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Ten year sentence for Gamla Stan shooting

The 41-year-old man who in April tried to kill a couple in Sweden’s historic Gamla Stan district has been sentenced to ten years in prison for attempted murder.

Ten year sentence for Gamla Stan shooting
Police examine the crime scene for clues following the Gamla Stan shooting

The 41-year-old bouncer was also ordered by the Stockholm District Court to pay each of his victims 100,000 kronor ($12,700) in damages.

After having remained mum for much of the investigation, the 41-year-old finally confessed during his trial last week that he was the one who pulled the trigger.

He admitted that he wanted to kill the man, a member of Sweden’s aristocracy, but that he had no intention of hurting the man’s girlfriend, who was several months pregnant at the time of shooting.

After waiting for the couple near the Tyska Stallplan square on the late afternoon of April 21st, the 41-year-old fired off several shots, hitting both the man and his girlfriend.

The man was seriously wounded, sustaining gunshot wounds to the neck, head, and arm. The woman was hit in the face, but her unborn child was unharmed and was born a few weeks later.

During the trial, the 41-year-old gave his version of events during which he explained that he wanted to kill the man because he was convinced the man was sexually abusing his own children.

But the court found the man’s explanation lacked credibility.

The court considered the case one of an “extraordinarily serious” violent crime which required planning and was meant to execute two people.

Despite the man’s claims that he didn’t want to kill the woman, the court wrote in its ruling that his intention couldn’t have been anything other than to kill her.

The sentence is equivalent to the minimum sentence had the man succeeded in carrying out the killings, according to the court.

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Stockholm Pride is a little different this year: here’s what you need to know 

This week marks the beginning of Pride festivities in the Swedish capital. The tickets sold out immediately, for the partly in-person, partly digital events. 

Pride parade 2019
There won't be a Pride parade like the one in 2019 on the streets of Stockholm this year. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist/TT

You might have noticed rainbow flags popping up on major buildings in Stockholm, and on buses and trams. Sweden has more Pride festivals per capita than any other country and is the largest Pride celebration in the Nordic region, but the Stockholm event is by far the biggest.  

The Pride Parade, which usually attracts around 50,000 participants in a normal year, will be broadcast digitally from Södra Teatern on August 7th on Stockholm Pride’s website and social media. The two-hour broadcast will be led by tenor and debater Rickard Söderberg.

The two major venues of the festival are Pride House, located this year at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm at Skanstull in Södermalm, and Pride Stage, which is at Södra Teatern near Slussen.

“We are super happy with the layout and think it feels good for us as an organisation to slowly return to normal. There are so many who have longed for it,” chairperson of Stockholm Pride, Vix Herjeryd, told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

Tickets are required for all indoor events at Södra Teatern to limit the number of people indoors according to pandemic restrictions. But the entire stage programme will also be streamed on a big screen open air on Mosebacketerassen, which doesn’t require a ticket.  

You can read more about this year’s Pride programme on the Stockholm Pride website (in Swedish). 

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