The following articles have been tagged with "Suspect":
National: 24 May 13
A man has been arrested on the suspicion of murdering a 20-year-old woman who vanished three weeks ago in northern Sweden, and whose body parts were uncovered on Monday.
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Politics: 23 May 13
With one 18-year-old remanded in custody after four nights of rioting in Stockholm, Sweden's Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag said the rioters are a small minority, and did not represent a clash between young people in the suburbs and society.
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Politics: 23 May 13
One of the women who has accused Julian Assange of sex crimes has called on the Swedish government to increase pressure on Ecuador to hand over the WikiLeaks-founder to authorities in Sweden.
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Society: 22 May 13
An auction of memorabilia belonging to Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Berman has been scrapped by authorities after claims the items were stolen from the family.
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National: 21 May 13
Seven people were arrested on Tuesday following the Husby riots in northern Stockholm, with Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt warning that the unrest may continue.
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National: 21 May 13
Jan Åke Jonsson, the former CEO of Saab Automobile, and two top-level colleagues have been detained by police on suspicion of tax crimes.
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Business & Money: 21 May 13
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson is suspected of having bribed ministers in Romania in connection with being awarded a contract for the country's emergency number and is now under investigation in the United States.
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National: 21 May 13
Cars were engulfed in flames on Monday night and youths clashed with police in the north-western Stockholm district of Husby for a second night in a row.
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National: 20 May 13
A town in western Sweden has agreed to pay damages to a man who was told he wouldn't be hired if he refused to shake a woman's hand for religious reasons.
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Science & Technology: 20 May 13
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is on trial once again in Sweden for his role in committing what prosecutors believe may have been the largest data breach in Swedish history.
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National: 19 May 13
A man was detained Sunday morning on suspicion of involvement in a violent jewellery store heist which left three people with gunshot wounds.
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Science & Technology: 16 May 13
Suicide rates have risen dramatically since 1995 among young people in Sweden with disabilities that leave them with reduced working capacities, according to a new study.
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National: 16 May 13
A British man wanted in South Africa in connection with the murder of his Swedish wife, who was killed while the couple were on their honeymoon, has suffered a relapse in mental health problems, a court heard on Wednesday.
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National: 13 May 13
A Stockholm shopkeeper has been jailed for two years for locking up three teenage boys in his store's cellar for ten hours, where he mimicked aspects of water boarding on one of them.
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National: 12 May 13
Volunteers are on Sunday set to continue the search for a 20-year-old woman who went missing near Boden in northern Sweden last week while police investigate a suspected abduction.
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National: 11 May 13
A 17-year-old boy was seriously injured on Friday night after falling from a balcony on the fourth floor of a block of flats in Lund in southern Sweden.
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National: 10 May 13
Six teenage boys aged 15 to 17 are facing trial for raping a 15-year-old girl in a north-western suburb of Stockholm in March.
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Society: 8 May 13
Swedes suspected of crashing their cars while drunk can continue to claim they became inebriated after the accident occurs, a government inquiry has found, concluding there is no need to outlaw drinking after a causing a traffic accident.
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National: 8 May 13
Swedish police said on Wednesday that a two-year-old boy who was found dead in a car in southern Sweden had been left alone there for eight hours, after his father forgot to drop him off at day care.
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National: 6 May 13
Sweden's Justice Ombudsman announced on Monday it will not investigate the alleged racial profiling carried out by Stockholm police in the city's public transit system during a push to deport illegal immigrants.
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National: 4 May 13
The 16-year-old who admitted to torturing and killing cats in Gothenburg is being hounded on the internet, with threats directed at the teenager and his family on forums like Flashback, which was also instrumental in the police investigation.
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National: 3 May 13
A Swedish teenager arrested on Thursday on suspicions of killing nine pet cats in western Sweden has admitted to police in Gothenburg that he is responsible for the crimes.
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National: 3 May 13
Firefighters found three bodies in a flat in Sundbyberg, just north-west of the Swedish capital Stockholm, after an explosion early on Friday that is now being investigated as a suspected case of murder.
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National: 2 May 13
A man suspected of killing at least nine pet cats in western Sweden was arrested by Gothenburg police on Thursday afternoon.
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Society: 2 May 13
A dispute at a store in western Sweden left one woman with her hair on fire and another facing possible assault charges.
