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Boyfriend held for woman’s fatal stabbing

A woman was found dead late Saturday night, in a summer residence area in Österåker, just north-east of Stockholm. A man has been arrested, suspected of stabbing the woman to death with a knife.

Boyfriend held for woman's fatal stabbing

The victim and suspect were in a relationship.

During the night, several police officers reported that the suspected murder weapon, a knife, was still in the woman’s body when the first officers arrived to the suspected crime scene.

Nils Fyhr, head of the local Roslagen police station, was unable to confirm this information on Sunday morning. He was also unwilling to comment on whether any murder weapon had been found.

“All we can say is that the woman probably died of knife wounds. We think she was killed and that it was a stabbing,” he said to news agency TT.

The police were alerted of the killing just before 1am, when a person called the police after having found her body.

The suspect was arrested just 20 minutes later, a man whom the murder victim had a relationship with, according to the police.

The woman was found in a summer residence area, but police were unwilling to divulge whether the body was found indoors or outdoors.

There is no known motive to the crime, although police have yet to interrogate the suspect. However, several people who may have information about the crime have been interviewed.

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Stockholm court fines Greta Thunberg over parliament climate protest

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was handed a fine for disobeying police orders after blocking access to Sweden's parliament during a protest.

Stockholm court fines Greta Thunberg over parliament climate protest

Police removed Thunberg on March 12th and 14th after she refused to leave the main entrance, where she was protesting with a small group of activists for several days. MPs could still access the building via secondary entrances.

The court said it fined the activist 6,000 Swedish kronor ($551) and ordered her to pay 1,000 kronor in damages and interest.

Thunberg denied the charges of two counts of civil disobedience, according to an AFP journalist at the hearing.

Asked by the judge why she had not obeyed police orders, she replied: “Because there was a (climate) emergency and there still is. And in an emergency, we all have a duty to act.”

“The current laws protect the extractive industries instead of protecting people and the planet, which is what I believe should be the case,” she said as she left the courtroom.

Thunberg has been fined twice before in Sweden, in July and October 2023, for civil disobedience during similar protests.

In February, a London judge dropped charges against her for disturbing the peace during a demonstration against the oil industry in October in the British capital.

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