Sweden faces a heightened risk of copy-cat attacks by far-right extremists, the country's Säpo security police have warned, following recent attacks in Texas, Norway, and New Zealand.
The chief executive of a largely Muslim free school in Gothenburg has been placed in custody by the Swedish Migration Agency on the orders of the country's Säpo security police. It follows the arrests of other Imams in recent months.
Sweden's security police Säpo receive information about new potential terror threats every other day, a senior official tells The Local a year after the deadly Stockholm truck attack.
Sweden's security service Säpo warns in a new report that the threats to the country are greater than in a long time, citing rising extremism and tension in the rest of the world.
Around ten people with links to Isis returned to Sweden last year after travelling to the terror organization's areas in Syria or Iraq, according to the head of the Swedish security police.
Sweden's security police Säpo have raised the alarm over a dad whom they believe is in the process of radicalizing his own son, who is around the age of ten.
A 30-year-old man is entitled to thousands of kronor in compensation after he was held in custody by Swedish police for four months on suspicion of carrying out a terrorist act.
A 38-year old resident of southern Swedish town Nässjö has been remanded in custody suspected of planning public devastation (allmänfarlig ödeläggelse).
Two thirds of some 3,000 violent extremists currently in Sweden are believed to have Islamist motives, the head of the country's security police Säpo said on Monday.
The number of militant extremists living in Sweden has soared from a couple of hundreds a few years ago to thousands today, the security police Säpo believes.
A fire started at a Malmö Islamic community centre did not constitute an act of terrorism, a Swedish district court has ruled, clearing a Syrian man of all charges, including arson.
Sweden's security police (Säpo) want the suspect in a terror trial related to a fire at a community centre in Malmö last year to be deported, as they consider him a security risk.
At the release of its new annual report on security threats to Sweden, security police Säpo called their task "bigger and more complicated than ever". The Local looks at four of the biggest security challenges they are currently facing.
The number of asylum and residency seekers the Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) reported to the country’s Security Service (Säpo) reached its highest ever level this year, but deporting them is often a tricky process, it says.
More than 100 people suspected of financing terror activities have been forced to pay more tax as part of a collaboration between the Swedish tax agency and security police.
Several attempts by foreign countries to infiltrate the Swedish state through winning government contracts have been detected, according to country’s security service, Säpo.
Swedish security police Säpo are now allowed to register people that express they like or sympathize with terrorist organizations like Isis, according to a Svenska Dagbladet report.
