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Police hunt man after woman found dead

Police are hunting a 40-year-old man after a woman was found dead in a suburb of Stockholm on Saturday.

Published: 25 May 2013 18:21 CEST

Stockholm have confirmed only that a preliminary investigation into murder has been launched.

“I can confirm that it is a woman who is dead and that a preliminary murder investigation has been launched,” said Stefan Sjölund at Roslags police to the TT news agency.

Sniffer dogs and a helicopter have been deployed in the search for the man.

Police were called to the scene at around 11am on Saturday after the discovery of the woman’s body in the Gribbylund area of Täby in north-eastern Stockholm.

A large area around the suspected crime scene has been cordoned off and police technicians have arrived at the scene, according to a report in the Aftonbladet daily.

A local resident told the newspaper’s reporter that he had been asked if he had seen a man in his forties dressed in grey jogging pants.

The police are focusing their search in woodland near the Gribbylund residential area.

A block of flats has been cordoned off and residents of the building have been urged to remain indoors, according to the report.

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Over a thousand people join protest against Stockholm attack

The demonstration, which was organised by the Left Party and the Green Party together with Expo, an anti-extremist magazine, was held outside the Moment theatre, where masked assailants attacked a lecture organised by the two parties on Wednesday.

In the attack, the assailants – described as Nazis by Expo – let off smoke grenades and assaulted several people, three of whom were hospitalised.

“Let’s say it how it is: this was a terror attack and that is something we can never accept,” said Amanda Lind, who is expected to be voted in as the joint leader of the Green Party on Sunday.

She said that those who had attended the lecture had hoped to swap ideas about how to combat racism.

“Instead they had to experience smoke bombs, assault and were forced to think ‘have they got weapons’?. The goal of this attack was to use violence to generate fear and silence people,” she said.

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More than a thousand people gathered to protest the attack on a theatre in Gubbängen, Stockholm. Photo: Oscar Olsson/TT

Nooshi Dadgostar, leader of the Left Party, said that that society needed to stand up against this type of extreme-right violence.

“We’re here today to show that which should be obvious: we will not give up, we will stand up for ourselves, and we shall never be silenced by racist violence,” said said.

Sofia Zwahlen, one of the protesters at the demonstration, told the DN newspaper that it felt positive that so many had turned up to show their opposition to the attacks.

“It feels extremely good that there’s been this reaction, that we are coming together. I’m always a little worried about going to this sort of demonstration. But this feels safe.”

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