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Guard shot himself dead at PM’s home: report

A security guard shot himself dead at Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt’s official residence in Stockholm on Friday, according to reports.

Guard shot himself dead at PM's home: report

Police were alerted shortly after 1pm on Friday and emergency services including three swat teams gathered outside the prime minister’s official residence, Sagerska Palatset in central Stockholm.

Stockholm police spokeswoman Towe Hägg told the TT news agency that Swedish security service Säpo, which manages the prime minister’s security detail, had not been brought into the investigation.

“We are aware that something has happened at Sagerska Palace today, but we haven’t been formally called in,” Säpo spokeswoman Sirpa Franzén told TT.

The prime minister was not in the house at the time of the incident.

“Fredrik Reinfeldt is fine and on an external visit. He is not at Sagerska,” Roberta Alenius, Reinfeldt’s press secretary told Expressen.

Svensk Bevakningstjänst confirmed for TT that it was one of its employees that had died.

“He has worked here since 2006,” said Anders Lönnebo, CEO of Svensk Bevakningstjänst.

The guard had the right to bear arms and Lönnebo denied that there were any signs the man had been feeling unwell, stating that it was “rather the opposite”.

The company has since informed the man’s relatives.

“We offer our condolences, this is a tragic incident,” Lönnebo said.

Sven-Erik Olsson of the Stockholm police confirmed that the guard was found by a colleague.

“He was found by a colleague in a smaller room with injuries that came from his own weapon,” he told TT.

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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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