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Stockholm police make two huge cocaine busts

In the span of just a few weeks, Stockholm County police have made two large cocaine busts.

Stockholm police make two huge cocaine busts

In total, police confiscated a total of 14 kilogrammes of the drug, with an estimated street value of around 20 million kronor ($2.5 million), reports Kriminalkanalen.

According to police, the busts are among the largest in recent memory. By comparison, police confiscated a total of 15 kilogrammes of cocaine last year in the entire country.

The new busts, carried out against two different criminal gangs with roots in the former Yugoslavia and South America, took place in the Stockholm area.

Six men and one woman are in custody on suspicions of serious drugs offences.

Charges have now also been filed against the buyer in the deal, as police succeeded penetrating every level of the drug network: importers, wholesalers, street sellers, and buyers.

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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.

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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