Today in Sweden: A roundup of the latest news on Monday
Court rules on Easter rioters, a wolf shot in Skåne, Midsummer drownings, and Nato talks: find out what's going on in Sweden with The Local's roundup.
Court in Örebro to rule on four involved in Easter riots
A court in Örebro will rule today on four men accused of throwing stones at police over the Easter weekend, and in some cases also filmed attacks on police and encouraged others to carry out attacks.
The men are accused of the crime of blåljussabotage, literally "blue light sabotage", which covers attacks on police officers and their cars and other equipment.
According to the prosecution, the four men attacked and threatened police, damaged police vehicles, and injured police dogs. The attacks took place during protests against plans by the far-right activist Rasmus Paludan to burn copies of the Koran in the city.
Swedish vocab: blåljussabotage – damaging police property and materials.
Two men drowned in lakes in Sweden over Midsummer weekend
Police have reported two separate cases of elderly men drowning over the Midsummer weekend, one in Blekinge in southern Sweden, and the other in Vaxholm, outside Stockholm.
In Blekinge, a 70-year-old man died after falling into the Halen lake in Olofström, on Sunday evening. He was pulled from the water before the ambulance arrived but was declared dead at 9pm. One of the man's relatives called the emergency services.
The man in Vaxholm, who was also described as "elderly", died after falling overboard from a boat on Sunday afternoon. The man's body was found by divers at 17.30pm.
Swedish vocab: en drunkningsolycka – a drowning accident
Wolf shot in southern Sweden after attacking sheep
A wolf was shot on Sunday in Svälov, a municipality between the cities of Lund and Helsingborg in southern Sweden. The animal, one of the wolves spotted recently in the far south of Sweden, had attacked a sheep.
"The farmer fired off a warning shot to discourage further attacks, but that did not help, and so a deadly shot was then fired," said Tom Espgård, who works on predatory animals for Skåne county.
The wolf, a female weighing 34kg, was shot according to a paragraph in Sweden's hunting law which allows livestock owners to shoot predators if they find them attacking their animals.
Swedish vocab: en tamdjursägare – a livestock owner
Swedish PM: 'I look forward to meeting Erdogan in Madrid'
Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson responded positively to the downbeat assessment of Nato talks with Turkey given by Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Saturday.
"Good call earlier today with President Erdogan of Turkey on Sweden’s Nato application," Andersson wrote on Twitter. "Agreed on the importance of making progress in the run-up to the NATO Summit in Madrid next week, where I look forward to meeting President Erdogan and other Allied leaders."
In a thread posted on Twitter, the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey said that Erdogan had told Andersson that Sweden had so far taken "no tangible action" towards making "concrete changes in its attitude towards PKK/PYD/YPG terrorist organization".
The thread also said that Turkey wants several people it sees as connected to these organisations extradited from Sweden.
Read our story on Erdogan's comments here.
Swedish vocab: utlämnade – extradited
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Court in Örebro to rule on four involved in Easter riots
A court in Örebro will rule today on four men accused of throwing stones at police over the Easter weekend, and in some cases also filmed attacks on police and encouraged others to carry out attacks.
The men are accused of the crime of blåljussabotage, literally "blue light sabotage", which covers attacks on police officers and their cars and other equipment.
According to the prosecution, the four men attacked and threatened police, damaged police vehicles, and injured police dogs. The attacks took place during protests against plans by the far-right activist Rasmus Paludan to burn copies of the Koran in the city.
Swedish vocab: blåljussabotage – damaging police property and materials.
Two men drowned in lakes in Sweden over Midsummer weekend
The man in Vaxholm, who was also described as "elderly", died after falling overboard from a boat on Sunday afternoon. The man's body was found by divers at 17.30pm.
Swedish vocab: en drunkningsolycka – a drowning accident
Wolf shot in southern Sweden after attacking sheep
A wolf was shot on Sunday in Svälov, a municipality between the cities of Lund and Helsingborg in southern Sweden. The animal, one of the wolves spotted recently in the far south of Sweden, had attacked a sheep.
"The farmer fired off a warning shot to discourage further attacks, but that did not help, and so a deadly shot was then fired," said Tom Espgård, who works on predatory animals for Skåne county.
The wolf, a female weighing 34kg, was shot according to a paragraph in Sweden's hunting law which allows livestock owners to shoot predators if they find them attacking their animals.
Swedish vocab: en tamdjursägare – a livestock owner
Swedish PM: 'I look forward to meeting Erdogan in Madrid'
Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson responded positively to the downbeat assessment of Nato talks with Turkey given by Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Saturday.
"Good call earlier today with President Erdogan of Turkey on Sweden’s Nato application," Andersson wrote on Twitter. "Agreed on the importance of making progress in the run-up to the NATO Summit in Madrid next week, where I look forward to meeting President Erdogan and other Allied leaders."
In a thread posted on Twitter, the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey said that Erdogan had told Andersson that Sweden had so far taken "no tangible action" towards making "concrete changes in its attitude towards PKK/PYD/YPG terrorist organization".
The thread also said that Turkey wants several people it sees as connected to these organisations extradited from Sweden.
Read our story on Erdogan's comments here.
Swedish vocab: utlämnade – extradited
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