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Drunk Pole burned down Stockholm bar

A Polish man, while on a drinking binge near Stockholm, broke into a restaurant to steal alcohol and later returned to set fire to the establishment, Swedish daily Expressen said on Saturday.

Published: 29 July 2006 13:47 CEST

The 30-year-old Pole was so desperate to obtain drink during his spree in May, he broke into the restaurant on the island of Husaroe, outside Stockholm, and made off with a wheelbarrow full of spirits, the paper said.

Later the same evening, fearing he had left evidence on the premises that could link him to the break-in, he returned and set fire to the building using his lighter and two crisp packets, according to the paper.

The ensuing blaze destroyed the property.

In addition to his theft from the restaurant, the man burgled eight houses on the island taking alcohol, cash, an axe and an air rifle.

The man has been jailed for seven years and been banned from Sweden for life.

Almedalen knife attacker linked to Swedish neo-Nazi groups: reports

He has taken part in several neo-Nazi demonstrations over the past few years and has also expressed support for the extreme right Alternative for Sweden party on social media, the Expressen newspaper reported.

The Moderate MP Hanif Bali said on Twitter after the news came out that the stabbing was “a terror attack”. “This is nothing other than a terror attack”.

Terrordåd. Det är inget annat än ett terrordåd.

— Hanif Bali (@hanifbali) July 6, 2022

The man stabbed a woman in the upper body at the Donners plats square only a minute’s walk from the stage where all eight of Sweden’s parliamentary party leaders are making speeches this week at the Almedalen political festival. The women is being treated for severe injuries at the Visby Lasarett hospital.

The 30-something attacker fled the scene but was stopped and arrested by Lars Reuterberg, a 69-year-old pensioner.

Reuterberg told the TT newswire that he had heard someone shout “stop him!” and then seen a man jump over a fence from the corner restaurant.

“I thought he’d nicked a bag or something, and my spontaneous reaction was ‘I should take him down’. He wasn’t such a big guy, certainly no bodybuilder, so I tried to look a little uninterested, but when he came near me he ended up on the end of mighty great shove.”

The man flew into a door and then just lay here. “It was only then I saw that he had a knife, which I hadn’t known earlier, because then I might have acted differently,” he said.

“I’m livid now,” he went on. “This is the world’s most unique political week, a people’s festival where you can meet politicians and celebrities and everyone says ‘hi’, where there are journalists and everything. And this nutter goes and wrecks it all.”

“I’m quite proud of myself,” he admitted. “I was never afraid. I’m afraid now for the woman who got stabbed.”

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