Published 4 April 2023 at 10.59
Domestic. Five Muslims have been arrested and detained on suspicion of being labeled a terrorist crime. The operation took place after intensive intelligence and investigative work carried out by the Security Police.
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The persons were arrested during a coordinated operation in Eskilstuna, Linköping and Strängnäs that was carried out on Tuesday morning with the support of the police's National Task Force. At the same time, a number of house searches were carried out.
The suspicions concern plans for terrorist crimes in Sweden and the Security Police has carried out extensive intelligence and investigation work with the support of, among others, the Swedish Police Agency.
Säpo does not make the assessment that a attack was immediately imminent.
– The security police often need to intervene early to ward off a threat. We cannot wait for a crime to be completed before we act. The current case is one of several that the Security Police has worked on after the protests that were directed at Sweden in connection with the high-profile burning of the Koran in January and where there are international calls for attacks, says Susanna Trehörning, deputy head of counter-terrorism at the Security Police, in a statement.
The suspected crime is deemed to have international links to violent Islamist extremism.
The five arrested persons have been arrested by prosecutors on suspicion of labeling them terrorist crimes. Stamping means that a person in consultation with another decides to commit a crime, tries to persuade someone else to commit a crime or undertakes to commit a crime.
The preliminary investigation is conducted by the Security Police under the direction of prosecutors at the National Security Unit .