Published 4 October 2024 at 09.52

Domestic. Police are now appealing for tips and observations that can be linked to a man who was found dead in Fyrisån earlier this year — and who remains unidentified.

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On Monday, June 17, a deceased man was found in the Fyrisån in Uppsala at the height of Studenternas drottsplats.

The man, who is estimated to be in his 40s, has still not been identified and as the police cannot rule out that crime is behind the man's death, the case is being investigated as murder, alternatively manslaughter.

The police have secured DNA and fingerprints from the man, but searches in both national and international registers have so far yielded no results.

In order to move forward with the investigation, the police are therefore issuing a description and a picture of the man's clothes, which were completely devoid of personal belongings such as wallet, telephone and jewellery.

Signal:
Dark , possibly of African origin
About 172 cm
Normal build
short dark hair
Mustache and beard
No tattoos
Jacket (from stock 157)
Green t-shirt
Jeans

It has not yet been determined when and how the man died.

Do you have any information that can be linked to the incident? Contact the police on 114 14 or via the police website.

Published 4 October 2024 at 11.16

Domestic. Around half of Swedes think they will divorce at least once in their lives, shows a new Sifo survey from Familjens Jurist.

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The number of divorces has decreased somewhat in recent years, but at the same time the percentage of married couples in Sweden is lower than ever according to figures from Statistics Norway.

And many Swedes appear to have a pessimistic view of lifelong relationships. Almost half (47 percent) believe that they will break up from at least one relationship in their lifetime.

The survey also shows that a majority of Swedes (54 percent) feel legally unprepared for a possible divorce.

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— Although as a private person I am a romantic, as a lawyer I think it is good to be realistic about separations. It may sound contradictory but the best time to talk about legal and financial aspects of a possible separation is when you have a good relationship. If these issues are not addressed preemptively, it could become a real bomb strike if it does happen. Then you are suddenly faced with difficult decisions and conflicts that could have been avoided with better preparation and open conversations in advance, says Pierre Kryhl, lawyer at Familjens Jurist, in a press release.

Published 4 October 2024 at 11.43

Law & Right. Kalmar district court hired a district notary who had previously been convicted of having a loaded gun during a confrontation between criminals at a gambling club. Then the Swedish Tax Agency registered the man at the court's office — because he had no known residence.

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Sveriges Radio P4 Kalmar reveals the story of how a convicted gang criminal man employed as district notary by the Kalmar district court.

A district notary is the first level of judge in Sweden and notaries themselves can judge in simpler cases. They have a passed degree from the law program.

Gang criminals own Södertälje district court

But this judge himself was sentenced to six months in prison for weapons offences, after having a loaded gun during a confrontation in the criminal world at a gambling club. A protective vest was also found in a dustbin where the man was, the verdict says according to Sveriges Radio.

After the crime was revealed, it has also emerged that the man is registered at the district court's office, as the Tax Agency could not find a residential address to sign him and therefore register him at his workplace.

The head of the Kalmar District Court, the lawyer Laila Kirppu, confirms to P4 Kalmar that an internal investigation has been launched regarding an employee.

So far, no explosions or shootings have been directed at the district court's office, but according to Kirppu it is still «unacceptable» that gang criminal employees are posted on the court's premises.

Published 3 October 2024 at 10.48

Foreign. The criminal network Foxtrot is believed to have been behind the attacks against the Israeli embassies in Copenhagen and Stockholm. In Denmark, two teenagers from Sweden have been arrested.

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On Tuesday evening, there was a shooting at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, which is being investigated as serious weapons crime and vandalism.< /p>

Later that night, explosions occurred near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, probably caused by hand grenades. Two young people from Sweden, aged 15–20, have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Copenhagen crime.

The crime at the embassies in both Stockholm and Copenhagen must have been carried out on behalf of the Swedish criminal Foxtrot network, according to information to SVT News. The police must also have this hypothesis, based on how the act was carried out.

SVT reports that the Foxtrot leader Rawa Majid has been accused of previous attacks against the Israeli embassy, ​​and that this time too there may be connections to Iran.

SVT's crime reporter Sofia Yohannes describes a growing trend where Swedish gang members take on assignments abroad. She believes that the network's scope and global contacts have been underestimated.

Published 3 October 2024 at 11.37

Law & Justice. Documentary filmmaker Alex Veitch becomes the first journalist to be convicted of «unlawful depiction of protected objects» after the law was changed.

