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Madrid court remands Swede on terror charges
Published: 16 Feb 13 08:56 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/46228/20130216/
A 65-year-old Swedish man was on Friday remanded into custody by a Madrid court on suspicion of terror crimes connected to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PPK).
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The Swede and five others were arrested in Spain on Tuesday in a series of coordinated raids which also saw 16 arrested in France.
Those detained are all suspected of belonging to the terrorist-classified Kurdish separatist movement PKK. They are suspected of having coerced other Kurds into paying a so-called "revolution tax".
According to the charges, the collections are intended to have been used to finance the purchase of explosives and weapons for terrorist activities in Turkey.
In the course of the raids, police seized weapons and cash.
According to news agency Europa Press the Madrid court released three of the six arrested in Spain, although they remain under suspicion and are not permitted to leave the country.
The 65-year-old Swede, who is reported to be resident in the south of Sweden, is receiving assistance from the embassy and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The PPK is a Kurdish organization founded in 1984 that fights against the Turkish state for an autonomous Kurdistan, as well as for the rights of Kurds in Turkey.
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The Swedish state confers citizenship, it is not an opinion up for discussion.
The rule is: if the headline says "Swede," not. If it says "man," Swede.
He is Swedish you say, so if I go to Japan and become a citizen without a drop of Japanese blood I am just as Japanese as the Japanese people who have lived there for thousands of years?
I am Swedish and the only time I "share blood" is when I donate it.
He may be a "Swede" under the country's law but he will never, NEVER possess Viking blood or hertatige!
If you have a swedish citizenship and nationality then you are a Swede, but if you don`t have a swedish ethnicity you will never be an ethnic Swede. Is that so upsetting to the political correct? This terrorist will never be an ethnic Swede.
Nobody argued he was an ethnic Swede.