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National police join hunt for missing woman

Officers from the National Murder Commission (Mordkommissionen) have joined the search for the 32-year-old woman who went missing from her home in Falun in the beginning of August.

Published: 19 August 2009 08:06 CEST

Police officers in the commission are specialized in solving murder cases.

Officers from the commission will join forces with local police on Wednesday and contribute to the investigation into the mysterious disappearance, according to a Dala police press release.

The woman left her home in Falun on August 1st to go out on the town and has been missing since then.

Police have classified the case as abduction, but have not found a trace of the woman.

Several witnesses believe that they saw the woman during the evening of her disappearance.

A woman resembling the missing woman could have been seen talking to one or more people in a dark car in central Falun.

Another witness statement places her at a downtown petrol station.

A further witness claims to have seen the 32-year-old walking with a 50-year-old man in Falun early the next day.

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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.

Published: 8 May 2024 17:00 CEST
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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