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'Vodka-mobile' selling booze to Swedish kids

Society: 10 Feb 12
Police in Stockholm are looking to beef up efforts to put the brakes on a “vodka-mobile” that delivers hard liquor to school children in the Swedish capital who place their orders via text message. READ »

10-year-old girl stabbed in the throat at school

National: 6 Feb 12
A 10-year-old girl had her throat slashed with a knife outside a school in Gothenburg in western Sweden on Monday morning, according to police. READ »

Police close entrance to Malmö hospital

National: 3 Feb 12
Police in Malmö have taken the unusual decision to cordon off the entrance to the accident and emergency department at the Skåne University Hospital following the latest in a rising number of fatal shooting incidents. READ »

New gun law proposal frustrates Swedish police

Society: 20 Jan 12
Swedish police are disappointed after a government proposal suggesting a tightening of legislation still failed to grant police the ability to wire tap suspects in cases of less serious weapons crimes. READ »

'Serial rapist' spreads fear in Lund

National: 14 Jan 12
A number of attempted rapes against girls, some as young as ten, have spread fear in Lund, in southern Sweden, and police now believe a single perpetrator lies behind all of the attacks. READ »

Malmö dwellers forced to deliver their own mail

National: 13 Jan 12
As postal workers assigned to the Malmö district of Seved feel too threatened to carry out their duties, the residents themselves will now have to deliver their own post. READ »

Iraqis in look-alike Swedish passport scam

National: 11 Jan 12
Two men, aged 38 and 30, have been arrested in Malmö on suspicions of smuggling Iraqi citizens into Sweden using other people's Swedish passports. READ »

Gun laws may be tightened: minister

National: 4 Jan 12
Sweden's minister for justice, Beatrice Ask, says Swedish weapons laws will be looked over, after recent events in Malmö where five people have been shot within the space of a month. READ »

Charges for Sweden's 'biggest-ever' coke bust

National: 29 Dec 11
Four men were charged on Thursday in connection with Sweden's “biggest-ever” cocaine bust that netted drugs worth an estimated 145 million kronor ($21 million). READ »

Court orders Vilks plot suspects released

National: 28 Dec 11
The three men accused of planning to murder controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks in a foiled attack in Gothenburg on September were released on Wednesday shortly after the conclusion of their trial. READ »

Rail service's hidden cameras 'illegal': agency

National: 20 Dec 11
Sweden's national rail service, SJ, has been slammed by the Data Inspection Board after it was discovered the company was filming staff with hidden cameras to stop widespread pilfering on trains. READ »

'No evidence bomber belonged to al-Qaeda'

National: 7 Dec 11
An unexploded bomb was left in the car of Stockholm suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab, investigators said on Wednesday, adding that there was nothing to indicate he was a member of the al-Qaeda terror network. READ »

Gang helping shoppers steal from Ikea

Business & Money: 6 Dec 11
A criminal gang is helping customers shoplift items from an Ikea store in northern Sweden by offering to carry items out the store's main entrance, allowing shoppers to bypass cashiers. READ »

Police 'didn't want' pre-bomb video footage

National: 6 Dec 11
Swedish police weren't interested in a shop owner's offer of surveillance camera footage taken in the weeks before Taimour Abdulwahab blew himself up in central Stockholm last December. The footage has since been erased. READ »

Assange cleared to continue extradition fight

National: 5 Dec 11
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been cleared to apply to the UK Supreme Court in an attempt to block his extradition to Sweden over rape allegations, a London court ruled on Monday. READ »

Crucial UK extradition hearing for Assange

National: 4 Dec 11
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange hopes to avoid extradition to Sweden by having his case heard by Britain's High Court, the final card in a legal battle that has lasted almost a year. READ »

Bildt: budget rules 'must be obeyed'

Business & Money: 29 Nov 11
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on Monday defended a European single market but said that stricter budget supervision and regulation by Brussels will only work if already existing rules are adhered to. READ »

Bomb threat closes Stockholm shopping mall

National: 28 Nov 11
Kista shopping centre in northern Stockholm was closed for several hours on Monday after a masked gang robbed a jewellery store and a suspicious package was later found in a stairwell. READ »

Eight arrested in Gothenburg casino raid

Business & Money: 17 Nov 11
Eight people were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of embezzlement at state-owned Casino Cosmopol in Gothenburg. READ »

17 charged in footballer's 'gang-war' slaying

National: 16 Nov 11
Charges were filed against 17 men on Wednesday in relation to the July 2010 killing of young Assyriska FF footballer Eddie Moussa and his brother, in what prosecutors believe was a settling of scores between rival gangs. READ »

