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Three years in prison for brutal knife attack

A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to three years in prison for brutally attacking and stabbing a Gothenburg cab driver when it was time to pay the bill.

Published: 8 September 2012 10:29 CEST

The attack occurred earlier this summer during Metaltown, a hard rock festival in Gothenburg. The 23-year-old attended the festival, and when leaving chose to take a cab back together with two friends, according to the newspaper Expo.

When they arrived to their destination, however, instead of bringing out his wallet the 23-year-old brought out his knife and pressed it against the driver’s throat.

The 23-year-old is an active member of the Nazi organization Right Wing Resistance, reports Expo. The organization is originally from New Zealand, but a few members have started up a local wing in Sweden.

The cab driver was stuck in the driver’s seat during the attack, with the seatbelt still attached, and was unable to free himself as the knife-wielding 23-year-old attacked him.

In the court room he said that as he pleaded for his life, the 23-year-old allegedly responded “You don’t understand anything, the idea is to slaughter you”.

As the cab driver finally succeeded in fleeing, he managed to alert police and an ambulance to the scene.

Despite the 23-year-old denying all crimes, the district court sentenced him to 3 years in prison for the attack.

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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.

Published: 28 October 2022 15:34 CEST
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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