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Man stabbed to death at bikers’ meet up

A man in his forties was killed Saturday night following a fight at a camp ground in Småland, in the south of Sweden.

Man stabbed to death at bikers' meet up

The man was sitting in a car in the camping area, along with some others, when the group was attacked by several people.

During the altercation, the man was stabbed in the chest with an unknown object.

“Several people were involved in the attack on this man,” Bengt Netterström, duty officer with the Jönköping County police, said to newspaper Aftonbladet.

The man was taken to a nearby hospital, but died from his injuries about an hour later.

Police first received reports of the stabbing just before midnight, and have since conducted a large number of interrogations throughout the night.

A forensic investigation of the crime scene has also been carried out, but a suspect is yet to be found for the crime.

The campground where the fight took place was the site of a large bikers’ meet up taking place all weekend.

Roughly 5,000 bikers were in the area, as well as a large number of police officers.

“There was a lot of people affiliated with different motorcycle clubs attending, which was why we had a number of police officers there even before the event,” Gunnar Rydholm of the Jönköping police told Aftonbladet.

The police have now commenced preliminary investigations of manslaughter.

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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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