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Swedish police hunt man for imam shooting

National: 26 May 12
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man in connection with the shooting of an Uzbek imam in northern Sweden in February. READ »

Woman jailed for fatal love-triangle stabbing

National: 25 May 12
A jealous Swedish woman who murdered her ex-boyfriend’s new partner in September has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. READ »

'Remember my face': murder suspect

National: 24 May 12
A man previously detained for the suspected murder of a 48-year-old man in January has had his remand period extended in Malmö on Thursday resulting in a dramatic court room scene. READ »

Man found dead in Malmö after 'noisy brawl'

National: 24 May 12
A man has been found dead in the city of Malmö, in southern Sweden, and local police suspect foul play. READ »

UK court sets Assange extradition ruling date

National: 23 May 12
The judgement in Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's continuing fight to avoid extradition to Sweden will be given on May 30th, Britain's Supreme Court said on Wednesday. READ »

Three women arrested for 'mistaken' Malmö killing

National: 23 May 12
Three women have been arrested in Malmö for their suspected involvement with the killing of a 48-year-old man who was gunned down in broad daylight on January 3rd in what police believe was a case of mistaken identity. READ »

Police share pic when chubby thief gets stuck

Society: 23 May 12
Police in Stockholm couldn't resist using their official Twitter account to publish a picture of a portly would-be thief who got wedged into a fence while trying to make a getaway after an attempted robbery. READ »

CIA made Sweden act for Wallenberg: report

Politics: 22 May 12
The American intelligence service CIA prompted an investigation by Sweden into the Wallenberg case in the 1970s, using false witness statements, according to a new Swedish book. READ »

Man convicted after stabbing girl in neck

National: 22 May 12
The 28-year-old man charged with the stabbing attack against a young girl at a Gothenburg school ground in February was convicted on Tuesday by the district court to psychiatric care. READ »

Charges filed for 'cold-blooded' farm murders

National: 21 May 12
Prosecutors on Monday formally charged two men suspected in a gruesome double murder of an elderly couple on a farm in Alingsås in southwestern Sweden last autumn. READ »

Suspected paedophile's home in arson attack

National: 20 May 12
The house of a suspected paedophile was set ablaze on the night to Sunday, in what the police believe to be an arson attack. READ »

Swedish tabloid editor guilty of weapons crimes

National: 18 May 12
The editor-in-chief of Swedish tabloid Expressen and two other journalists with the paper have been convicted of weapons crimes related to a report about how easy it is to buy guns in Malmö in southern Sweden. READ »

Gold treasure behind Wallenberg arrest: report

National: 18 May 12
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg had at least 15 kilogrammes of gold and jewellery in his car when the Red Army arrested him in 1945, according to a new book by a Swedish author. READ »

Prison for Swede who ‘kidnapped himself’

Society: 18 May 12
A 29-year-old Swede, who staged his own kidnapping to blackmail his parents into giving him money, has been convicted and sentenced to ten months in prison. READ »

School burns in Tensta teenager unrest

National: 17 May 12
Eight teenagers were arrested on Wednesday night on suspicion of offences including throwing stones at police, vandalism and setting fire to a school in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta. READ »

Two held for shooting imam in northern Sweden

National: 16 May 12
Two men have been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of an imam who remains in a coma nearly three months after being shot in the head in northern Sweden. READ »

Fake cop arrested after failed pick-up attempt

Society: 16 May 12
A man who in April pretended to be a policeman and asked a “cute” Swedish woman for her phone number was arrested by police on Tuesday for impersonating a police officer. READ »

Terror suspect 'Swede' held in Kenya was Swiss

Society: 15 May 12
The “Swedish” national who was arrested in Kenya on suspicions of having links to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabaab turned out not to be Swedish at all but Swiss. READ »

Malmö sniper suspect denies murder charges

National: 15 May 12
On Tuesday the suspected serial killer Peter Mangs denied the court’s charges of the murder of 20-year-old Trez West Persson and the attempted murder of 22-year-old Xhafer Dani. READ »

Örebro man held over spying allegations

Politics: 15 May 12
An African citizen resident in Örebro was arrested in central Sweden on Monday on the suspicion of intelligence gathering activities against Sweden's national security. READ »

Patient blackmails doc after affair turns sour

Business & Money: 15 May 12
A doctor in southern Sweden has reported a woman to the police after she blackmailed him for over one million kronor ($149,059) following their love affair. READ »

Swedish man charged for Central African slaughter

National: 15 May 12
The Swedish head of a safari company in the Central African Republic and ten of his staff have been charged with murder after 13 miners were found murdered in the northeast of the country. READ »

