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Fingerprints

The following articles have been tagged with "Fingerprints":

Arboga child murderer seeks right to appeal

National: 3 Jan 12
Christine Schürrer, the German woman sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 3-year-old boy and his 1-year-old sister in 2008, is now applying for leave to appeal her verdict to the Supreme Court. READ »

Police child porn sting snags twelve Swedes

National: 19 Oct 11
Twelwe people were arrested in Sweden early on Wednesday morning suspected of spreading child pornography, according to the Swedish National Bureau of Investigation. READ »

Norwegian man jailed for kidnapping rich Swedes

National: 22 Jun 11
A 45-year-old Norwegian man on trial for kidnapping, robbing and extorting several million kronor from wealthy Swedes was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Tuesday. READ »

Foreign students grapple with new fingerprint rule

Education: 22 Jun 11
New rules requiring biometric information from non-Europeans wishing to study in Sweden is causing problems for would-be foreign students, according to Swedish universities. READ »

'Dad told me to grab the knife': convicted son

National: 14 Jun 11
The re-trial of the so-called Högsby 'honour killing' continued on Tuesday with testimony from the 23-year-old son who claims his parents made him take the blame for murdering his sister's boyfriend. READ »

Sweden seeks to cut crime with shared DNA

National: 24 Mar 11
The Swedish government has proposed new legislation that would enable the country’s law enforcement agencies to sift through the DNA registers, fingerprint archives and vehicle databases of several other European countries. READ »

Sweden green lights 'fingerprint time clocks'

Business & Money: 17 Nov 10
Swedish employers have been authorised to use fingerprints to track worker’s job attendance following a review of the practice by the Data Inspection Board. READ »

'Missing' footballers prompt new entry rules

Society: 21 Jul 09
The disappearance of five Tanzanian youth footballers has prompted the Swedish Migration Board to tighten entry requirements for non-Europeans playing in the Gothia Cup. READ »

Two men found dead in Stockholm apartment

National: 14 Mar 09
Police in Stockholm are on Saturday continuing to search for those responsible for a double murder on Södermalm on Friday evening. READ »

Arboga murderer appeals conviction a second time

National: 13 Mar 09
Christine Schürrer, the German woman found guilty of murdering two young children in Arboga last year, has appealed her life sentence. READ »

Swedish court to rule on school lunch fingerprinting

Education: 20 Oct 08
Hungry students at a school in Västerbotten in northern Sweden must give a fingerprint in order to eat in the school’s cafeteria, a practice which bothers data privacy officials seeking to ban the measure. READ »

Arboga murderer gets life in prison

National: 14 Oct 08
Christine Schürrer, the German woman found guilty of murdering two children in Arboga, has been sentenced to life in prison. READ »

Air passengers asked to show the finger

Travel: 29 Jan 08
Passengers on SAS flights from Stockholm and Gothenburg will in future have to give their fingerprints when checking in bags, the airline says. READ »

Pupils 'should not be forced to give fingerprints'

National: 25 Aug 07
Forcing schoolchildren to give fingerprints in order to get their lunches should be forbidden, the Swedish Data Inspection Board has said. READ »

Cocaine found in teacher's fridge

National: 15 Aug 07
A physical education teacher in Norrköping has been prosecuted after police found a large quantity of cocaine in his home. READ »

'Palme gun' too rusty to provide answers

National: 28 May 07
Tests on a revolver which had been linked to the 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme have not been able to confirm whether it was the murder weapon, police have said. READ »

Swedish passports available "for 1,000 dollars"

Society: 3 Mar 07
Swedish passports are widely available on the black market with trading so systematic that at least twice a week the Swedish police discover several passports linked to the same personal identity number. READ »

Man gets life for murder of student

National: 27 Feb 07
A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the 'ruthless and cruel' murder of a student north of Stockholm late last year. READ »

Man eaten by his own dogs

National: 12 Feb 07
A young man who died in his Malmö apartment was eaten by his own Staffordshire Bull Terriers. Friends who found him were unable to recognize his body. READ »

Wine thieves clear out world-famous cellar

National: 21 Aug 06
A Swedish restaurant world famous for its French wine collection has had its entire stock stolen. Thieves made away with more than 600 bottles worth over 3.5 million kronor. READ »

Border guards 'should take child fingerprints'

Society: 7 Aug 06
Sweden is supporting a European proposal that would see border guards take the fingerprints of asylum seekers as young as six. READ »

SAS to demand fingerprints from flyers

National: 27 Jun 06
The Scandinavian airline says all passengers will have to give their fingerprints when they check in on domestic routes, as part of heightened security measures. READ »

Raft man identitified by mother

National: 18 May 06
The mystery nears its solution: a previously unidentified man rescued while drifting on a makeshift raft in the North Sea was identified when his mother in the Czech Republic recognised him from photographs. READ »

Fingerprints reveal raft man is Czech

National: 16 May 06
The man who was found floating on a raft in the middle of the Skagerrak Strait in April is a Czech citizen, born in 1957. So the plot thins, but he still won't say how ended up so far out at sea. READ »

Raft man lived in London

National: 2 May 06
The mysterious raft man - found floating on a raft in the middle of the Skagerrak Strait between Sweden and Denmark ten days ago - has been living in London for the last two years, it has emerged. READ »

No bomb in plane robbers' bag

National: 9 Mar 06
A bag left by the armed men who stole currency from a plane at Gothenburg airport did not contain a bomb, prosecutors have said. Police are still questioning a 37-year old man about the raid. READ »

Fewer seeking Swedish asylum

Society: 29 Apr 05
The number of people seeking asylum in Sweden is expected to fall by almost 20% this year, according to the latest forecast from the Swedish Board of Migration. READ »

Bad DNA samples hinder indentification of tsunami dead

National: 26 Apr 05
The identification of people killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster last December has been slowed by the poor condition of DNA samples sent to labs around the world for analysis, says a Swedish scientist. READ »

Swedish tsunami children ?may never be identified?

National: 1 Apr 05
Problems with DNA analysis mean that the bodies 197 Swedes presumed dead in Thailand -many of them children - might not be returned to Sweden. Meanwhile, the official Swedish death toll rises to 347. READ »

Dismembered body found on ice

National: 31 Mar 05
Parts of the body of a middle aged woman have been found on frozen water near Stockholm's old town. Police say that the woman, whose torso is missing, had been subjected to extreme violence before she died. READ »

Suspected book thief found dead

National: 13 Dec 04
Investigators finally work their way into an apartment destroyed by a massive explosion last Wednesday - and inside they find the body of a man suspected of stealing rare books from the Royal library. READ »


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Swedish word of the day

fin

adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.



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