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Man shot dead north of Stockholm

A man was shot and killed outside the Magasinet restaurant in Upplands Väsby north of Stockholm in front of crowd of witnesses early Thursday morning.

Published: 22 January 2009 06:46 CET
Man shot dead north of Stockholm

Police received a call at 1.20am and arrived together with emergency workers to find one man dead from gunshot injuries and a group of people who had witnessed the killing gathered outside the restaurant.

Testimony from witnesses provided police with enough evidence to issue an arrest warrant for the suspected killer, police spokesperson Fredrik Ladenstedt told the TT news agency Thursday morning.

“The witnesses have been questioned overnight and it appears that it stems from some prior history between the men,” he said.

However Ladenstedt refused to go into greater detail regarding what sort of rivalry the two men have had or what relationship they had with one another.

Both the man suspected of murder and the victim are in their thirties and reside in the Upplands Väsby area.

On Thursday morning, police continued to search for the suspect in the Stockholm area.

STRIKES

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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