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Teenage refugee shot in the face

A 16-year-old refugee was shot and severely injured in Eslöv, southern Sweden, on Saturday evening at a refugee housing facility.

Published: 16 October 2011 09:55 CEST
Updated: 10 April 2012 13:26 CEST

Skåne police have arrested a 21-year-old man, suspected of attempted murder of the younger boy.

The 21-year-old was arrested just before 4am, on the night between Saturday and Sunday. By then the boy had been taken to Skåne’s University Hospital in Lund.

“We’re classifying it as attempted murder,” Helena Ralmark, press officer at the Skåne police force, confirmed to news agency TT.

The teenager was in serious but stable condition, reported the Skåne police during the night.

A 19-year-old man was first arrested, suspected of being accessory to the attempted murder, after having been identified by witnesses.

The arrested 21-year-old and 19-year-old are both known to the police, as they have both had previous involvement in drug offenses.

According to the police, the 19-year-old was under the influence of drugs when arrested.

Police are still uncertain what caused the shooting and witnesses are currently being questioned about the incident.

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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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