Swede held in Kenya over suspected terror links

National: 15 May 12
A Swedish national has been arrested in Kenya on suspicions he has links to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabaab. READ »

Malmö sniper suspect 'not a racist': lawyer

National: 14 May 12
The Swedish man accused in a deadly shooting spree against immigrants in Malmö had no motive for shooting the victims, according to his lawyer, who did his best to cast doubt on the case against his client on the opening day of the highly-anticipated murder trial. READ »

Murder trial starts for Malmö sniper suspect

National: 14 May 12
The man suspected in a series of racially-motived shootings which claimed three lives in Malmö and left the city gripped in fear appeared in court amid tight securiy on Monday for the start of his high-profile murder trial. READ »

Suspected killer shot man dead in stake out

National: 12 May 12
The Malmö police began staking out suspected serial killer Peter Mangs’ apartment two hours before he killed one of his victims, which led to his arrest. READ »

Prosecutors probe Swedish beaver hunters

Society: 11 May 12
Four men who were arrested while out hunting beaver in central Sweden at the weekend are being held in custody as prosecutors continue their hunting crimes investigation related to suspected illegal hunting of wolves. READ »

Doctor jailed for sexually molesting patients

Science & Technology: 10 May 12
A Swedish doctor has been jailed for molesting his female patients after 11 women reported him for his sexual advances during examinations. READ »

Man arrested after tying 6-year-old to fence

National: 9 May 12
A man in Uppsala, eastern Sweden, has been arrested by police after allegedly tying up his 6-year-old and locking him up in a dark room. READ »

'You are a bloody racist': suspect's mother

National: 9 May 12
The mother of suspected serial killer Peter Mangs was shocked when he was arrested for the Malmö shootings despite admitting to him having shown signs of xenophobia in the past. READ »

Warrant issued for 'tortured' US Muslim seeking asylum in Sweden

National: 9 May 12
The United States has issued an arrest warrant for an American Muslim seeking political asylum in Sweden after he publicly claimed he was imprisoned and tortured at the behest the American FBI. READ »

Suspected serial killer charged in Malmö

National: 7 May 12
Formal charges were filed in Malmö on Monday morning against a suspected serial killer who left the city gripped with fear before his arrest 18 months ago. READ »

Bat-wielding woman hid bootleg liquor store

National: 7 May 12
When police arrested a 20-year-old woman from southern Sweden for bashing up her boyfriend’s car with a baseball bat, they found a fully-functioning bootlegging operation in her house. READ »

Malmö shooter set to face murder charges

National: 6 May 12
The 40-year-old man believed to be behind a string of shootings in Malmö in southern Sweden is to be formally charged for three murders and a slew of attempted murders on Monday after spending 18 months on remand. READ »

US teen admits to aiding Lars Vilks murder plot

National: 5 May 12
A teenager of Pakistani origin resident in the US has admitted to assisting in the so-called "Jihad Jane" plot to murder Swedish artist Lars Vilks. READ »

Greenpeace protesters occupy Arctic-bound ship

Science & Technology: 3 May 12
Six Greenpeace activists have been arrested in Sweden after they attached themselves to a ship off the southern coast of Sweden in an attempt to prevent Shell’s proposed drilling for oil in the Arctic region. READ »

Men held in Sweden for trading rhino horn

National: 1 May 12
Two men are in police custody in Sweden on suspicion of having attempted to trade in the horn from the rhinoceros, which is classed as an endangered species. READ »

Woman arrested after kids' football brawl

Sport: 30 Apr 12
A woman was arrested for attacking six people on Sunday, after a boys’ football match in western Sweden ended in a brawl. READ »

Woman's fake breasts burst after knife attack

National: 30 Apr 12
A Swedish man who stabbed his girlfriend in the chest on Sunday night, causing her silicone implants to rupture and leak out, has been arrested by police. READ »

Stockholm suicide bombing trial begins

National: 30 Apr 12
Nazzedine Menni, the student who allegedly helped plan the suicide bomb attack in Stockholm in 2010, stands trial in Glasgow on Monday for what is anticipated to be a 12 week court case. READ »

Man charged with stabbing 10-year-old girl

National: 27 Apr 12
A 28-year-old Swedish man who stabbed a ten-year-old girl in the throat in Gothenburg in February has been formally charged with attempted murder. READ »

Second suspect arrested in teen stabbing case

National: 26 Apr 12
Another person has been arrested in the investigation of the killing in southern Sweden on Monday, where a 19-year-old woman was stabbed to death. READ »

