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Dead man dumped at Karolinska hospital

A man was dumped at Karolinska University hospital in Solna on Saturday morning. The man, in his twenties, was later declared dead and had according to police been stabbed to death.

Published: 18 October 2008 09:49 CEST
Dead man dumped at Karolinska hospital

The car driver that dumped the body at the hospital left the scene and is now wanted by police.

Police were unwilling to comment on the make of car that they are looking for, but confirm that they have identified the car’s owner and that the car has not been reported stolen.

Earlier on Saturday morning a further two men were found stabbed near the exit to the E4 motorway in Kista in northern Stockholm.

One of the men has serious stomach injuries and is now under an anaesthetic, police report. The other has minor injuries.

Police believe that the two incidents could be linked.

“It seems that way, yes,” said Birgitta Ejremyr at north Stockholm police.

Police are now searching the area around where the two men were found to see if there are any further injured parties.

STABBING

French prosecutor says Paris suburb stabbing treated as suspected terror attack

French anti-terrorist investigators said on Saturday they have taken over the probe into an attack by a knife-wielding man in a park south of Paris.

Published: 5 January 2020 07:18 CET
French prosecutor says Paris suburb stabbing treated as suspected terror attack
A police forensic team at the scene of the attack in Villejuif. Photo: Christophe Archambault/AFP
The man killed one person walking with his wife before being shot dead by police.
 
Police said the man, identified as 22-year-old Nathan C., attacked several people around lunchtime Friday in the suburb of Villejuif and they initially treated the incident as a criminal not terrorist incident.
   
But in a statement, the French national anti-terrorist investigation body (PNAT) said that while Nathan C. was known to have had psychiatric problems, worrying evidence had also emerged about his conversion to Islam and radicalisation.
   
“Investigations over the past few hours have allowed us to establish that he was certainly radicalised (and to show)… organised preparation for his move towards the act,” the statement said.
   
Additionally, they “showed a murderous path, thought out and chosen, of such a nature as to gravely disturb public order by intimidation or terror,” it said.
 
 
Earlier a local magistrate told a press conference that Nathan C. had shouted the Muslim invocation “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) during the attack.
   
Nathan C. converted to Islam in mid-2017 and is believed to have suffered serious psychiatric problems since he was child, with several spells in hospital. In June he stopped receiving the treatment he was being given.
   
Police found literature characterised as Salafist in a bag after the attack, Philippe Bugeaud of the Paris investigative police told the press conference.
   
There was also a letter “with phrases fairly typical of a Muslim man who self-flagellates and who knows that he may be about to take the plunge,” Bugeaud added.
   
Nathan C.'s apartment in Paris also bore “every sign that it was going to be no longer lived in,” magistrate Laure Beccuau said.
   
Nathan C. apparently spared a first person who said he was a Muslim and had recited a prayer in Arabic, she said.
   
He then attacked the couple, killing the husband and seriously injuring the wife before wounding a woman jogger in the back. Beccuau said the two women had now left hospital.
   
France remains on high alert after being hit by a string of attacks by jihadist extremists since 2015, with more than 250 people killed in total.
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