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 Hopes that a new policing strategy had brought Malmö's problems with gang crime under control took a knock this month when three explosions rocked the city in just 24 hours. But how does this year's violence compare to earlier years? Here are five things you should know. https://www.thelocal.se/20190617/five-things-you-should-know-about-malms-wave-of-explosions Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:46:00 +0200 five-things-you-should-know-about-malms-wave-of-explosions Swedish police faced a hand grenade attack, youths firing rockets and throwing powerful bangers at them, and an axe attacker in an unusually busy New Year’s Eve. https://www.thelocal.se/20170101/swedish-police-brave-rockets-a-grenade-and-an-axeman-on-new-years Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:59:39 +0100 swedish-police-brave-rockets-a-grenade-and-an-axeman-on-new-years An entire Swedish village had to be evacuated on Wednesday when the Swedish Armed Forces blew up a 380-kilo shell that had lain in a garden for 86 years. https://www.thelocal.se/20161102/swedish-bomb-squad-blow-up-grenade-from-the-30s Wed, 02 Nov 2016 11:04:14 +0100 swedish-bomb-squad-blow-up-grenade-from-the-30s Swedish police are investigating an explosion at an apartment in the Biskopsgården suburb of Gothenburg just two weeks after an eight-year-old boy was killed when a hand grenade was thrown into a building in the same area. https://www.thelocal.se/20160906/police-investigate-new-blast-in-gothenburg-suburb Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:58:51 +0200 police-investigate-new-blast-in-gothenburg-suburb Is escalating gang crime behind the death of an eight-year-old boy in a Gothenburg suburb? The Local spoke to criminology professor Jerzy Sarnecki and organized crime expert Amir Rostami for their thoughts. https://www.thelocal.se/20160823/what-happened-in-gothenburg-is-part-of-a-cycle-of-violence-sweden-biskopsgarden Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:54:53 +0200 what-happened-in-gothenburg-is-part-of-a-cycle-of-violence-sweden-biskopsgarden Residents have reacted with grief and anxiety to the murder of an eight-year-old boy who was killed when a hand grenade was thrown into a Gothenburg apartment on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20160823/sorrow-for-boy-killed-in-gothenburg-gang-attack Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:33:51 +0200 sorrow-for-boy-killed-in-gothenburg-gang-attack UPDATED: Police are investigating if an explosion which killed a child in Gothenburg suburb Biskopsgården on Monday morning is a revenge attack. https://www.thelocal.se/20160822/child-dies-in-swedish-apartment-explosion Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:52:20 +0200 child-dies-in-swedish-apartment-explosion Swedish police are investigating a suspected grenade attack on a home in Malmö on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20160518/malm-shaken-by-suspected-grenade-attack Wed, 18 May 2016 10:21:09 +0200 malm-shaken-by-suspected-grenade-attack In a keynote summer speech in Vasaparken in Stockholm, Swedish prime minister and Social Democratic leader Stefan Löfven took a hard line against the recent spate of crime and violence in Sweden - what he called “the summer of unrest”. https://www.thelocal.se/20150816/we-will-not-give-an-inch-to-violence-lfven Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:00:10 +0200 we-will-not-give-an-inch-to-violence-lfven Malmö in southern Sweden was last night hit by a fourth hand grenade attack in under a week – just 48 hours after another explosion rocked residents in a series of blasts in Sweden's third largest city this summer. https://www.thelocal.se/20150726/malm-shaken-by-another-hand-grenade-attack Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:24:28 +0200 malm-shaken-by-another-hand-grenade-attack Police have been criticized for using stun grenades when taking an infant child away from its mother, after she pulled a knife and refused to cooperate. https://www.thelocal.se/20131122/police-use-stun-grenades-to-take-womans-child Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:58:00 +0100 police-use-stun-grenades-to-take-womans-child Police were called to a recycling depot in Lidingö in Stockholm on Saturday after an elderly lady handed in a grenade. https://www.thelocal.se/20130324/46904 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:05:00 +0100 46904 A police station in western Stockholm was evacuated in panic on Thursday after an elderly man turned in two grenades for confiscation. https://www.thelocal.se/20130308/46626 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:40:00 +0100 46626 A man in southern Sweden, busy mowing the lawn of his private garden near his home between Trelleborg and Ystad, was shocked to see something unexpected sticking out of the ground. https://www.thelocal.se/20120807/42468 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:49:00 +0200 42468 Emergency services and bomb technicians were called to an address in central Malmö after a live grenade was found in a courtyard by a school and apartment block. https://www.thelocal.se/20120530/41138 Wed, 30 May 2012 16:34:00 +0200 41138 Six grenades that fell from a military transport truck in northern Sweden on Wednesday have yet to be recovered despite a wide ranging search to recover the missing munitions. https://www.thelocal.se/20120119/38600 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:33:00 +0100 38600 A decision by the Swedish Army Museum (Armémuseum) to raise money for charity by selling hand grenade-shaped Christmas tree ornaments has sparked a storm of criticism from disgusted visitors. https://www.thelocal.se/20111212/37876 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:22:00 +0100 37876 An explosion reportedly caused by a hand grenade ripped through an apartment in Malmö in southern Sweden early Wednesday morning in what police have classified as an attempted murder. https://www.thelocal.se/20110126/31644 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:57:00 +0100 31644 Police in Gothenburg continue their search for suspects believed to be involved with two separate explosions that rocked different parts of the city on Sunday night. https://www.thelocal.se/20090316/18232 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:46:00 +0100 18232 Activists broke into two facilities associated with weapons manufacturer Bofors in the early hours of Thursday morning and claim to have damaged up to 20 grenade launchers. https://www.thelocal.se/20081016/14988 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:40:00 +0200 14988