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National: 2 May 13
A 28-year-old man from Sweden has confessed to stabbing a 26-year-old Swedish woman to death in the Norwegian capital Oslo, where her boyfriend is still being treated for his wounds.
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Politics: 1 May 13
Another cat has been found dead in Gothenburg, leading police to intensify their hunt for a suspected serial cat killer.
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Science & Technology: 30 Apr 13
Health authorities say as many as 12 additional cases of hepatitis discovered in Sweden can likely be traced back to the same virus strain that epidemiologists have linked to frozen berries first discovered in Denmark.
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National: 30 Apr 13
A Swedish woman was found dead in her Oslo home together with a seriously injured man in the early hours of Tuesday, with Norwegian police arresting two men and on the hunt for more suspects.
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National: 28 Apr 13
Police in Oskarshamn in southern Sweden unearthed a large-scale marijuana farm on Saturday night.
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National: 27 Apr 13
A drunk man was shot in the foot by police in Umeå in northern Sweden on Friday night after he pointed a pistol at them in an attempt to evade arrest.
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Politics: 27 Apr 13
Swedish authorities Friday confirmed a woman facing US charges over spying for Cuba is living in Sweden and married to a foreign ministry employee, but said it was unlikely she would be extradited.
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National: 26 Apr 13
The Stockholm woman charged in the US with conspiracy to commit espionage for Cuba is married to a Swedish foreign ministry official, Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 26 Apr 13
A man in northern Sweden is suspected of drugging nursing staff by spiking their coffee and cakes with narcotics when they visited him on a house call.
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Business & Money: 26 Apr 13
Swedish alpaca farmers suspect that a wolf attacked and killed six of its animals on Wednesday night at their central Sweden farm, which supplies alpaca wool to the Swedish fashion industry.
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Society: 25 Apr 13
Swedish police raided Justin Bieber's tour bus after officers reported a "suspicious" odour when the pop star boarded the vehicle ahead of his concert in Stockholm on Wednesday night.
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National: 24 Apr 13
Police were called in when an explosion blew the door off a National Tax Agency office in southern Sweden on early Wednesday morning.
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Society: 23 Apr 13
Two Swedish Customs workers in southern Sweden have been reported to the police after growing cannabis plants at work, an act the pair claims was purely for research purposes.
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National: 23 Apr 13
Swedish police have arrested a 34-year-old man in connection with the woman found murdered at a Stockholm hotel over the weekend.
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Business & Money: 22 Apr 13
Spotify founder Martin Lorentzon, brought in to revitalize the profile of bribery-accused Swedish telecom giant TeliaSonera, has avoided millions in taxes to Sweden through a shell company in Cyprus.
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Society: 21 Apr 13
Suspicions are growing that an animal torturer is at large in Gothenburg as a sixth cat was found dead on Sunday in an area plagued by a spate of brutal cat killings.
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National: 21 Apr 13
Police suspect that a woman who was found dead in a four-star hotel in central Stockholm on Saturday afternoon was murdered.
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Business & Money: 19 Apr 13
Several Swedish banks are suspected of passing on the names of customers who have been denied a mortgage to other lenders who offer higher interest rates to high-risk borrowers.
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National: 17 Apr 13
Swedish police have detained four people in connection with a fire that killed 70 cows in the barn of an agricultural high school about 50 kilometres south of Stockholm.
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Science & Technology: 16 Apr 13
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was one of four people charged in Sweden on Tuesday on suspicions they hacked into several Swedish agencies and companies and attempted to transfer money out of the Nordea bank.
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National: 16 Apr 13
A Stockholm woman with epilepsy was robbed in the middle of a seizure on Monday night, shocking police who called the incident "shameless".
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National: 15 Apr 13
Police were left scratching their heads after teenage girls playing in the woods in southern Sweden discovered what appeared to be a human foot, but which experts later revealed to be something much more unexpected.
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Society: 15 Apr 13
A backyard barbecue in central Sweden took a sinister turn on Sunday when an irate neighour buried a hatchet in the back of the man tending the grill.
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National: 8 Apr 13
Police had the last laugh when two men robbed a Stockholm-area electronics store in broad daylight, with witnesses recording every wrong move the thieves made.
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National: 6 Apr 13
A Swedish man who went missing in January has been found dead amid growing suspicions he was the scapegoat for a botched drug deal in Norway.
