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Four in custody after major cannabis bust in Stockholm

Police in Stockholm confiscated 140 kilogrammes of cannabis and arrested four men last weekend in raids carried out at several suburban locations last weekend.

Published: 12 December 2008 08:31 CET

The raids took place at addresses in the suburbs of Solna and Tyesö and the suspects were remanded in custody on Wednesday.

The bust was the largest by the Stockholm police in quite some time.

“In recent years the biggest seizure has been around 50 to 50 kilos. If you compare with that, this is really big,” said Bo Eliasson of the Stockholm police to the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.

The raids came after several weeks of surveillance in Solna and Tyresö following the arrest in November of a man in connection with the seizure of 10 kilogrammes of cannabis.

According to a statement on their website, police believe one of the suspects arrested at the weekend is responsible for supplying the drug taken in the November arrest.

Police estimate the cannabis confiscated during the weekend raids has a street value between 9 and 15 million kronor ($1.1 to 1.8 million).

While the investigation is in its early stages, police expect to involve both Europol and Interpol as the suspects have ties to other countries.

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Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.

Published: 5 October 2023 17:11 CEST
Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that
a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.

“We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word ‘bomb’ in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,” the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.

The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologised on his club’s website.

“I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn’t joke about, especially in that place,” he said in a statement.

According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.

“This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,” prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.

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