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Former students charged for killing teacher

Swedish prosecutors have charged two former students along with a third accomplice for beating a high school to teacher to death in early April.

Published: 15 June 2011 08:07 CEST

The teacher, 54-year-old Tommy Johansson, was savagely beaten and killed in Hofors in eastern Sweden.

According to the indictment, Johansson was subject to severe violence before he died. The trio also stole a computer and the teacher’s cash card before leaving the scene.

Two men and a woman who had previously said Johansson was one of her favourite teachers, are suspected of breaking into his apartment, at which point they began beating and kicking him.

The former students met the teacher outside a pizzeria earlier in the evening before following him to his apartment.

While the precise motive for the crime remains unclear, one theory suggests that the 22-year-old hatched the plan out of jealousy, believing that Johansson was hitting on his former student, the Aftonbladet newspaper reports.

At their remand hearing, the former students admitted to assaulting Johansson, but denied killing him.

One of the men, 22, has been charged with murder, while the 21-year-old woman has been charged with murder and an alternative charge of being an accomplice to murder.

The second man, also 22, has been charged with being an accomplice to murder as well as with protecting a criminal.

“My contention is that a man and a woman together murdered Tommy Johansson and another man was on the scene and is guilty of being an accomplice to murder,” prosecutor Krister Frykman told the Expressen newspaper.

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POLITICS

Over a thousand people join protest against Stockholm attack

Over a thousand people joined a demonstration in Gubbängen, southern Stockholm, on Saturday, protesting Wednesday's attack by far-right extremists on a lecture organised by the Left and Green parties.

Published: 27 April 2024 15:36 CEST
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.  

EXPLAINED: What we know about the attack on a Swedish anti-fascist meeting

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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