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Man attacked girlfriend with samurai sword

A man has been arrested in the proximity of his home in Hörnefors in northern Sweden on Wednesday morning on suspicion of having seriously injured his girlfriend with a samurai sword.

Published: 13 April 2011 10:35 CEST
Man attacked girlfriend with samurai sword

The incident occurred at 3am on Wednesday morning, according to a Västerbotten police report.

“A 30 year-old man was arrested near his residence on suspicion of attempted murder. Previously during the night the man inflicted severe injuries on his girlfriend with a sword,” the police report read.

Police confirmed that the woman was rushed to Umeå hospital in an ambulance and according to the local Västerbottens Kuriren (VK) daily she underwent an emergency operation.

The woman was lying on her bed when her partner attacked and stabbed her in the back with a newly manufactured samurai sword, the newspaper reported.

The police were called by a neighbour and the man was arrested.

“The negotiator managed to get the man to come out of the apartment and the arrest was undramatic,” said Mikael Liljenberg at Umeå police to VK.

Police have confirmed that they were able to conclude during the journey to the police station that the suspect was under the influence of alcohol.

The 30-year-old man is being held on suspicion of attempted murder.

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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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