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The district court has concluded that Alex Veitch has photographed and/or filmed the police station in Solna, which is a protected object, and that he has acted negligently. He is sentenced to a day's fine.

The crime was committed in May when Veitch was in Stockholm to record a documentary about the working conditions of migrant workers on a cruise ship.

Since January 1, 2023, new provisions in the Freedom of the Press Ordinance and the Freedom of Expression Act, which mean that violations of the Protection Act's ban on images are excluded from the scope of application of the Act. This means that the depiction of protected objects is punishable even if the depiction is carried out by journalists for journalistic purposes.

Published 3 October 2024 at 18.08

Media. After criticism from Jewish groups, Dagens Nyheter has unpublished a submission questioning Sweden's support for Israel.

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The submission, signed by Hans Larsson in Solna, among others, is recognized by the Jewish Youth Association in Sweden.

«DN publishes submissions that call for the annihilation of the world's only Jewish state. Inexplicable that DN chooses to publish something that is overshadowed by anti-Semitism and factual errors. To show on different pages is one thing, to spread extremism another,» writes the association on X.< /p>

Below the submission — which has now been depublished from DN's website — can be read in its entirety.

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Israel has used up the trust that the UN gave 1947

SUBMITTER. Israel repeatedly violates international law and disregards law, morality and humanitarian considerations. Israel has thus used up the trust that the UN gave in 1947, writes Hans Larsson.

Sweden should act so that Resolution 181, which the UN General Assembly adopted in 1947, is declared invalid. Israel should be dissolved as a state, the territory returned to the Palestinians and the Israelis incorporated as a minority among other minorities in the country of Palestine.

This because Israel repeatedly violates international law, disregards law, morality and humanitarian considerations and for long ago used up the trust that the UN gave to statehood.

Now Israel has again attacked Lebanon, while the genocide in Gaza continues and reprisals against Palestinians and illegal settlements continue in the West Bank.

Indiscriminate bombings of schools and hospitals, murders of journalists, aid workers and UN staff, total indifference to civilian casualties — how can the world community tolerate this?

Add to that all the crimes against humanity such as the mass killings in Sabra and Shatila, the repression of minorities, the occupation of the Golan Heights and more.

Resolution 181 was a historic, catastrophic mistake. Time to correct it now.

Hans Larsson, Solna

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Published 3 October 2024 at 12.02

Domestic. The Muslim study association Ibn Rushd announces that they are discontinuing their activities after the National Board of Education decided to withdraw the state grant from 2025. The decision was made at an extra association meeting.

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Several municipalities and regions have recently also withdrawn their support for the association, which has received criticism for having linked to controversial texts about homosexuality and child molestation.

Gunnar Danielsson, chairman of the Study Association in Samverkan, says in a press release that the closure means a loss for diversity in Swedish public education.

However, others celebrate the decision. «Finally!», Riksdag member Jonas Andersson (SD) writes on X and continues:

«SD has worked more than any other party to put an end to the rolling of grants to this Islamist study association. And now they are dismantling themselves moreover. These are concrete results that we would not have seen now without SD and the Tidö agreement.»

Published 3 October 2024 at 13.00

Domestic. Two sisters have today been sentenced to one year and six months in prison each for gross sexual assault and assault against another woman. They were charged with aggravated rape, but the district court does not consider that the rape was completed.

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On the night of May 26, 2024, there was a fight during an apartment party in Rissne between five women. There were five more men and one woman in the apartment.

Initially, seven people were arrested on suspicion of a bloody gang rape in the apartment, where a woman was said to have been beaten and penetrated with an unknown object until injuries occurred in the abdomen.

Eventually all were released except two sisters, today 20 and 26 years old, who were born in Sweden to Iraqi parents.

According to the plaintiff, she was abused by the sisters in an apartment in Sundbyberg where a party was going on. According to the woman, the sisters stomped on her head, tore off her bikini bottoms and penetrated her abdomen with a blunt object.

The panties were later found by the police, thrown out of a window, and at Södersjukhuset injuries were discovered on the whole body in the form of bruises and lacerations. According to the doctor, an injury to the abdomen had a character that «suggests that it was caused by obliquely incident/scraping blunt force, such as tearing with an edged/uneven surface/object, nails or the like».

A group of young men in their 20s and 30s, some of whom are Swedes, are said to have been in the apartment when the incident took place. However, no one intervened.

In a call to SOS Alarm made by a neighbor, the plaintiff can be heard saying in the background: «They put things in my pussy. Don't you understand? In front of guys. Oh, the guys did that too» .

