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Two men stabbed, one dead in Skövde

Two separate stabbing incidents near Skövde in central Sweden left one man dead and the other with stomach injuries on Saturday evening.

Published: 17 August 2008 11:43 CEST

A 65-year-old man was stabbed to death in his home in Varola outside Skövde on Saturday evening. Police received the call from a witness at around 11.30pm.

“When we came to the residence we found a man with knife wounds,” said Thor Haraldsson to newspaper GT.

Police employed sniffer dogs to track the man’s assailant and later arrested a 54-year-old man. The man was arrested a short distance away in his home.

The suspect denies all charges, Haraldsson told the newspaper.

Meanwhile a few hours later a 20-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach in Hjo, on the other side of the small central Swedish town.

The police have classified the crime as attempted murder.

Tomas Ahlgren at Skövde police was unable to detail any further information as to the chain of events and no one has yet been arrested for the attack.

Police received a call at around 5am on Sunday morning.

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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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