Ten Swedish brands everyone should know

Lifestyle: 8 Nov 11
While Ikea, H&M, and Ericsson are all well known Swedish brands, here's a list of ten more products and brands from the land of the midnight sun that any self-proclaimed Swedophile should also know. READ »

More Swedish parents track kids with GPS

Science & Technology: 7 Nov 11
Thousands of Swedish parents choose to keep track of their children by help of their mobile phones, despite warnings from experts that this kind of surveillance could be an infringement on the children's privacy. READ »

'Iran may be spying on exiles in Sweden': agency

National: 7 Nov 11
New guidelines issued by the Swedish Migration Board reveal that Iran has both the ability and the inclination to keep tabs on political antagonists in Sweden. 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 »

Smuggling scandal rocks Swedish Air Force

National: 26 Oct 11
The Swedish military has been hit by a smuggling scandal stemming from the Air Force's just completed mission in Libya. READ »

Thai massage parlours in sex trade raids

National: 24 Oct 11
Police and the tax authorities have launched closer surveillance of Thai massage parlours in Sweden, suspecting that the sharp increase in their number indicates sex trafficking and tax evasion. READ »

Haga: Sweden's 'royal nursery' preps for a new arrival

Lifestyle: 20 Oct 11
With a massive garden complete with play areas, woods and other parkland, Haga Palace isn’t a bad playground for the upcoming addition to the Swedish royal family, The Local's Geoff Mortimore explains. READ »

Google snaps suspected illegal booze deal

Science & Technology: 20 Oct 11
A string of pictures taken by Google Maps outside of a Systembolaget liquor store in Timrå in northern Sweden appear to capture a case of illegal alcohol peddling to a minor, according to local police. READ »

Säpo wants more power to spy on the internet

Science & Technology: 20 Oct 11
Swedish security service Säpo and national police investigators want to see new legislation that will make it easier for them to carry out surveillance on the internet. READ »

'Sweden should ask for US help to free journalists jailed in Ethiopia'

Analysis & Opinion: 17 Oct 11
Just as Sweden helped win the release of two American journalists captured in North Korea in 2009, the US can hopefully find a way to return the favour in Ethiopia before Sweden considers supporting US anti-terror efforts in the region, argues historian Susanne Berger. READ »

Snoop agency to target smartphone apps

Science & Technology: 12 Oct 11
Sweden's main signals intelligence agency is set to receive additional funding to improve its ability to monitor traffic generated by smartphone and tablet computer apps. READ »

Malmö mayor: time to try 'temporary' citizenship

Politics: 7 Oct 11
Social Democrat Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu's proposal to combat criminality by deporting new Swedish citizens who commit serious crimes has been slammed by party colleagues as "pure racism". READ »

Man denies buying sex: 'I couldn't get it up'

Society: 7 Oct 11
A 71-year-old Swede caught paying for sex has claimed he is innocent as his erectile dysfunction made it impossible to go through with the act. READ »

Fatal beating an 'execution': prosecutor

National: 5 Oct 11
The female prison guard who was beaten to death by an inmate at a Swedish jail on Monday was alone with the 28-year-old offender at the time of what prosecutors have called an “execution”. READ »

Ikea blasts linked to extortion scheme

Business & Money: 21 Sep 11
Officials at Swedish retail giant Ikea have confirmed that the company is the target of an extortion attempt following a string of blasts and other incidents at Ikea outlets throughout Europe. READ »

Oil spill clean-up continues in Sweden

National: 18 Sep 11
The clean-up operation of the oil spill on Sweden's west coast continued on Sunday with more than 110 cubic metres removed so far, in what has been described as the largest spills to affect Sweden in years. READ »

Shots fired in Malmö apartment

National: 18 Sep 11
A series of shots ricocheted around an apartment Saturday night in Malmö, southern Sweden. Although no one was injured, police suspect attempted murder. READ »

Sweden's Stasi spies detailed in new book

National: 15 Sep 11
The activities of more than 50 Swedes who spied on their fellow citizens for the East German intelligence service during the Cold War have been described in a new book. READ »

Daycare 'punch clocks' catch on in Sweden

Education: 14 Sep 11
Preschoolers at a daycare in northern Sweden now have their attendance tracked through an electronic punch clock system in order to help streamline the assessment of fees. READ »

Explosion rocks Gothenburg police depot

National: 14 Sep 11
A powerful explosion occurred at a police building on Hisingen in Gothenburg at around 7pm on Tuesday, causing a fire and prompting a police investigation. READ »