All of the young men in the apartment were initially arrested and three of them were later arrested. In questioning, the woman clarified that only the two sisters participated in the rape and that the young men in the apartment did not. The arrest was then lifted.

The sisters were charged with aggravated rape and assault. The 26-year-old is also charged with unlawful threats, as she threatened to kill the woman during the rape.

The 26-year-old has previously been convicted of money laundering and theft, while the 20-year-old has previously been unpunished.

Alternatively, the prosecutor requested that instead of aggravated rape, the women should be sentenced for aggravated sexual assault and assault. The prosecutor claimed both that the women brought an object into the plaintiff and that they brought an object to the plaintiff's abdomen.

The district court has assessed that the two women acted together. They have violently performed a sexual act that was intended to violate the plaintiff's sexual integrity by placing a hard object against the plaintiff's abdomen. The plaintiff suffered several injuries in the abdomen, one of which has been stitched.

— As it is not proven that the object was brought into the plaintiff, the district court has judged that the act is not a completed rape. The women are instead sentenced according to the prosecutor's alternative criminal classification for serious sexual assault and assault, says Councilor Ewa Lindbäck.

The sexual assault is considered serious because there were two people who assaulted the plaintiff or otherwise participated in the assault. . The 26-year-old woman is also convicted of illegal threats. Both women are sentenced to one year and six months in prison.

Published 3 October 2024 at 14.19

Domestic. Sweden Democrats' party leader Jimmie Åkesson is now sharpening the tone regarding Swedish citizenships given to third world immigrants.

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— We have a lot of Swedish passports that should not have Swedish passports, said Jimmie Åkesson in a debate with S leader Magdalena Andersson in SVT's «Aktuellt».

The debate was about the government's handling of the thousands of so-called Swedes who chose to stay remained in the country despite repeated warnings from Swedish authorities.

Magdalena Andersson put forward the opinion that Sweden should at least evacuate children from the war-torn country. But Åkesson instead focused on why there are a lot of «Swedes» in Lebanon at all.

— So you have come to Sweden as a refugee, then you have chosen to go back to a country you fled from , he said and continued:

— Then I wonder: What on earth do you do there?

Jimmie Åkesson did not dismiss the idea that children with Swedish citizenship could from their parents.

— If you as a parent choose to take your children to Lebanon, then you might not be a very good parent. Then maybe social authorities should get involved, he says.

Published 3 October 2024 at 16.06

Foreign. Two teenagers from Sweden, 16 and 19 years old, have now been detained in Copenhagen on suspicion of involvement in two explosions near the Israeli embassy on the night of Wednesday. The duo are believed to have links to the Foxtrot criminal network.

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The explosions caused material damage to a nearby building, but no one was injured.

According to prosecutor Søren Harbo, the teenagers are suspected of illegal possession of weapons and of having set off two hand grenades on a roof. They are also said to have transported three more hand grenades with explosive charges.

The police are now investigating whether the act may constitute a terrorist crime. Harbo states that the two teenagers did not act alone, but it is still unclear who they collaborated with or if the acts are connected to gang crime. The investigation will focus on the motive behind the bombings and whether the Israeli embassy was the main target.

The two teenagers were arrested at Copenhagen Central Station as they tried to catch a train to Germany, shortly after the explosions. A third Swedish citizen, also aged 19, who was also arrested in connection with the incident, has been released and is no longer a suspect, according to the prosecutor.

The police in Copenhagen are investigating whether there are links between the explosions in Copenhagen and the shooting at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm the day before. According to information provided to SVT, both acts were carried out on behalf of the criminal network Foxtrot, a hypothesis that the police are also working with.

The incidents have provoked strong reactions in both Sweden and Denmark. Sweden's Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard describes the situation to SVT as «extremely serious» and emphasizes the increased anti-Semitism and the deteriorating security situation since October 7. The Swedish government has begun close cooperation with the Danish government and the consequences of the explosions are being carefully investigated. At the same time, the police in Sweden have tightened the surveillance of important Jewish institutions and the Israeli embassy.

Published 3 October 2024 at 16.34

Domestic. An interpellation debate in the Riksdag had to be interrupted today after what was described as a bag of tomatoes and red onions was thrown from the audience gallery at Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M).

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The incident occurred after Stenergard answered a question about the situation of Palestinians in the Middle East. Three people have been arrested and the police are investigating the incident.

On a video recording of the incident, a man and a woman can be heard shouting that the foreign minister supports Israel's genocide.