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Travel: 5 Apr 13
In our weekly profile of life in different parts of Sweden, Colombian-born entrepreneur Carlos Perdomo waxes poetic about Karlstad, a town that offers small-town charm, a bevy of foreign students, and no shortage of outdoor adventure.
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National: 5 Apr 13
Three Swedes visiting Zurich were shocked on Thursday when local police pulled over their black Volvo station wagons and arrested them at gunpoint.
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National: 4 Apr 13
A Swedish supreme court judge discussing his country's legal system and the case of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange with Australian students has said that Swedish law prohibits extradition for military or political crimes.
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National: 3 Apr 13
Two men are being held on suspicion of murder after a woman who was reportedly dismembered was found in a flat in south Stockholm on Tuesday night.
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National: 3 Apr 13
Two young boys from Afghanistan have been found abandoned on the streets of Uppsala in recent days, prompting suspicions they were brought to Sweden via an organized people smuggling operation.
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National: 1 Apr 13
A man was detained Sunday on suspicion of animal torture after a series of brutal cat murders in the Högsbo area of Gothenburg.
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Politics: 31 Mar 13
A former local politician suspected of defrauding taxpayers in central Sweden of millions of kronor has been remanded into custody on aggravated fraud charges following her arrest in Thailand last week.
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Science & Technology: 30 Mar 13
A former police officer has been cleared of sexual molestation after explaining to the court that claims of having masturbated in front of a woman were unfounded and in fact he was just attempting to deal with a troublesome itch.
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Science & Technology: 29 Mar 13
A grocery store in Västra Götaland in western Sweden has been criticised after publishing a surveillance camera photo of a suspected thief on its Facebook page with the comment 'nice that you like our lamb and beef'.
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Politics: 29 Mar 13
A politician suspected of defrauding taxpayers in central Sweden of millions of kronor ended six months on the run after landing in Stockholm on Friday following her arrest in Thailand last week.
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National: 25 Mar 13
A top prosecutor believes more Migration Board employees will likely be implicated in an ongoing bribery probe launched after two employees were arrested on suspicions of selling residence permits.
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National: 23 Mar 13
A driver allegedly made "Swedes" and "foreign-looking" people travel on separate buses between Stockholm and the Eckerölinjen ferry terminal in Grisslehamn.
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Business & Money: 22 Mar 13
A politician suspected of defrauding taxpayers in central Sweden of millions of kronor has been arrested in Thailand after being on the run since last autumn.
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National: 21 Mar 13
A Swedish man has been sentenced to prison for his suspected involvement in planning terror crimes against Israeli visitors in Cyprus.
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Sport: 21 Mar 13
Threats and harassment in the Swedish sports industry affect almost half of all club directors but also taint the working life of referees and event employees, a government ombudsman has warned.
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National: 20 Mar 13
There will likely be a school shooting in Sweden sometime in the foreseeable future, according to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, which warned that local authorities are woefully unprepared to deal with such an event.
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Society: 19 Mar 13
Children suspected of serious crimes and held in Sweden's remand centres are rarely afforded any human contact and subject to isolation akin to torture, according to a new report.
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National: 19 Mar 13
In an apparent protest against Gothenburg's new congestion charges, local residents have sabotaged eleven of the city's toll-booth cameras in what is suspected to be a paintball attack.
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Business & Money: 19 Mar 13
Two women from southern Sweden have been charged for drugging and robbing men they met online, making off with chocolate and washing powder and cleaning up spotlessly after themselves.
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National: 19 Mar 13
Three men face up to a year in prison after police found over 2,000 rare bird eggs under a trapdoor in a home in northern Sweden.
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National: 19 Mar 13
Police suspect eight drivers of reckless driving and one of manslaughter, as the investigation into January's fatal truck pile-up in southern Sweden comes to a close.
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Politics: 16 Mar 13
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has called for a tougher stance on certain crimes, including burglary, calling for an end to a situation where many criminals consider themselves immune from prosecution.
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National: 15 Mar 13
Four schools were shut down in Malmö on Friday after a rifle, a shotgun, and ammunition were discovered by construction workers on the roof of one of the schools.
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National: 15 Mar 13
Prosecutors on Friday ordered a 44-year-old man held on remand, saying the man's online chats are connected to a 13-year-old girl's suspected suicide.
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National: 14 Mar 13
Police have arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicions of sex crimes in connection with their investigation into a case of cyberbullying that police suspect drove a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide.