Swede wins Google's grand photo prize

Society: 26 Apr 12
A 24-year-old Swedish student has beaten almost 20,000 competitors to take home the grand prize in the Google Photography competition for 2012. READ »

Swedish safari guide held by police in Africa

National: 26 Apr 12
The Swedish head of a safari company in the Central African Republic and ten of his staff have been arrested after 13 miners were found murdered in the northeast of the country, local police said Wednesday. READ »

Boy, 16, suspected of stabbing sister to death

National: 25 Apr 12
A 19-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in her apartment in southern Sweden on Monday night and police have since arrested her 16-year-old younger brother on suspicion of murder. READ »

Elite Swedish school rocked by hazing scandal

Education: 24 Apr 12
Five students from the same prestigious Swedish boarding school once attended by King Carl XVI Gustaf have been arrested on suspicions of violently beating a fellow student in a long-running hazing campaign. READ »

Teen boys arrested after filming alleged gang rape

National: 24 Apr 12
Stockholm police have arrested several teenage boys suspected of gang raping an underage girl and filming the act. READ »

New names on Sweden’s ‘most wanted’ list

National: 23 Apr 12
Two new names have recently been added to Sweden’s “most wanted” list and authorities are hoping that closer international cooperation may aid the arrest of some 300 criminals believed to be at large abroad. READ »

Telia Sonera may lose Stockholm as customer

Business & Money: 22 Apr 12
Stockholm municipality is currently a Telia Sonera customer, but has threatened to change providers following the revelation of Telia Sonera’s cooperation with several dictatorships, losing the company some 40,000 subscriptions. READ »

Police may have pics of Malmö teen's murderer

National: 21 Apr 12
The person who murdered 15-year-old Ardiwan Samir in Malmö on New Year’s Eve may have been caught on camera near the crime scene. READ »

Two arrested for asylum home male gang rape

National: 20 Apr 12
Police on Wednesday arrested two men in connection to a suspected gang rape of a 20-year-old man, carried out by three other men, in a home for asylum seekers in northern Sweden. READ »

Swedish police raid flat, free abducted puppy

Society: 20 Apr 12
Police officers in southeastern Sweden raided a Norrköping flat, freeing a Chihuahua puppy, which had been kidnapped by potential buyers last week. READ »

'Tortured' US Muslim seeks asylum in Sweden

National: 19 Apr 12
A US citizen who claims he was imprisoned and tortured at the behest the American FBI is seeking political asylum in Sweden. READ »

Police identify dumped body as missing Marina

National: 18 Apr 12
Human remains discovered in a nature reserve in western Sweden on Saturday are those of a woman who disappeared from her home almost two years ago, local police confirmed on Wednesday. READ »

TeliaSonera 'profits by helping dictators spy'

Science & Technology: 18 Apr 12
TeliaSonera, the successor to Sweden's state telecom monopoly, has given state security services access to systems it operates in the former Soviet Union in order to secure lucrative contracts there, according to Swedish media reports. READ »

Police arrest three over slain Malmö teen

National: 16 Apr 12
Three teenagers have been arrested in Malmö under suspicion of the murder of 15-year-old Ardiwan Samir in the Rosengård district on New Year’s Eve. READ »

Bones find linked to missing woman mystery

National: 15 Apr 12
Volunteers searching for the remains of 31-year-old Marina Johansson, who went missing in July 2010, on Saturday located bones which police believe to have come from a human body. READ »

Swedish terror suspects plead 'not guilty'

National: 13 Apr 12
The four men from Sweden involved in the planned terror attack against the Danish Jyllands-Posten daily denied all charges when the trial finally begun in Copenhagen on Friday. READ »

Politician arrested after sex with disabled woman

National: 12 Apr 12
A local politician in northern Sweden, working as a disabled transporation driver, has been arrested after he was caught by police while molesting a disabled woman in his vehicle. READ »

Man invites cop to 'do a line' of cocaine

National: 10 Apr 12
A man's happy-go-lucky night at a Stockholm pub took an abrupt turn for the worse on Saturday when he offered cocaine to a new-found friend that turned out to be an off-duty police officer. READ »

'Secret judges' in Danish terror case: Swede's rep

National: 8 Apr 12
In a move that has drawn criticism from the lawyer of a Swedish suspect, Danish judicial authorities have moved to classify the names of judges and courts that have played a key role in a terrorism case due to go to trial this Friday. READ »