The debate had to be interrupted for cleaning and the auditorium was emptied .

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson condemns the tomato attack.

— I now expect a thorough analysis of how this could happen and powerful measures to maintain the safety of members of parliament and ministers in the chamber, he says to Expressen.

Even Maria Malmer Stenergard expresses her concern, for Dagens Nyheter.

— You must be able to participate in the conversation, you must be able to participate in a debate without having things thrown at you one. Especially in the Riksdag's chamber, which is the room of the people elected, she tells DN.

Published 2 October 2024 at 09.13

Foreign. Two explosions occurred near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen during the night of Wednesday.

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The incidents took place at the intersection of Strandagervej and Lundevangsvej in Hellerup, an area where several embassies and consulates are located. No one was reported injured.

Police confirm the explosions occurred in the «immediate vicinity» of the Israeli embassy, ​​but Deputy Police Chief Jakob Hansen says it is still too early to determine whether there is a connection to the embassy.

No arrests have been made, and a large area around the scene has been cordoned off for further investigation.

The Israeli embassy in Denmark expresses its shock at the incident.

” We are shocked by the explosions near the embassy earlier today. We have full confidence in the Danish police in their handling of the case and the further investigation,» writes the embassy on X.

Published 2 October 2024 at 10.18

Domestic. The Public Health Agency has submitted a proposal to the government that vaccination against chicken pox should be included in the general childhood vaccination programme.

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The Public Health Agency stated last spring that vaccination against chicken pox meets the criteria for national vaccination programs. A proposal for introduction has subsequently been submitted for referral to the relevant bodies.

The views that have been received have now been taken into account in a proposal that has been handed over to the government for decision. If the government decides that vaccination against chickenpox should be included in the national child vaccination program, the vaccination will be free of charge.

— Since so many people in Sweden are infected with chickenpox, this proposal will have a big impact. Reducing the burden of disease in society is cost-effective, but also provides important protection to those who cannot vaccinate themselves, for example due to a weakened immune system, says Tina Crafoord, head of the unit for vaccination programs at the Public Health Agency, in a statement.

In the event of a possible decision to introduce a vaccine against chickenpox in the child vaccination program, the Public Health Authority intends to recommend that non-immune older children, up to the age of 18, be vaccinated.

The diseases chickenpox and shingles are both caused by varicella zoster virus. Chickenpox mainly occurs in children and usually heals on its own, but the virus remains in the body. Later in life, the virus can reactivate and cause the painful disease shingles. The Norwegian Public Health Authority has previously drawn up guidance for the regions on vaccination against shingles.

Published 2 October 2024 at 11.10

Domestic. The government's investigator, Anna Singer, will propose a ban on international adoptions to Sweden. But the issue is considered very sensitive and the publication of the investigation has been postponed until after Christmas, Expressen reports.

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The proposal comes after several reports of irregularities within the the international adoption business, especially in countries like Chile where children were adopted without the parents' consent.

The current inquiry was appointed in 2021 under the previous government to review whether Sweden's rules for international adoptions need to be tightened to strengthen legal certainty and protect the children .

During 2023, 73 children were adopted to Sweden, a sharp decrease from around 1,000 adoptions per year in the early 2000s. The investigation points out that despite the fact that the number of adoptions has decreased, the risks of child trafficking and other irregularities remain. A ban would, according to the investigation, also reduce the risk of children losing their identity and of children being exploited or ending up in inappropriate adoption processes.

This is a very sensitive proposal. According to Expressen, the commission has chosen to postpone the publication of the report until after the Christmas holidays to avoid it evoking strong reactions among adoptees and their families during a sensitive time of the year. The investigation also proposes that crisis and conversation support should be offered to adoptees and their families in order to deal with the emotional impact that the proposal may have.

However, the proposal has met opposition from, among others, the Adoption Center, which believes that the investigation already decided early on advocate a ban without carefully considering other options. According to the Adoptionscentrum, it would be better to strengthen control and security in the adoption process than to ban international adoptions completely.

Published 2 October 2024 at 12.26

Law & Justice. The prosecutor's decision to drop the preliminary investigation against Richard Jomshof (SD) has been appealed and will now be reviewed by a special department within the Public Prosecutor's Office. This is reported by SVT Nyheter.

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In May, Jomshof was reported to the police for incitement against a ethnic group by the so-called Nähatasgranskaren after sharing cartoons critical of Islam on social media.< /p>

Chief prosecutor Joakim Zander recently unexpectedly decided to drop the investigation. This after Jomshof explained in questioning that the aim was to participate in a debate about migration, not to single out immigrants as criminals.

