Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
A Finnish district court has stopped prosecution of the crew of the Eagle S, a ship that reportedly destroyed parts of the Finnish-Estonian Estlink 2 and four internet cables in December 2025, for sabotage. Since the suspected sabotage did take […]
The Polish ambassador was already not at his embassy in Budapest, Hungary, since December, but now the Polish government has officially reduced the status of the diplomatic relations with the Hungarian regime. The Polish ambassador as a function has been […]
Estonia and Sweden are close to a deal to house up to 600 Swedish inmates in a prison in Tartu. The Swedish prison capacity is insufficient, and the one in Estonia is open to include the Swedish convicts. The Tartu […]
The Swedish police has identified 544 people who are considered to be that highly instable that they could take the life of their partner, and about 316 others who could be potential serial rapists. National police chief for preventing these […]
Since 2023, 22 innocent people were killed and another 38 wounded in shootings and attacks with explosives by criminal gangs in Sweden, Swedish radio (SR/EKOT) reports today. Many of these killed or wounded were family members of criminals, but were […]
Smashed windows of cultural centres, damages to buildings of businesses and threat messages to Belarusians in Lithuania, often with spelling errors. A series of incidents in Lithuania in the past years are the works of Belarusian and Russian secret services, […]
The Swedish government is working a law adjustment that will make semi-automatic weapons including the popular AR-15 rifle illegal, according to various Swedish sources. The law change, which likely will be passes smoothly by parliament, is a direct reaction to […]
UPDATE 5 FEB 2025, 19:05 CET | Ten people have been killed and at least six wounded by a lone 35-year-old gunman at a school for adults in Örebro, Central Sweden, around 12:30 CET on Tuesday 4 February 2025. The […]
The man who has repeatedly put the Quran on fire in Sweden, Iraqi born Salwan Momika, has been shot and killed on Wednesday 29 January 2025 shortly after 23:00 on the balcony of his apartment in Södertälje, a city south […]
The year 2025 starts violently in Sweden. During a press conference in Stockholm on 29 January, the Swedish police say they have registered 30 attacks with explosive devices in January alone. Meaning: more than one detonation per day. Most of […]
The number of people killed by gun fire in Sweden has remarkably declined in 2024, according to the statistics of the Council of Crime Prevention (Brottfsförbyggande rådet, Brå) of Sweden, and Swedish broadcasting company SVT. In 2022 62 people were […]
On 5 November 2024, a court in Malmö, Sweden, has sentenced the Danish politician Rasmus Paludan to four months in jail, for incitement against an ethnic group in Sweden in 2022. The Danish provocateur burned a Quran and made statements […]