Thieves use wheel loader in cash machine heist

Business & Money: 9 Sep 11
Thieves driving a wheel loader through the entrance of a supermarket early on Friday morning scooped a cash machine straight out of the wall before disappearing from the scene with their loot. READ »

Stockholm police break up human trafficking ring

National: 26 Aug 11
Stockholm police have identified a large number of sex-buyers following the arrests of six men on suspicion of trafficking and pimping charges in a case involving at least 20 Lithuanian women. READ »

Man admits placing spy camera in girls' shower

Society: 24 Aug 11
A middle aged man has confessed to being the person who put up a camera that was discovered in a girls' shower at a sports club in western Sweden. READ »

Peeping tom camera found in girls’ showers

National: 21 Aug 11
A tiny spy camera disguised as a towel rack was discovered in a women’s shower room in western Sweden. Officials say video from the hidden device was ”for sexual purposes.” READ »

Gothenburg tram driver charged for racial slur

National: 5 Aug 11
A Gothenburg tram driver has been charged with racial agitation after uttering slurs into the trolley's speaker system in reference to a group of teenage boys. READ »

57 convicted in massive Swedish doping scandal

National: 4 Aug 11
Fifty-seven people were convicted on Thursday for being part of a massive doping ring in one of the largest criminal cases in Swedish legal history that accrued an estimated 58 million kronor ($9 million) in legal fees. READ »

Swedish museum hit by rhino horn heist

Society: 27 Jul 11
The rhinoceros horn's reputed potency powers are believed to be the motive for the recent theft at a Gothenburg museum which left the museum's stuffed rhino a shadow of its former self. READ »

Peru sues Swedish city over 'stolen' artifacts

Science & Technology: 5 Jul 11
The Peruvian president announced on Monday that the Latin American country is planning to sue Sweden's second largest city Gothenburg over the alleged theft of pre-Columbian textiles on exhibit in one of the city's museums. READ »

New technology sheds light on criminal images

Science & Technology: 24 Jun 11
Sweden’s police will now be able to identify criminals from pictures and videos with the aid of new technology that can compare a suspect in an image with police record photos. READ »

Swede notches massive 'dream' lotto win

Society: 19 Jun 11
A lottery player from western Sweden is set to receive a payday of more than 105 million kronor ($16 million), Swedish lottery officials announced on Saturday. READ »

Riksdag votes to extend Libya mission

Politics: 18 Jun 11
Lawmakers voted by a large majority on Friday to extend Sweden's participation in NATO's Libya bombing campaign for another three months. Only the Left Party and far-right Sweden Democrats opposed the move. READ »

Sweden reaches new deal on Libya mission

National: 8 Jun 11
The Swedish government has reached an agreement with the Social Democrats and the Green Party to extend the country's military mission in Libya. READ »

Saab Group receives major Thai navy order

Business & Money: 3 Jun 11
The defence and security company Saab Group has received two orders from the Royal Thai Navy, worth a total of 454 million kronor ($73 million). READ »

Three men held for human trafficking

National: 1 Jun 11
Police in Gothenburg have detained three men on suspicion of trafficking Romanian women. READ »

Green light for Swedish ‘hooligan-register’

Sport: 31 May 11
Stockholm club Djurgården Football has received the approval needed from the Data Inspection Board (Datainspektionen) to start up a register of blacklisted supporters to keep them out of sports events. READ »

Teenage girls beat schoolgirl unconscious

National: 28 May 11
Five teenage girls are to be questioned in connection with the brutal assault of a 14-year-old girl who was beaten unconscious at a school in Malmö on Friday. READ »

Hooligans should report to police - Social Democrats

Politics: 27 May 11
The Social Democrats want Sweden to implement new laws requiring known hooligans to report to the police during sports events before the start of the next football season. READ »

Outgoing US ambassador to Sweden looks back

Analysis & Opinion: 27 May 11
In the final days of his shortened term as US ambassador to Sweden, Matthew Barzun tells The Local's David Landes about what Sweden can teach the world about balance as he prepares to help US President Barack Obama get reelected. READ »

New asylum policies pave way for boost in forced deportations

National: 25 May 11
Forced deportations of rejected asylum seekers are expected to increase by 30 percent compared to last year due in part to Sweden's new asylum policies. READ »

Sweden's spy laws need updating: Säpo

National: 24 May 11
Swedish Security Service (Säpo) thinks that Swedish laws on espionage are outdated while the government called for an inquiry last year following the discovery of under-cover investigations in Sweden. READ »

