https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed One of the four men facing terror charges for allegedly helping the gunman in last year's Copenhagen shootings said that Swedish artist Lars Vilks "deserved to die" in the violence. https://www.thelocal.se/20160415/swedish-artist-deserved-to-die Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:48:24 +0200 swedish-artist-deserved-to-die The man, who was travelling with an Irish passport, is wanted by authorities in the US for being part of an al-Qaeda cell suspected of planning an attack on a Swedish cartoonist. https://www.thelocal.se/20151211/jihadist-in-swedish-cartoonist-plot-arrested Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:34:48 +0100 jihadist-in-swedish-cartoonist-plot-arrested UPDATED: A bomb squad is investigating a suspicious package that was posted to a local newspaper that previously published controversial Muhammad cartoons by the Swedish artist Lars Vilks. https://www.thelocal.se/20150218/suspect-letter Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:43:00 +0100 suspect-letter One of the Swedish police officers who was in Copenhagen to protect the Swedish artist Lars Vilks over the weekend 'interrupted' the attack on a cultural centre by shooting at the gunman, according to claims in the Swedish media. https://www.thelocal.se/20150218/swedish-officer-stopped-bigger-denmark-massacre Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:04:00 +0100 swedish-officer-stopped-bigger-denmark-massacre Sweden's public broadcaster Sveriges Radio has apologised after a presenter questioned the Israeli ambassador about the responsibility of Jews for anti-Semitism, in the wake of the shooting of a Jewish man in Copenhagen this weekend. https://www.thelocal.se/20150218/swedish-radio-rapped-for-ambassador-jews-question Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:07:00 +0100 swedish-radio-rapped-for-ambassador-jews-question The presumed gunman in the attack on a cultural event attended by Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks and a synagogue in Copenhagen was vocally anti-Semitic and had expressed a desire to travel to Syria to wage jihad, it has emerged. https://www.thelocal.se/20150217/copenhagen-gunman Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:19:00 +0100 copenhagen-gunman People across Denmark gathered on Monday to pay tribute to the victims of this weekend's attacks and show unity in the face of terror. The Local followed the commemorations as they happened. https://www.thelocal.se/20150216/shots-fired-at-lars-vilks-meeting-in-copenhagen Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:31:00 +0100 shots-fired-at-lars-vilks-meeting-in-copenhagen A Swedish cartoonist believed to have been targeted in one of the Copenhagen shootings at the weekend has been sent into hiding, police said on Monday evening. https://www.thelocal.se/20150216/swedish-cartoonist-in-hiding-after-shootings Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:43:00 +0100 swedish-cartoonist-in-hiding-after-shootings