Bildt bites back over 'lies' in Bosnia row

Politics: 8 Apr 12
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt fumed on Saturday over what he described as the 'lies' spread by a French journalist who criticized his involvement in a war memorial ceremony in Sarajevo. READ »

Trio charged in wealthy Swede's abduction

National: 5 Apr 12
Three people were charged on Thursday with drugging and kidnapping a 25-year-old student from a wealthy Swedish family and holding him prisoner for more than a week in what one of the suspects said was a "prank". READ »

Sword-swinging feline fan in cat custody coup

National: 5 Apr 12
A cat-sitter in Sweden was recently arrested by police after threatening the owner with a samurai sword when he wanted to retrieve his pets. READ »

Mum fined for giving toddler son cigs and beer

National: 2 Apr 12
A Swedish mother who encouraged her three-year-old son to drink beer and filmed as he was given cigarettes was convicted on Monday and fined for her actions. READ »

Swedes held for NATO HQ break-in attempt

Politics: 2 Apr 12
More than two dozen Swedes were arrested in Brussels on Sunday for attempting to break into NATO headquarters along with hundreds of other peace activists. READ »

Cop fined for unlawful arrest of 'cocky' man

National: 2 Apr 12
A police officer has been convicted of professional misconduct after forcing a man described as "cocky" into a police vehicle in central Stockholm and dropping him on the outskirts of town even though he had broken no laws. READ »

Man held for setting his wife on fire

National: 2 Apr 12
A man in Malmö in southern Sweden is suspected of having set his wife on fire following a domestic dispute stemming from her request for a divorce. READ »

Man arrested after brutal axe attack

National: 1 Apr 12
A 42-year-old man was arrested on Saturday evening on suspicion of attempted murder after hitting another man in the head with an axe in Flen in eastern Sweden. READ »

Swede released after West Bank demo arrest

Politics: 31 Mar 12
A 20-year-old man from Kalmar has been conditionally released from Israeli custody after being detained on Friday while acting as an observer at demonstrations outside Ramallah in the West Bank. READ »

Pot growers plead not guilty for 'organic' weed

Society: 30 Mar 12
Cannabis growers claiming they're innocent as their product is "organic", men biting through prison beds, and nazi t-shirts - here are some amusing tidbits from the past week in Sweden. READ »

UK court halts murder suspect extradition

National: 30 Mar 12
The extradition of businessman Shrien Dewani, wanted in connection with the murder of his Swedish wife Anni on their honeymoon in South Africa in 2010, was temporarily halted by a British court on Friday. READ »

‘Llama-man’ jailed after nutmeg induced frenzy

National: 30 Mar 12
A 28-year-old man from eastern Sweden, previously in trouble for his “llama-like” spitting in strangers’ faces, went amok while in hospital last summer, in an alleged nutmeg induced rage. READ »

Bigamist Swede prompts jealous wife drama

National: 28 Mar 12
A woman from southern Sweden has been arrested on suspicion of preparation of murder after being apprehended by officers on the way to her bigamist husband’s first wife, armed with a knife. READ »

Man arrested after bomb threat shuts train station

National: 27 Mar 12
A man in his early twenties has been arrested on suspicion of calling in a bomb threat on Monday that prompted the evacuation of the central train station in Östersund, northern Sweden. READ »

Eight charged in 'biggest ever' Swedish drug bust

National: 26 Mar 12
Eight people have been charged for their part in the “biggest ever” cocaine ring in Sweden, in which several tons of cocaine at a value of 4.5 billion kronor ($665 million) had been imported from Colombia. READ »

Wanted man takes sleeping couple hostage

National: 26 Mar 12
A wanted man took an unsuspecting couple hostage late Sunday night after entering their flat as they slept in an attempt to evade capture by police in the west Stockholm suburb of Bromma. READ »

Suspected gang rape in city park

National: 24 Mar 12
A 24-year-old woman walking home through a town in northern Sweden was dragged into a city park by several men and raped in the early hours of Saturday morning. READ »

'Give 'em Viagra': politician's joke flops

Society: 23 Mar 12
Another week of unusual news in Sweden, featuring Viagra, sheep heads, smelly guinea-pigs and octogenarians on the "run", we present a light-hearted look at Swedish news that didn't make the front page. READ »

Man charged with abuse of disabled students

National: 22 Mar 12
A teaching assistant who allegedly sexually molested students 15 times at a school for children with learning difficulties in Sweden was charged on Wednesday. READ »

Mother convicted of drowning young sons

National: 19 Mar 12
The 31-year-old mother who pushed her two young sons into a lake in central Sweden and watched them drown was convicted of murder on Monday and sentenced to closed psychiatric care and deportation. READ »