US ran 'secret terror hunt' in Sweden: report

National: 23 May 11
US intelligence agents entered Sweden to spy on suspected terrorists without permission from the Swedish government, according to media reports. READ »

Social Democrats in Libya mission u-turn

Politics: 18 May 11
The Social Democrats have altered their view on Sweden's military presence in Libya, expressing their support for an extension and expansion of the Swedish military and humanitarian contributions to the North African country. READ »

Hidden cameras catch cleaners looting Swedish trains

National: 4 May 11
A number of sticky-fingered cleaners were caught red handed stealing liquor, beer, and candy from the restaurant cars of Swedish trains following the installation of hidden surveillance cameras. READ »

Putin slams 'double standards' over Libya

Politics: 27 Apr 11
During a visit to Sweden on Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blasted the gulf between words and practice in modern international relations, using an anecdote from his KGB past to denounce civilian deaths in Libya. READ »

Green light for Swedish rail operator's 'graffiti database'

Science & Technology: 18 Apr 11
Swedish rail operator SJ has been given clearance by the Swedish Data Inspection Board to open a "graffiti database" in order to assist police reports and damages claims. READ »

Two wolves attack and kill a dog

National: 17 Apr 11
Two wolves attacked a dog that was being walked by a woman and her child in Norrtälje. The dog was killed. The woman and child were unharmed. READ »

Eight years for ‘dusk and dawn’ pyromaniac

National: 8 Apr 11
The so-called ‘dusk and dawn’ pyromaniac, thought to be responsible for a string of deliberately-set fires in southern Sweden in recent years, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday after being of convicted of aggravated arson. READ »

Online funerals ruled in breach of Swedish law

Society: 6 Apr 11
The Stockholm Cemetery Administration wanted to broadcast funerals online, but have run in to unexpected trouble – mounting a camera would be in breach of Swedish surveillance law. READ »

Prosecutor drops probe into US embassy 'spying'

Politics: 4 Apr 11
A prosecutor looking into whether a surveillance programme run by the US embassy in Stockholm violated Swedish law has dropped the investigation. READ »

Principal spied on pupils with hidden camera

Education: 4 Apr 11
A principal at a middle school in south central Sweden has admitted to secretly installing a surveillance camera after it was discovered by a group of students. READ »

Thief caught after forgetting credit card

Society: 28 Mar 11
A 53-year-old man has been arrested for stealing a selection of electronic items, after forgetting his credit card at the returns counter of a store in Uppsala in eastern Sweden on Saturday. READ »

'Dusk and dawn pyromaniac' faces court

National: 14 Mar 11
The 47-year-old man known as the "dusk and dawn pyromaniac" faces trial in Ystad in southern Sweden on Monday, charged with having set fire to an apartment block in the town in December. READ »

Dead foetus found at Stockholm metro station

National: 11 Mar 11
A dead foetus was found on the platform of a metro station in southern Stockholm on Friday, according to police. READ »

Swede causes airborne meningitis scare

National: 10 Mar 11
A Swedish woman was at the heart of a meningitis scare aboard a plane which was held in isolation at Copenhagen Kastrup airport on Wednesday after revealing that she may be suffering from the potentially fatal condition. READ »

Alcoholic doc allowed to keep practicing

Society: 5 Mar 11
Sweden's top medical ethics body has ruled that a Stockholm-area doctor's alcohol problems are no reason to strip him of his licence to practice medicine. READ »

Dead body 'missing' from Swedish funeral home

Society: 4 Mar 11
The funeral of Stockholm-area man had to be cancelled after the coffin carrying the dead man's body went missing. READ »

Secrecy slows probe of US embassy surveillance

National: 3 Mar 11
An investigation into the legality of a surveillance programme run by the US embassy in Stockholm has been hampered by a refusal of people involved to answer questions about the operation, a prosecutor said on Thursday. READ »

Net rumours lead to anti-refugee egg attack

National: 1 Mar 11
A group of right-wing extremists threw eggs and hurled racial slurs outside a housing facility for unaccompanied refugee children near Stockholm after internet rumours about a suspected sexual assault spiraled out of control. READ »

Swedish think tank in Qaddafi arms warning

Politics: 1 Mar 11
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi may be receiving weapons shipments from Belarus according to an official at a Swedish think tank which monitors global arms trafficking. READ »

Woman charged for 'Dexter'-killing in Sweden

National: 24 Feb 11
A 21-year-old woman charged with killing her father told investigators in Sweden that some of the evidence against her can be attributed to her love of a US television series about a serial killer. READ »

