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Rikskriminalen

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Addicts die after smoking pain-relief patches

National: 18 Jan 12
After several deaths in southern Sweden have been linked to the use the drug fentanyl, a pain-relief patch meant for cancer patients, local police are now calling it the “most serious drug problem” in the area. READ »

One man dead after new Malmö shooting

National: 3 Jan 12
Yet another man has been gunned down on the streets of Malmö, making him the fifth in just over a month to be shot dead in Sweden's third largest city. READ »

Rise in shootings puts strain on Malmö police

National: 2 Jan 12
After the latest incident where a 15-year-old died from shot wounds to the head and chest on Sunday evening, police say that the situation in Malmö is “strained” due to a steady rise in violence in the area. READ »

Five year sentence for Swede's child sex crimes

National: 27 Dec 11
A 45-year-old Swedish man whose computer contained more than half a million images of child pornography, including some featuring infants, has been jailed for five years for child pornography crimes and child rape. READ »

'Change your passwords when you change boyfriends': prosecutor

Science & Technology: 8 Nov 11
An increasing number of unauthorized data access cases are being reported in Sweden, not in the least due to spurned IT-savvy exes wanting to keep tabs on their former partners. READ »

Police slammed for 'slow' response

National: 28 Oct 11
Swedish police officers' slow response to the spectacular helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm in 2009 has come in for stinging criticism from the National Swedish Police Board’s own inspection unit. READ »

Two Swedes in global paedophile ring

National: 4 Aug 11
Two Swedish suspects have been identified as part of a major global paedophile ring spanning 14 countries which has been exposed by the US police. READ »

Man raped child 75 times, avoids prison

National: 1 Aug 11
A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to psychiatric care after having been convicted for raping three young children, filming the attacks and publishing the material on the internet. READ »

No charges despite new child porn law

National: 22 Jul 11
A year after the introduction of a new law in Sweden banning the viewing of child porn, not a single charge has been filed with police admitting that they can't actively look for transgressors, according to a report in Swedish media. READ »

130 people say they killed Olof Palme: police

National: 21 Feb 11
With the 25th anniversary of the assassination of former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme a week away, Swedish police revealed on Monday that 130 people have confessed to the killing. READ »

Malmö shooter remanded again as charges mount

National: 21 Dec 10
The 38-year-old suspected Malmö serial shooter had been ordered to remain in custody as suspicions against him widened to three murders and 10 attempted murders. READ »

International warrant for Assange 'on its way'

Science & Technology: 19 Nov 10
A Swedish prosecutor on Friday submitted an application for an international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. READ »

Newspaper bomb threat traced to police

National: 1 Nov 10
A bomb threat which emptied the offices of a newspaper in Luleå in northern Sweden last week has been traced to the town’s police headquarters. READ »

Four Swedish women still held in child porn sting

National: 22 Oct 10
Police in Sweden are still holding four of the 20 women arrested on Wednesday in a series of raids directed at a suspected child pornography network. READ »

Police arrest 20 women in child porn raids

National: 20 Oct 10
Swedish police on Wednesday raided a series of locations across the country, arresting 23 people on suspicion of serious child pornography offences. Twenty of the suspects were women, described by the police as 'very unusual'. READ »

Malmö shooter targeting immigrants: police

National: 20 Oct 10
Police in Malmö now believe that a more than a dozen unexplained shootings which have taken place in the city this year may be connected. All the victims are believed to have immigrant backgrounds. READ »

Swedish man dies in live 'cyber suicide' broadcast

Science & Technology: 12 Oct 10
A Swedish man hanged himself during a live broadcast on the internet on Monday morning, a phenomenon that police described as rare in Sweden. READ »

Amateur photographers aid police investigations

National: 16 Aug 10
The police are receiving an increasing amount of help in their investigations from photographs and film captured by bystanders who either hand in their material or publish it on online first. READ »

Swedish paedophile to remain in Cambodian jail

National: 13 Aug 10
The 63-year-old Swedish man convicted for sexually assaulting three boys in Cambodia, will serve his 6.5 year sentence after a Cambodian court confirmed his conviction in the face of claims that he had paid $11,000 in bribes. READ »

Paedophile boasts of bribing himself free

National: 11 Aug 10
A 63-year-old Swedish man convicted and sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for sexually assaulting three boys in Cambodia, believes that he will soon be a free man after handing over $11,000 in bribes. READ »

Man arrested over Kosovo war crimes

National: 7 Apr 10
A man has been arrested in western Sweden on suspicion of aggravated war crimes, with an alternative charge of murder, in connection with the Kosovo war in 1999. READ »

Two Swedes caught in Thai child sex sting

National: 12 May 09
Police in Thailand working together with their Swedish counterparts have arrested two Swedes suspected of sex crimes involving children. READ »

Swede held for child sex crimes in Cambodia

National: 8 May 09
A Swedish man in his sixties has been arrested in Cambodia on suspicions of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy. READ »

Mystery glass in chicken not sabotage

National: 18 Apr 09
Police investigators have ruled out sabotage in several cases where bits of glass were discovered in frozen poultry in Sweden. READ »

Säpo to investigate chicken glass mystery

National: 1 Apr 09
Sweden's security police (Säpo) have been called in to assist national police in the investigation into a slew of recent incidents involving glass in chicken products. Meanwhile chicken is being taken off menus across Sweden. READ »

Hells Angels leader loses sickness benefits

National: 22 Mar 09
A prominent Swedish member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang will have to survive without the sickness benefits he has been receiving for the past 10 years as he was shown to have hidden income sources. READ »

New police taskforces to tackle organized crime

National: 15 Jan 09
In an effort to combat the spread of organized crime in Sweden, police plan to create nine nationally-led taskforces to fight criminal gangs, drug smugglers, and other gang-related criminals. READ »

Warhol paintings stolen in Stockholm art heist

National: 18 Jul 08
Paintings by Andy Warhol were among those stolen from the Lasse Åberg museum near Stockholm on Friday morning. READ »

Criminology professor resigns over police 'farce'

National: 18 May 08
Criminologist Leif G W Persson has resigned his post with the National Police Board. He says he is tired of the continual depletion of the national police force. READ »

Eklund tried to wipe out DNA evidence

National: 22 Apr 08
Engla Juncosa Höglund's killer is believed to have tried to cover his tracks by setting fire to the girl's body. READ »

Police investigate possible honour killing in Karlstad

National: 9 May 07
A 16-year-old girl who fell to her death from the fourth floor of an apartment block in Karlstad may have been the victim of an honour killing. READ »

Suspected people smugglers arrested

National: 27 Mar 07
Eighteen suspected people smugglers have been arrested in two separate investigations. Those arrested on Tuesday are suspected of involvement in smuggling people to Sweden from Iraq. READ »

Over 100 Swedish children confirmed missing

National: 5 Jan 05
Police announce that over 100 of more than 700 Swedes confirmed missing are under the age of 20. And with another 1201 Swedes whose whereabouts are unknown, the country comes to a standstill for three minutes silence in honour of all of the victims of Asia's tsunami catastrophe. READ »


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"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »

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Swedish mother gave 3-year-old cigs and beer
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A duvet cover designed to look like cardboard boxes, on sale at a luxury department store in Stockholm, has some arguing that the city's homeless are being exploited for profit.
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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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