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Police investigate YouTube death threat

Gothenburg police have launched an investigation into a video posted on YouTube, in which a masked man threatens to execute a number of people at a shopping centre in the city later this week.

Published: 28 October 2008 18:44 CET
Police investigate YouTube death threat

A visitor to the YouTube site alerted police to the content of the video on Tuesday.

“We are taking the threats very seriously,” police spokesman Stefan Gustafsson told the TT news agency.

In the video, which is of very poor technical quality, a man wearing a hood, dark glasses and a scarf addresses the camera and speaks of his plans for a bloodbath at the Nordstan shopping centre.

“The nasty old men will be executed. October 30th, 12.30, Nordstan. I swear, they’re going to die,” he says.

“His voice is distorted and it is difficult in places to hear what he is saying, but the main thrust is that there will be people killed or murdered at Nordstan at lunch time on Thursday,” said Gustafsson.

Police said they were now focusing on identifying the person or people behind the video and securing the area in and around the shopping centre.

POLITICS

Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Green Party and Left Party have managed to oust the right-wing Moderates from power in Gothenburg, despite failing to strike a coalition deal with the Centre Party.

Published: 28 October 2022 15:34 CEST
Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Left Party and Green Party will now take over the municipality with Jonas Attenius, group leader for the Social Democrats in the city, becoming the new mayor.

“We three parties are ready to together take responsibility for leading Gothenburg,” Attenius wrote to TT. “I am looking forward immensely to leading Gothenburg in the coming years.” 

The three parties will lead a minority government, with 40 out of 81 mandates, meaning it will dependent on mandates from the Centre Party to pass proposals. 

The three parties had hoped to bring the Centre Party into the coalition, but talks fell apart on Monday,  October 24th. 

“We our going into opposition, but our goal is to be an independent, liberal force, which can negotiate both to the left and to the right,” the party’s group leader in Gothenburg, Emmyly Bönfors told the Göteborgs-Posten newspaper. 

The end of talks in Gothenburg leave the Social Democrats leading coalition governments in all three of Sweden’s major cities, with Karin Wanngård appointed Mayor of Stockholm on October 17th. 

The Social Democrats had unbroken control in Malmö since 1994, after they regained power from the Moderates, who controlled the city from 1991-1994, and also from 1985-1988. 

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