Favourable weather aids oil slick clean up

Science & Technology: 19 Feb 11
The Swedish and Norwegian coast guard continued work to clean up the oil spill caused by a grounded Icelandic vessel just north of the Swedish border on Thursday, reporting that weather conditions remained favourable. READ »

Swedish postal worker stole birthday card cash

Society: 14 Feb 11
A female employee with Sweden's postal service has admitted to stealing money, gift vouchers and lottery tickets from letters that she sorted. READ »

Sweden 'lacks tools' to fight extremism: Åkesson

Politics: 26 Jan 11
Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson kicked off Wednesday's Riksdag debate about violent extremism with a reference to the Stockholm suicide bombing in December. READ »

Swedish military urged to use Twitter on the job

Science & Technology: 24 Jan 11
Employees of the Swedish Armed Forces have been encouraged to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter while at work to engage in discussions on the authority's activities, according to new directive. READ »

Örebro prof caught on camera in suspect's car

National: 12 Jan 11
A surveillance camera has recorded a Örebro University professor stepping into a black Cadillac owned by her colleague, now in detention as a suspect in her murder, the same day she was reported missing, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday. READ »

Denmark terror plan 'destined to fail': expert

National: 1 Jan 11
A foiled terrorist plot involving three Swedes who planned an attack on a Danish newspaper was destined to fail, a Swedish terrorism expert said on Saturday. READ »

Swede suspects once arrested in Pakistan

National: 30 Dec 10
Two of the Swedish citizens arrested following a foiled terror plot against a Danish newspaper have previously been arrested in Pakistan. READ »

Swedish terror suspects remanded in custody

National: 30 Dec 10
Three men from Sweden were remanded in custody by a Danish court on Thursday after police foiled their plot against a newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. READ »

Swedes arrested over 'Muhammad cartoon plot'

National: 29 Dec 10
Three Swedes were among five people arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of preparing to commit a terrorist act against the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, which published the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. READ »

Bomber's explosives identified with FBI help

National: 16 Dec 10
Swedish investigators theorise that equipment problems may have caused the Stockholm suicide bomber to divert to a side street, potentially saving many lives. They also claim to have identified explosive material used in the attack. READ »

Bomber linked to radical preacher: report

National: 16 Dec 10
The man who carried out Sweden's first suicide bombing in central Stockholm on Saturday is thought to have had ties to radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza, according to media reports. READ »

‘Terrorism is a battle of minds, not of bombs’

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 10
As Sweden struggles to come to grips with the suicide bomb attack that shook central Stockholm on Saturday, Sweden-based Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil argues that the defence of freedom involves raising questions rather than throwing bombs in retaliation. READ »

Social Democrats u-turn on Säpo surveillance

Politics: 14 Dec 10
A leading Social Democrat has proposed restoring the ability of Swedish security service Säpo to request signals intelligence in order to make it easier to follow terrorist groups. READ »

Swedish ire stopped CIA 'terror flights'

National: 5 Dec 10
Suspicions that the United States was transporting terror suspects via Sweden on clandestine flights resulted in a diplomatic crisis, according to documents released by WikiLeaks. READ »

Riksdag to probe US embassy surveillance

Politics: 23 Nov 10
The Swedish Riksdag’s constitutional committee has announced that it will look into what current and former cabinet ministers knew about the US embassy in Stockholm's surveillance of people in Sweden. READ »

Sweden knew of US surveillance: report

National: 19 Nov 10
Sweden’s former Social Democratic government was informed in 2002 about a surveillance programme run by the US embassy in Stockholm, secret documents reveal. READ »

Swedes' emails to be stored for six months

Science & Technology: 11 Nov 10
Emails and mobile phone text messages would be stored for six months by internet service providers, according to a bill presented by the Swedish government on Thursday. READ »

Men locked in mosque during terror raid

National: 11 Nov 10
The Gothenburg police are facing more criticism following revelations that they locked eight men in a mosque when responding to a terror threat on October 30th. READ »

Säpo 'never authorised' US surveillance

National: 10 Nov 10
Sweden's Security Service Säpo did not give permission to the US embassy to conduct surveillance in Sweden, according to chief Anders Danielsson. READ »

US seeks to allay tension over embassy 'spying'

National: 9 Nov 10
The United States on Monday acknowledged its surveillance programme conducted at embassies in Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen, seeking to ease tensions after a Swedish prosecutor opened a probe into the legality of the practice. READ »


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