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Serneke Sweden files for bankruptcy

The real estate company Serneke Sverige AB has filed for bankruptcy at the Gothenburg District Court.

The company was acquired last year by the German holding company Mutares, which hoped to secure Serneke Sweden’s position as a leading player in the contracting sector in Sweden.

However, the financial situation for Serneke Sweden has deteriorated significantly during the year and the company has not succeeded in securing the short-term liquidity required to continue operations.

“The problems that emerged during our investigations after we took over control of the company have been so significant that we unfortunately see no other solution than to file for Serneke Sweden’s bankruptcy,” says Serneke’s board chairman Miikka Suominen in a press release.

Trump: Will lift the moratorium on oil drilling

Now Donald Trump is giving a speech.

– We will drill, he says.

Details: Green light for yard sale

The EU Commission will let Sweden’s government go ahead with allowing small-scale farm sales of alcoholic beverages.

This is stated by sources SVT.

The Swedish government wants to allow the sale from 1 June 2025.

If the commission gives the green light, the government can proceed with the legislation.

Busch on the insta tab: The human factor

Sweden’s Minister of Energy and Industry Ebba Busch (KD) spread incorrect information on her Instagram about the new controversial law on who can testify anonymously in court.

Now the KD leader comments on the miss in an interview in TV4.

– I think everyone understands that I don’t sit and make partial pictures myself, but I am responsible for what is published on my social channels.

– It was an incorrect partial picture due to the human factor and I am not the one who hangs people out. That’s the kind of thing that sometimes happens.

Climate activists are freed – occupied peat pits

22 climate activists are freed after occupying the Flymossen peat quarry in Bredaryd in Värnamo municipality in the summer of 2023.

The activists – who belong to the network Restore Wetlands – filled the ditches and pitched tents at the peat extraction site, among other things.

They were suspected of gross illegal trespass and damage. But the district court in Jönköping has rejected the prosecution because, according to the court, the penalty provision for illegal trespass cannot cover such a vast area as Flymossen.

According to the court, the defendants have also not been guilty of damage or any other criminal act covered by the indictment.

Mette Fredriksen: Greenland is not for sale

Donald Trump has said that he wants Greenland to become American – something that met with outraged feelings from the Danish side.

On Tuesday, when Donald Trump’s son is visiting the Danish island, the country’s Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen chooses to dismiss all ideas that Greenland would change hands.

– Greenland is not for sale, she tells TV2.

She urges everyone to respect that the Greenlanders are a people, and that Greenland is their country.

– It is important that Greenland’s future is defined by the Greenlanders and not by the rest of us, says Mette Frederiksen.

Man charged – stopped with knives outside Haga Castle

A knifeman who was arrested outside Crown Princess Viktoria’s residence Haga Castle in Solna is now being prosecuted.

He was arrested outside the castle on December 4 and has been in custody since then.

At the time of his arrest, he was carrying several items, including knives.

The preliminary investigation is led by Säpo.

A full-sized football hall has collapsed

The large football hall Airdome in Karlstad has collapsed, reports say NWT.

The reason is the snow storm of the last day.

The roof consists of a tent cloth, which in the end could not hold up the weight of the snow and collapsed.

– It has been a crisis for the past 24 hours, says Karlstad Football CEO Thomas Andersson to the newspaper.

Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen

Former leader of the French National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, is dead. The family told AFP.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was a controversial French politician. He founded the nationalist party National Fronten in 1972 and led it until 2011.

In the same year, daughter Marine Le Pen took over the party leadership post.

Jean-Marie was expelled from the National Front in 2015, after a series of heavily criticized statements. Among other things, he has called the Holocaust during the Second World War a “detail”, and called on France to cooperate with Russia to save the “white world”.

Employee has fallen several meters at industry

The police are on the scene at an industry in Vimmerby due to a suspected workplace accident.

An employee at the industry must have fallen several meters. The person has been taken to hospital by ambulance. The extent of the damage is unclear.

The police are taking investigative measures at the scene and talking to witnesses.

Task: Anchor found on the bottom of the Baltic Sea

The anchor suspected of destroying cables on the bottom of the Gulf of Finland has been found and salvaged, according to the Finnish broadcasting company EPN.

According to this information, the anchor must have been salvaged by the Swedish submarine rescue vessel HMS Belos.

The vessel Eagle S is suspected of having dragged the anchor on the seabed and thus damaged several important underwater cables, whereupon the anchor was said to have dislodged and disappeared into the sea. Finnish authorities said on Friday that they had identified several places where the anchor was suspected to be.

Gun violence in Sweden is decreasing

The fatal gun violence in Sweden is decreasing for the second year in a row, the police announce.

In 2023, the number of people killed in shootings was 54 and the number of injured 108 – in 2024, the number of deaths was 44 and 57 injured, respectively.

– Our assessment is that the reduction is due to our increased ability to prevent and ward off acts of violence, says Johan Olsson, head of the police’s national operational department, Noa.

But even though the number of fatal shootings has decreased, the level of conflict is still high in Sweden.

– We see this not least through the recruitment that takes place in digital environments, says Johan Olsson.

Three are charged with the bag murder

Three people are now charged with the murder of Ako.

He was found dead in a bag on Värmdö in March last year.

A 25-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man are charged with murder and grave breach of privacy.

– The crime victim is a man who had a relationship with the woman. We allege that he comes to the woman’s home and is beaten and stabbed there, and that he dies as a result of a deep cut to his throat, says Cecilia Tepper, senior prosecutor in Stockholm.

After Ako was murdered, according to prosecutors, he was bagged and put in a bag.

A 26-year-old man, the woman’s brother, is also charged with aggravated protection of a criminal. According to the suspects, he is said to have helped the murder suspects to flee the country.

At least 95 dead in earthquake in Tibet

At least 95 people are now reported to have died in the earthquake in Tibet, Chinese state media reports.

At least 130 people are said to be injured.

According to China’s geological agency CENC, the earthquake that occurred on the night of Tuesday measured a magnitude of 6.8.