Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
The Swedish government has given the armed forces the order to investigate the pros and cons of the delivery of indigenous made multi-role fighters: the Saab JAS 39C/D Gripen to Ukraine. It comes after the government has already sent weapons […]
SWEDEN, 5 OCT 2023: Nine suspects are being put on trial for their involvement in a wave of bombings in residential areas in Stockholm, the public prosecutor in Attunda (Stockholm) has said. The suspects are from various criminal gangs in […]
STOCKHOLM, 29 SEP 2023: An 18-year-old man was sentenced to 10.5 years imprisonment for the shooting and killing of a 21-year-old man a busy road tunnel of Stockholm in October 2022. The shooting took place from a moving car, and […]
In one of the deadliest nights in modern Sweden, three people were killed in three incidents. A bomb attack presumably aimed at a local gangster killed a 25-yr-old female neighbour in the Uppsala suburb of Fullerö/Storvreta. In two shootings in […]
SWEDEN, 25 SEP 2023: 10 people are standing trial as of today for the shooting and killing of a 15-year-old boy in a sushi restaurant in Stockholm suburb Skogas in January. Among the suspects is the 16-year-old boy that is […]
SWEDEN, 25 SEP 2023: Four brothers in the age of 15 to 18 and a 16-year-old girl are standing trial for the hanging of a 26-year-old man in Enköping, Sweden. The girl earlier reported the victim, a taxi driver, for […]
SWEDEN, 24 SEP 2023: 12 people were brought to hospital on the night from Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 September after a fire broke out in an apartment complex in the Stockholm suburb of Bredäng. 40 people were evacuated to […]
A sudden landslide at motorway E6 near Stenungsund, north of Gothenburg in Sweden, took cars, a bus, trucks, a hamburger restaurant and more with it on 23 September. The earth moved tens of metres in another direction and fel up […]
SWEDEN, 22 SEP 2023: Two people were shot and killed and another two wounded in a pub in Sandviken, Central Sweden, on Thursday evening. The police say they think only one person was the target of a rival gang. Initially […]
UPDATED 24 SEPTEMBER 2023 | The wave of gang violence in Sweden has become that severe, that the Swedish Prime Minister has called several to a crisis meeting. The news comes after 10 days of shootings and stabbings in Stockholm […]
SWEDEN, 11 SEP 2023: Ten people are accused of killing a 15-year-old boy in a sushi restaurant in Skogås, as Stockholm suburb, in January. NEWS IN BRIEF The ten are between 16 and 27 years old, and include the 16-yr-old […]
DENMARK, 11 SEP 2023: Clashes in Copenhagen between rival Eritrean groups on 10 September, with 67 arrest among the rioters. NEWS IN BRIEF After 30 years of independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia, those pro and contra the Eritrean dictator seem […]
SWEDEN, 8 SEP 2023: A young male hunter was severely wounded near Venjan, west of Lake Siljan, in Sweden, when a bear attacked him on Friday. The bear was later found dead, killed by bullets fired by the hunting party […]
SWEDEN, 8 SEP 2023: For the murder of a 14-year-old boy in Upplands-Bro, North of Stockholm in August, Swedish police have arrested three teenagers of 15, 18 and 19, plus a woman of 21 years old. The publish prosecutor has […]
SWEDEN, 8 SEP 2023: Padel sports are on sharp decline in Sweden. The number of padel sports locations exploded years ago, but now it is the other way around. Since the beginning 2022 a total of 113 “padel houses” have […]
UPDATED 18 SEPTEMBER 2023 | The Swedish land usage authority (Jordbruksverket) has declared a massive 1000 square kilometres (620+ sq mi) as a no-go zone for jogging, hunting, picking berries and all other human activities in the forrest that are […]
SWEDEN, 6 SEP 2023: The explosion in an apartment complex in Norrköping, Sweden, last Sunday that injured a few inhabitants and led to evacuation of 150 people from 84 apartments, was not caused by an explosive device. The police still […]
The now 33-year-old Swedish diplomat Johan Floderus has been illegally held by Iran for more than 500 days. The case – already known within Sweden for some time – got world media attention on 5 September, when the New York […]
SWEDEN, 4 SEP 2023: Riots in the Rosengård area of Malmö in the night of Sunday to Monday. About 100 rioters threw stones to police vehicles and set cars on fire. A police spokesperson says to local media that the […]
SWEDEN, 31 AUG 2023: Ten workers got stuck in a 7.5 kilometre long tunnel, 70 metres underneath Stockholm on Thursday. Smoke had filled the tunnel, used for electricity supply infrastructure, from a transport belt that malfunctioned. They managed to get […]
Actors supported by Russia are actively involved in black painting Sweden as an anti-Muslim country. Swedish Minister for Civil Defence, Carl Oskar Bohlin, said this during a press conference in Stockholm on 26 July 2023. “We see how Russian-backed actors […]