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Police suspect double murder in Stockholm

Two people were found dead in an apartment in Tullinge, in south Stockholm, on Wednesday, in what police are considering to be a suspicious death.

Published: 15 February 2012 13:15 CET

Police suspect double murder in Stockholm

”We received a call about a brawl in a flat just before 8.44am. The patrol which was despatched found two deceased people,” said police press spokesman Sven-Erik Olsson to news agency TT.

Police have confirmed that the two victims had been subjected to physical violence.

When officers arrived at the apartment there were no other people there. A preliminary investigation into the incident has been launched, classified by the police as murder or alternatively manslaughter.

”We don’t actually know what has happened, if more are involved or if something has happened between the two people in the flat. But we are working from the hypothesis that it is a criminal act,” said Ulf Lindgren of the county police to Aftonbladet.

Police are currently carrying out a forensic investigation and are questioning people in neighbouring apartments.

Police were unwilling to divulge any particulars about the two victims at the early stage in the investigation.

”All I can say is that they were not previously known to us,” Lindgren told the paper.

Later in the afternoon on Wednesday, police confirmed that the two victims were a man and a woman in their mid-sixties.

Soon after they issued a warrant for the arrest of one suspect who is reportedly male and in his forties.

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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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