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Swedish child escapes with minor injuries after falling five floors

A four-year-old girl is under hospital observation after falling from the seventh floor of a multi-storey house in Gothenburg on Saturday.

Published: 24 March 2019 13:59 CET
Swedish child escapes with minor injuries after falling five floors
File photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

The girl’s injuries were initially considered serious, but the press department at the city’s Sahlgrenska hospital said on Sunday morning that her injuries were classed as minor, P4 Göteborg reports.

“For unknown reasons, she fell from the seventh floor and landed on a metal roof at the level of the second floor,” police press spokesperson Hans Lippens told TT.

The girl’s parents were questioned by police on Saturday night, and a forensic examination of the apartment was carried out. Neighbours also spoke police officers, according to the news agency.

Police confirmed that several elements of the incident suggest possible negligence, and that they have therefore begun preliminary investigations on this basis.

The parents were released at 2am on Sunday after a decision by police prosecutors, but remain under investigation, TT writes.

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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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