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Suspect held after daytime shooting in central Stockholm

Police arrested a suspect after a shooting near the busy Rådhuset metro station in Stockholm on Tuesday, Swedish media reported.

Published: 11 June 2024 11:39 CEST
Updated: 12 June 2024 15:14 CEST

Suspect held after daytime shooting in central Stockholm

File photo of Swedish police cordons. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

A source told Swedish news agency TT that three to five shots were fired.

“It is correct that someone appears to have fired a weapon in a stairwell or something similar,” a police spokesperson told the Expressen tabloid.

One person was in custody. There were no reports of serious injuries.

A person who witnessed the arrest told Expressen that the suspected shooter appeared to be a very young person.

According to Swedish media the shooter fired a gun through the window of a business venue.

The metro station at Rådhuset is partially cordoned off, but trains are still calling at the station.

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Sweden teen found guilty of taking gun to Israeli embassy

The conviction came less than a month after Sweden’s intelligence agency accused Iran of recruiting gang members to attack Israeli interests in the Scandinavian country.

The boy was arrested on May 16th when police stopped a taxi in the Tyresö suburb south of Stockholm, en route to the Israeli embassy in the capital. He was carrying the gun in his jacket.

The following night, a 14-year-old boy was arrested after a shooting near the Israeli embassy. That investigation is still under way.

The 15-year-old, who was sentenced to 11 months of juvenile supervision, told the Nacka district court he had been ordered to pick up an item in Tyresö for delivery, according to the verdict obtained by AFP.

He said he thought he would collect drugs and only discovered it would be a gun on the way to pick up the item.

He said he found out he was going to the Israeli embassy when he got in the taxi, which a woman had ordered for him.

The taxi driver confirmed that a woman, whose identity has not been established, gave the driver the embassy address.

The teen told the court he felt tricked but still went ahead with the assignment.

Prosecutors presented evidence from the boy’s smartphone showing that he had looked up the route to the embassy, and the court ruled the youth “knew that the trip was going to the embassy even if he was unable to give the taxi driver an address.”

The fact that the weapon was discovered en route to the embassy meant “the weapon typically could be feared to be used criminally,” the court said.

However, it emphasised that there was “no investigation in the case about what was actually planned to happen” that night. It was not known why police stopped the taxi.

Sweden’s intelligence agency, Säpo, on May 30th accused Iran of recruiting gang members in Sweden, some of them children, as proxies to commit “acts of violence against other states, groups or people in Sweden that it considers a threat.”

It cited in particular “Israeli and Jewish interests, targets and operations in Sweden”.

On January 31st, police found a live grenade in the grounds of the Israeli compound.

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