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Woman held after human bones found in her flat

A Gothenburg woman is being held on murder suspicions after police found parts of a human skeleton in her apartment on Wednesday while responding to a call that she had been firing a weapon from her window.

Woman held after human bones found in her flat

Police received quite a shock when they responded to the call about gunfire coming from a flat on Kosmosgatan in the Bergsjön district of Gothenburg.

When the entered the woman’s home, they not only found a weapon, but also human bones.

The woman is now being held on suspicion of murder, with an alternative charge of manslaughter.

“We can’t rule out that she hasn’t killed someone,” police spokesperson Thomas Fuxborg told told the local Göteborgs-Posten (GP) newspaper.

Speaking with the TT news agency, Fuxborg explained there were “lots of bones” but emphasized police still don’t know how they ended up in the apartment.

“They can also have been taken from graves, a hospital, or something like that,” he said.

When police found the bones in the woman’s apartment on Wednesday night, forensic investigators were called in to confirm they were in fact human bones.

So far, police have not received any explanation as to why the woman had bones in her apartment.

“The woman isn’t someone we’ve had any previous contact with,” Fuxborg told TT.

“She was alone in the apartment.”

There is also no evidence that someone who lives in the apartment might be missing.

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POLITICS

Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Green Party and Left Party have managed to oust the right-wing Moderates from power in Gothenburg, despite failing to strike a coalition deal with the Centre Party.

Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Left Party and Green Party will now take over the municipality with Jonas Attenius, group leader for the Social Democrats in the city, becoming the new mayor.

“We three parties are ready to together take responsibility for leading Gothenburg,” Attenius wrote to TT. “I am looking forward immensely to leading Gothenburg in the coming years.” 

The three parties will lead a minority government, with 40 out of 81 mandates, meaning it will dependent on mandates from the Centre Party to pass proposals. 

The three parties had hoped to bring the Centre Party into the coalition, but talks fell apart on Monday,  October 24th. 

“We our going into opposition, but our goal is to be an independent, liberal force, which can negotiate both to the left and to the right,” the party’s group leader in Gothenburg, Emmyly Bönfors told the Göteborgs-Posten newspaper. 

The end of talks in Gothenburg leave the Social Democrats leading coalition governments in all three of Sweden’s major cities, with Karin Wanngård appointed Mayor of Stockholm on October 17th. 

The Social Democrats had unbroken control in Malmö since 1994, after they regained power from the Moderates, who controlled the city from 1991-1994, and also from 1985-1988. 

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