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Two men held for Stockholm murder

Two men have been detained on suspicion of murdering a man in an apartment in Hässelby strand in wester Stockholm on Saturday night.

Published: 17 May 2009 10:50 CEST

A 45-50 year-old man was found by police late on Saturday night dead in an apartment in the western Stockholm suburb.

Police had been called to the scene by neighbours who responded to screaming and shouting in the apartment.

“Two people are arrested and detained on suspicion of murder,” said Gert Fredlin at Stockholm police to news agency TT.

The men were still in the apartment when the police arrived but were so inebriated that no sensible information could be solicited from them.

A knife was found outside of the apartment block. Police were on Sunday unable to confirm if it was the murder weapon.

Police are reticent over the details of the case, in part out of respect to the relatives of the deceased.

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POLITICS

‘A group of Nazis’: Masked men attack Swedish anti-fascism meeting

Several masked men burst into a Stockholm theatre on Wednesday night and set off smoke bombs during an anti-fascism event, Swedish police and participants said.

Published: 25 April 2024 06:08 CEST
'A group of Nazis': Masked men attack Swedish anti-fascism meeting

Around 50 people were taking part in the event at the Gubbängen theatre in a southern suburb of the Swedish capital, organised by the Left Party and the Green Party.

“Three people were taken by ambulance to hospital,” the police said on its website, adding that it had no information about the injuries suffered.

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According to the Expo anti-racism magazine, which had been invited to give a presentation at the event, “a group of Nazis” came into the theatre foyer just before the event was to begin and threw smoke bombs into the hall.

“The Nazis attacked visitors using physical violence… (and) vandalised the premises before throwing a type of smoke bomb that filled the entrance hall with smoke,” Expo wrote on its website.

“It’s terrible that a meeting organised by the left-wing party has been attacked,” said Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, quoted by the TT news agency.

“This type of hateful behaviour has no place in our free and open society,” he said, adding that he had contacted the party’s leader to express his “deepest support”.

All of Sweden’s political parties denounced the assault as an “attack on democracy”, TT said.

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar told public broadcaster SVT that an “open event, for equality among individuals” was “violently attacked by those who seemed to be Nazis”.

She also called on “all political forces” to fight the “far right that threatens our democracy”.

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