7 October 2023 - The Nordic Reporter

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War in Ukraine: Denmark restarts its ammo production

7 October 202319 October 2023

The Danish armed forces will buy the former ammunition production plant Krudten in Elling to restart production for the Danish armed forces. The idea launched three weeks ago by the Danish Minister of Defence will become reality. It is an […]

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Man shot and wounded himself in Helsingborg

7 October 202320 November 2023

SWEDEN, 7 OCT 2023: A man was shot and wounded in the city of Helsingborg, Sweden, late on Friday night 6 October. He came to hospital himself saying he was attacked by masked man in the Olympia area, police says. […]

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Norway arrests suspect for shooting in Oslo

7 October 202319 October 2023

NORWAY, 7 OCT 2023: Norwegian police have arrested a man in his twenties suspected of shooting and wounding another man in his twenties in the Holmlia area of Oslo on Friday night. The police has given very little details. NEWS […]

A Polish farmer in Łapszanka, near the Slovakian border (Photo © Marcel Burger)

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Polish government fuel stunt angers farmers ahead of elections

7 October 202330 October 2023

Many Polish motorists were happy when the state-owned fuel company Orlen dropped the prices at the pump. The move was clearly an attempt by the ruling conservative PiS party to win votes. But in the villages – where PiS normally […]

SWEDEN, 20 NOV 2023: Swedish police is not allowed to block the burning of the Quran citing possible disturbance of public order. This is the final decision by the highest public rule court of Sweden (Högsta Förvaltningsdomstolen) on a case in Norrköping last year. The police in Sweden decides over demonstrations, and freedom of expression is kept in high regard. This apparently includes the burning of holy books. In many places in Sweden riots broke out during Easter 2022 and later, after individuals burned the Quran to make a public statement.

SWEDEN, 18 NOV 2023: The wave of violence that is marking an ongoing gangs conflict within the Foxtrot organised crime network in Sweden has spread to Bosnia-Herzegowina. Two young man with Swedish passports, a 19-year-old and a 25-year-old were arrested in Sarajevo on 17 November, suspected of killing a 31-year-old Swedish gang leader in the Bosnian capital on 31 October. Another gang member, a 22-year-old from Norrköping was wounded in the same assassination attempt. The killed gang member was already a target of an attack earlier, on 6 September in Istanbul. According to Swedish media the arrested 19-year-old is from Malmö, is suspect in the attempted killing of the father in law of Rawa M, the leader of the Foxtrot network, in Uppsala on 13 September. He is apparently already known by authorities since he was 13 years old.

NORWAY, 15 NOV 2023: The Norwegian government announced on Wednesday it will invest NOK 12.5 billion (about EUR 1.07 billion) in upgrading and expanding the air defence network of the Scandinavian country. Norway has a credible indigenous development of surface-to-air missile systems. The NASAMS made by Norwegian defence corp. Kongsberg has been exported to a dozen countries, including the United States that uses the system to protect high-value locations in Washington DC. The US government has even been bought the NASAMS for delivery to the Ukrainian armed forces.