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Swedish police forced to release murderer

Police in Norrbotten have been forced to release a 30-year-old man convicted in is absence of a murder in France.

Police in the northern Swedish county arrested the Kazakh national in the town of Boden after an international warrant had been put out for his arrest.

But regional police said they had to release the murderer after French authorities failed to retrieve him before the ten day maximum detention period had elapsed.

The man had managed to escape justice in a number of countries before being arrested in Sweden on January 28th. French police were informed of the arrest via Interpol before Luleå District Court ruled in February that the man should be extradited.

But four hours before the end of the ten day time limit, French police got in touch to say that they would not make it in time to retrieve the man. Police in Norrbotten were left with no option but to release him.

The man is now believed by police to have fled Sweden.

LANDSLIDE

Swedish authorities: Worker negligence behind motorway landslide

Swedish authorities said on Thursday that worker negligence at a construction site was believed to be behind a landslide that tore apart a motorway in western Sweden in September.

Swedish authorities: Worker negligence behind motorway landslide

The landslide, which struck the E6 highway in Stenungsund, 50 kilometres north of Sweden’s second-largest city Gothenburg, ripped up a petrol station car park, overturned lorries and caved in the roof of a fast food restaurant.

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Prosecutor Daniel Veivo Pettersson said on Thursday he believed “human factors” were behind the landslide as “no natural cause” had been found during the investigation.

He told a press conference the landslide had been triggered by a nearby construction site where too much excavated material had been piled up, putting excessive strain on the ground below. 

“At this stage, we consider it negligent, in this case grossly negligent, to have placed so much excavated material on the site,” Pettersson said.

Pettersson added that three people were suspected of among other things gross negligence and causing bodily harm, adding that the investigation was still ongoing.

The worst-hit area covered around 100 metres by 150 metres, but the landslide affected an area of around 700 metres by 200 metres in total, according to emergency services.

Three people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after the collapse, according to authorities.

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