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Two arrested in connection with murder of Malmö teen

Two men have been arrested suspected of being complicit in the murder of a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed in Malmö last January.

Published: 4 April 2017 07:58 CEST
Two arrested in connection with murder of Malmö teen
Floral tributes at the bus stop where 16-year-old Ahmed Obaid was shot and killed last January. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

The same two men had been arrested last week suspected of being involved in a different murder of a 23-year-old man in the same city, newspaper Sydsvenskan reports.

It had previously been speculated that there is a link between the two murders. The 23-year-old killed last week is reportedly a witness in the investigation of the shooting of the 16-year-old, arriving at the scene shortly after he was shot and taking a photograph which he then uploaded to social media. The 23-year-old explained to police that he did so in order to prove that he was there to help, according to the newspaper.

The fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ahmed Obaid at a bus stop in Malmö’s Rosengård district sent shockwaves through the local community, leading to hundreds of friends, families and neighbours taking part in a defiant demonstration in his memory. No one has been arrested for carrying out the murder.

READ ALSO: Hundreds mourn teen murdered in Rosengård

Last Thursday meanwhile, seven men were arrested in connection with the murder of a 23-year-old on the city’s Ramels väg road. Of the seven, one man has been remanded in custody on reasonable suspicion of murder, and two other men remanded suspected of complicity in the murder.

The other four were formally released on Monday while still under suspicion, but two of the released men were subsequently arrested and detained once more soon after – this time for complicity in the murder of 16-year-old Obaid, Sydsvenskan reports.

The chief prosecutor would not confirm whether the murders are linked and if it is the same two people arrested for the two murders.

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Swedish appeals court throws out Tesla licence plate complaint

A Swedish appeals court rejected Tesla's attempt to force the Transport Agency to provide them with licence plates during an ongoing strike.

Published: 17 May 2024 10:54 CEST
Swedish appeals court throws out Tesla licence plate complaint

The Göta Court of Appeal upheld a decision by the district court to throw out a request by US car manufacturer Tesla to force the Swedish Transport Agency to provide them with licence plates, on the grounds that a general court does not have jurisdiction in this case.

The district court and court of appeal argued that Tesla should instead have taken its complaint to an administrative court (förvaltningsdomstol) rather than a general court (allmän domstol).

According to the rules regulating the Transport Agency’s role in issuing licence plates in Sweden, their decisions should be appealed to an administrative court – a separate part of the court system which tries cases involving a Swedish public authority, rather than criminal cases or disputes between individuals which are tried by the general courts.

The dispute arose after postal service Postnord, in solidarity with a major strike by the Swedish metalworkers’ union, refused to deliver licence plates to Tesla, and the Transport Agency argued it wasn’t their responsibility to get the plates to Tesla in some other way.

The strike against Tesla has been going on for almost seven months.

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