A 57-year-old Somali man was arrested in Sweden early Monday suspected of genocide in Somalia, police told AFP.
“The man was arrested in Lund and immediately transferred to Gothenburg,” on the southwestern coast, a police spokesman in Lund told AFP.
Police declined to disclose any other information but in its online edition, tabloid Aftonbladet identified the man as Abdi Qeybdiid, the right-hand man to late Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid in the 1990s.
AFP
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is expected in France on Sunday, French authorities said, as tensions rise over rallies abroad to help Ankara gain backing for a key vote.
His visit to the eastern French city of Metz was “confirmed”, a local official told AFP on Saturday. Alain Carton said the meeting was due to be held in an auditorium and had been organised by a local Turkish association.
Cavusoglu was expected in the afternoon, he said, adding that the visit had been cleared by the French foreign ministry.
“The prefecture has been charged with ensuring security… (and to ensure) there is no disruption to public order,” he said.
Cavusoglu was to travel to the Netherlands on Saturday for a rally to gather support for a referendum on boosting the powers of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but officials there barred his plane from landing, sparking a furious reaction from Ankara.
Germany and the Netherlands have both banned rallies seeking support from Turkish expatriates for the April 16 referendum seeking to extend Erdogan's powers.
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