The cyber threat inspector has now appealed the decision, and the case will be reviewed by the Development Centre, a department which functions as a second legal instance within the Public Prosecutor's Office. However, changes to prosecutors' decisions in such cases are rare.

Neither Zander nor Jomshof have commented on the matter further.

Published 2 October 2024 at 13.41

Domestic. The government has presented a new bill which means that asylum seekers will, as a general rule, live in the Migration Agency's accommodation instead of arranging accommodation on their own.

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In Sweden, asylum seekers live in their own accommodation to an extent that has no equivalent in other comparable countries. According to the government, this is associated with significant negative consequences both for the asylum seekers and for society, in the form of, among other things, overcrowding and so-called segregation.

The government is proposing changes to the law that aim to create a new order for asylum seekers' housing, where the starting point is that asylum seekers must live in the Migration Agency's housing instead of arranging housing on their own.

— The government has today presented legislative proposals that must create a new order for asylum seekers' accommodation. It is an important step to eventually phase out the old system of own accommodation for asylum seekers. The aim is to get the reception process in order for a more efficient asylum examination, shorten processing times and reduce segregation and exclusion, says Migration Minister Johan Forssell (M).

The proposals mean, among other things, that as a general rule, asylum seekers should only be entitled to financial assistance during the asylum period if they live in the asylum accommodation they have been allocated. The Swedish Migration Agency is given the opportunity to examine asylum seekers' accommodation and storage spaces in the asylum accommodation, in order to check that the asylum seeker lives in the allocated accommodation, and an application for a residence permit may be regarded as revoked for asylum seekers who do not live in an asylum accommodation and do not keep the Migration Agency informed of their residential address.

It is also proposed a statutory obligation for asylum seekers to participate in community introduction.

— This is an important first step in gaining control over the asylum reception and reducing both social exclusion and preventing a growing shadow society. More measures in this direction will be presented during October, says the Sweden Democrats' migration policy spokesperson Ludvig Aspling.

The changes to the law are proposed to enter into force on March 1, 2025.

Published 2 October 2024 at 15.02

Foreign. UN Secretary General António Guterres has become persona non grata in Israel and is no longer welcome to visit the country.

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The decision was made after Israel's foreign minister, Israel Katz, criticized Guterres for not sharply enough condemning Iran's latest robot attack against Israel.

Katz believes that António Guterres through his actions shows support for what he calls «terrorists, rapists and murderers».

After Iran's attack, Guterres briefly commented on the events by calling for an immediate end to the violence in the region and calling for a ceasefire.

«I condemn the expansion of the conflict in the Middle East, with escalation after escalation . This has to stop. We have to get a truce,» commented António Guterres

Published 2 October 2024 at 16.33

Foreign. Former US President Donald Trump has sharply criticized President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris after the Iranian retaliatory attack on Israel. Trump says the Democratic Party leadership has failed to contain Iran, and that their policies are bringing the world closer to global war.

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During a campaign rally in Waunakee, Wisconsin, as well as via his social network Truth Social, Donald Trump condemned the Biden administration's handling of the conflict in the Middle East.

He claimed that Iran during his presidency was «in desperate need of money, fully under control and eager to reach a settlement».

Trump also accused Kamala Harris of «flooding Iran with American money», which according to him has led to increased terrorism in the region. «War or the threat of war is going on everywhere, and the two incompetent people running this country are leading us to the brink of World War III,» he warned.

The Iranian attack came in response to Israel's killing of senior Hamas and Hezbollah leaders on Iranian and Lebanese soil. While both Iran and Israel have given conflicting accounts of the effectiveness of the missile attack, Israel is expected to respond militarily soon, according to media reports.

Support for Israel remains strong within both major political parties in the United States, with nearly all members of Congress receiving paid for by the Israel lobby. But the Democrats have begun to face criticism from some of their own voters. The protests against the US' continued arms shipments to Israel have become increasingly tangible. The so-called «uncommitted» movement has previously threatened not to vote for Biden unless he exerts pressure on Israel to bring about a ceasefire.

Trump used his criticism of Biden and Harris to alert voters to the upcoming presidential election. He believed that a victory for the Democrats would lead the world towards a global catastrophe.

— If the Democrats win the election next month, the world will go up in smoke, he said, emphasizing that he could handle the situation better than the current one the administration.