Begrimed baguettes cause bakery battle

National: 16 Mar 12
It’s News in Brief Friday again, where we’ve captured some of the shorter tales that caught our attention – this week including a ski race around the Stockholm castle, begrimed baguettes, bungling bird baiters, and the anniversary of a rather unusual murder. READ »

Man with machete leaves woman, dog bloodied

National: 16 Mar 12
A machete-wielding man went on a wild rampage in northern Sweden on Thursday, slashing a woman in the face before hijacking a minivan filled with students. He also reportedly sliced a dog, left in the stolen van. READ »

Unknown Swedish prisoner may provide clues to Wallenberg mystery

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Mar 12
A so far unidentified Swedish prisoner in Soviet captivity in the 1950s may provide historians with more clues as to the fate of missing WWII diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, argues historian Susanne Berger. READ »

'Starting pistol' sparked wild Stockholm shootout

National: 14 Mar 12
A jewellery store robber armed with nothing more than a starting pistol prompted police to fire at least a dozen gun shots in central Stockholm last week, a prosecutor said Tuesday. READ »

Thief hijacks cop car, steals back own vehicle

National: 13 Mar 12
A suspected petrol thief led police in western Sweden on an unexpected chase after he hijacked a police car before managing to steal back his own vehicle from a police impound lot. READ »

'Cowboy' police slammed after Stockholm shootout

National: 13 Mar 12
Police who opened fire on robbers following a jewellery shop burglary in Stockholm last week have been branded as “American cowboys” by a criminologist after it came to light that the assailants never fired a single shot. READ »

District court 'forgot' child porn crime case

National: 12 Mar 12
A 34-year-old man under suspicion of aggravated child porn offences after police confiscated 13,000 child porn images from his computer was never called to trial, as the court in southern Sweden forgot about him. READ »

Teen girls held captive in prostitution ring

National: 10 Mar 12
Swedish police uncovered what appears to be a prostitution ring in a suburb south of Stockholm, arresting two men on suspicion of kidnapping. READ »

Gang of kids suspected of Uppsala burglary wave

National: 9 Mar 12
Children as young as 11 have been apprehended following a series of house burglaries in eastern Sweden, which led the flabbergasted police to a youth gang using very young members to commit crimes. READ »

Sword-wielding Swedish teen attacks couple in car

National: 8 Mar 12
A 19-year-old man in southeastern Sweden went on a rampage with a sword on Wednesday night, shattering the windscreen of a flabbergasted young couple’s car. READ »

Samurai sword stabber sees sentence sliced

National: 7 Mar 12
A man who attacked his girlfriend with a samurai sword in northern Sweden last year has had his sentence reduced by the Swedish Supreme Court. READ »

Midday shootout rattles central Stockholm

National: 7 Mar 12
Police in Stockholm exchanged gunfire with a gang of thieves who robbed a jewellery store in central Stockholm on Tuesday afternoon, sending shocked bystanders rushing for cover. READ »

Gun-wielding threats no grounds for eviction

Society: 6 Mar 12
A Swedish man who responded to his neighbours’ requests that he turn his music down by pointing a gun at them has been allowed to stay in the building, despite the potential exodus of the other residents. READ »

Man, woman, dog shot dead on Swedish farm

National: 6 Mar 12
A man and a woman were found shot dead on a farm in Dalarna in central Sweden on Tuesday morning following reports of gunfire in the area. A dog was also found dead from shot wounds. READ »

Man found dead in Gothenburg eatery

National: 6 Mar 12
A man was found dead inside a Gothenburg café on Monday night, yet police, who have launched a murder investigation, are still unaware of the victim's identity. READ »

Swede kills bouncer in Norway bar brawl

National: 5 Mar 12
A Swedish man has been arrested after injuring a female security guard so badly in a Norway bar fight during the weekend that she was pronounced dead on Sunday evening. READ »

Drowsy thieves nabbed sleeping in stolen car

National: 5 Mar 12
When police in southern Sweden went to check up on a car, parked carelessly near a perilous crossing, they found the two car thieves fast asleep in the stolen vehicle. READ »

Stockholm shaken by three weekend killings

National: 5 Mar 12
Three people are dead and four people in custody after three suspected murders took place in and around Stockholm at the weekend. READ »

Police 'not told' of stabbing suspect's call

National: 3 Mar 12
The 28-year-old man suspected of stabbing a 10-year-old girl in the throat at a Gothenburg school called and identified himself to emergency services immediately after the attack, but the information wasn't forwarded to the police. READ »


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