is dead, his relatives confirm to Aftonbladet. He lived to be 90 years old.
He died on Sunday after a long illness.
In 1982, Bengt Samuelsson received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Sune Bergström and the Briton John R. Vane – for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances.
He has also been rector of Karolinska Institutet.
Read more here.
The fire in Västerås. Photo: Reader image
There is a fire in the terrain at Erikslund in Västerås, near a shopping centre.
The alarm came in shortly before 8 p.m.
For a while there was a high risk of spreading, but by 9 p.m. the fire was under control.
– The emergency services have set a forecast of a few hours, says the police officer on duty.
There are no reports of any injuries.
At 8 p.m., polling stations closed in the second round of the French parliamentary elections.
According to the polling station survey, the left-wing alliance NFP is the largest.
No group seems to get an absolute majority.
At 5 p.m., voter turnout was close to 60 percent – the highest in 43 years, according to France24.
The political situation is tense, and many fear violence during the evening. 30,000 extra police officers have been called into the country.
Read more here.
The police were alerted on Sunday evening about a fight outside in Norrköping.
– According to the alarm, there were about 20 people in a fight belonging to two equal groups. When we arrived at the scene, there were eight people left, says police spokesperson Rasmus Borgström.
– Two people were injured, one was taken to hospital by ambulance.
The extent of the damage is unclear.
The whole thing is currently classified as assault and serious assault. The police are looking for suspects.
The rescue service responded to a drowning alarm in Årjäng in Värmland at around 5:30 p.m.
– You have seen two people who have been fishing who have fallen into the water, says a team leader at SOS Alarm who is responsible for the rescue region Bergslagen, to NWT.
At 18.20, both people had been picked up from the water. The extent of the damage is unclear.
– One of them was hypothermic, says the officer on duty at the police in the Bergslagen region.
One person to hospital after a fire on Södermalm in Stockholm. Photo: Blåljus Sthlm
A major effort is underway at Södermalm in central Stockholm.
There is a fire in an apartment building. Police, ambulance and emergency services were alerted to the development of smoke shortly after 5 p.m.
– Several people are slightly injured, one person has been taken by ambulance to hospital, also slightly injured, says the police officer on duty.
A man in his 20s has been taken to hospital by ambulance after a motorcycle accident in Öjaby in Växjö.
The police and ambulance were dispatched at 4:30 p.m. following an alarm that the motorcycle driver had driven off the road.
The extent of the damage is unclear.
Several businesses in Paris have set up window coverings ahead of the election. Photo: Thomas Padilla/AP/TT
Armed police patrol in groups in Paris – over thousands of extra officers have been called in. Several voters tell TT that they fear violence in the wake of the polarized French election.
In Paris, police officers walk in groups of three or four with their weapons visible. People on the streets shout different variations of “voter”, a call to vote, according to TT’s broadcaster.
According to French newspapers, several shops in the inner city have installed wooden boards to protect their shop windows for fear of riots when the election results are announced on Sunday evening.
— I hope that hate does not win. They will set fire to everything if the RN wins, says a man in his 60s outside a polling station in the capital’s ninth district.
The 75-year-old man who had gone missing in Hudiksvall has been found dead, the police write on their website.
The man disappeared from a nursing home on Saturday afternoon. A large search effort was launched with, among others, the Home Guard.
Police suspect no crime in connection with the death. Next of kin have been notified.
Panic and riots broke out during the Rath Yatra festival in the city of Puri in India.
400 people are reported to have been injured and one person is said to be dead.
A car is on fire in Norrtull tunnel, Norra länken in the direction of Södertälje. This is what the Swedish Transport Administration writes on its website.
According to Bengt Olsson, press manager at the Swedish Transport Administration, the tunnel is closed and will be until approximately 6:30 p.m.
Several people were shot during a party in the city of Detroit in the United States, writes American media.
Two people are said to have died and eighteen have been injured, several of them seriously, writes a local news channel.
The police tell the channel that the shooter, a 22-year-old man, was himself shot in the leg and is being treated in hospital. He is not considered to be seriously injured.
The police confirm that several of the victims are undergoing surgery for their injuries.
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What happened to the British teenager who went missing in Greece?
Johan Larsson
Hello! Wondering if you might be thinking about Jay Slater who is missing on Tenriffa? Search efforts ended last week but he has yet to be found.
You haven’t written anything about the “murder” in Tollarp last Friday night?
Anonymous
We have certainly done that, we were also on site in Tollarp yesterday. You can read about it here, here and here.
Is there no positive, fun or sunny news?
Prostgatan
Of course there is!
Here you can read about Vanessa Kamga who broke a new Swedish record.
Here you can read about Jonna Jumisko who, after living a double life, is now “100% Jonna”.
Here you can come along to the Summer Meet in Västerås and see what the motorfest has to offer.
Which electoral system is the most fair, our Swedish, the English, the USA or the French. Got curious in these times.
Bengt Gustavsson
Good question Bengt! And it’s probably not something I can answer, but a big difference between Sweden and the USA is that election day here is always a holiday, which at least makes it possible for more people to vote without having to take time off (if you don’t vote early then).
Why do you only answer ridiculous questions about pacifiers and sports, while respectfully dissing heavy topics that may be a bit sensitive and difficult to answer? 😡
Lars
Hey Lars!
I wouldn’t say we do, and when it came to the issue of pacifiers, it was a recall. So quite important information for parents.
Then it is not always the case that we can let all questions go through, e.g. those that contain serious violations or name publications that we ourselves have not made.
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