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National: 13 Mar 13
Teachers of the 13-year-old girl who is believed to have killed herself in central Sweden last week knew she was being bullied, according to her friends and family.
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National: 13 Mar 13
Prosecutors have launched a preliminary criminal investigation into the actions of police during a high-speed chase that resulted in the drowning of two suspected petrol thieves after they drove off a bridge.
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National: 12 Mar 13
A suspected bomb that was left in a Stockholm foreign exchange bureau caused an entire neighbourhood to be shut down by police for over five hours on Tuesday night, until a bomb squad destroyed the object in a controlled detonation.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Mar 13
US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt reflects on why many of her friends in Sweden are from her home country and whether or not this makes her a "bad immigrant".
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National: 12 Mar 13
Police are investigating whether a 13-year-old girl who died after being hit by a train in central Sweden last week may have committed suicide after being bullied online.
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National: 12 Mar 13
Two suspected petrol thieves have died after a high-speed police chase on Monday night ended with them driving their car off a bridge that was open for boat traffic, and into the icy waters below.
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Society: 11 Mar 13
A 70-year-old man in eastern Sweden was given a shock at the weekend when he was awoken by a young man who managed to creep into his bed after a night of heavy drinking.
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National: 10 Mar 13
Several hundred litres of oil leaked out of a commuter train in Lerum outside Gothenburg after it drove over a garbage bin that police suspect could have been deliberately placed on the tracks.
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National: 6 Mar 13
Several teenage boys have been held for involvement in the suspected gang rape of a teenage girl northwest of Stockholm.
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Science & Technology: 5 Mar 13
Filesharing site The Pirate Bay claims to have relocated to North Korea after legal threats led Sweden's Pirate Party to cut off the site's internet access. But the news was later revealed to be a hoax.
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Science & Technology: 4 Mar 13
A man working in elderly care in southern Sweden risks up to two years in prison after he spent almost all of an 82-year-old woman's savings on porn, alcohol, and a home cinema.
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National: 3 Mar 13
Controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks is reported to be one of eleven people on a list of targets for extremists published by an Al-Qaeda linked group.
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National: 2 Mar 13
Two men have been arrested in connection with the shooting of a man outside a pre-school in Norrköping in central Sweden on Friday.
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Business & Money: 1 Mar 13
Sony Music is demanding 1.5 million kronor ($200,000) in damages from a Swedish man who fileshared Beyoncé's as yet to be released album in a case that has legal experts scratching their heads.
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Society: 1 Mar 13
A man has confessed to police in western Sweden that the hit US television programme The Sopranos inspired him to embark on a blackmail campaign featuring threatening letters and broken windows.
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National: 26 Feb 13
Police in Stockholm were surprised on Monday to find that a man they had arrested for buying sex from a prostitute was the duty prosecutor to whom they were obliged to report the crime.
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Politics: 23 Feb 13
Two men and one woman have been arrested in Stockholm on suspicion of blackmail and conspiring to commit murder in a case believed to be connected to the Eritrean regime's systematic oppression of Eritreans living in exile.
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National: 22 Feb 13
Sweden's integration minister, Erik Ullenhag, has slammed as "unacceptable" reports that police in Stockholm are stopping people based on the colour of their skin and forcing them to show their IDs.
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National: 21 Feb 13
Police in Stockholm have been accused of racial profiling on the city's public transit system by targeting "foreign-looking" commuters in an effort to deport illegal immigrants.
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National: 20 Feb 13
The man who robbed a drunken man in Stockholm as he lay on the subway train tracks is now suspected of killing someone in Paris in 2011, after a French television viewer recognized the thief from security camera footage.
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National: 19 Feb 13
A 45-year-old man wanted in connection with the 2011 killing of a gang leader in Malmö tried to turn himself in on Monday, only to be told that the local police station was closed.
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National: 19 Feb 13
The editor of Swedish tabloid Expressen and two journalists are guilty of gun crimes, a Swedish court ruled on Tuesday, upholding a lower court ruling that their investigative sting into buying black-market weapons in Malmö was illegal.
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National: 16 Feb 13
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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Society: 15 Feb 13
Swedish prosecutors have charged a Swedish man for assault after he reportedly spat and punched a woman when she told him not to abuse his French Bulldog puppy, whom he had lifted into the air by tugging on its leash.
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National: 14 Feb 13
A 65-year-old Swedish man was arrested in Madrid when local police made a raid on suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PPK).
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