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 Police in Sweden said on Friday that there was no indication the gunman behind the Örebro campus attack in February held "xenophobic or radical views" and that he likely chose his victims at random. https://www.thelocal.se/20250516/police-orebro-press-conference Fri, 16 May 2025 12:16:19 +0200 police-orebro-press-conference Swedish police said Friday they had conducted nearly 1,000 interviews in the investigation into Sweden's worst mass shooting and are still trying to piece together a motive. https://www.thelocal.se/20250404/swedish-police-say-nearly-1000-interviews-done-since-mass-shooting Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:50:20 +0200 swedish-police-say-nearly-1000-interviews-done-since-mass-shooting Sweden's Migration Agency has collected together all the cases involving relatives of the ten people killed in the Örebro School Attack and is processing them all at the same special unit in Gothenburg. https://www.thelocal.se/20250331/swedens-migration-agency-sets-up-unit-for-families-of-orebro-victims Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:07:31 +0200 swedens-migration-agency-sets-up-unit-for-families-of-orebro-victims Sweden's government said on Thursday that it would be putting aside 300 million kronor for school security measures, following the country's worst mass shooting at an education centre last month. https://www.thelocal.se/20250320/sweden-to-invest-300-million-kronor-in-school-security-after-mass-shooting Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:45:41 +0100 sweden-to-invest-300-million-kronor-in-school-security-after-mass-shooting Robert Kindroth, chief of the Swedish Center for Preventing Violent Extremism (CVE), answers The Local's questions on whether the Örebro school attack could have been prevented and what can be done to lessen the risk of future attacks. https://www.thelocal.se/20250221/qa-could-the-orebro-school-attack-have-been-prevented Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:37:24 +0100 qa-could-the-orebro-school-attack-have-been-prevented Swedish police are appealing for witnesses to get in touch if they have information on how the gunman responsible for Sweden's worst mass shooting spent the final hours before the attack. https://www.thelocal.se/20250220/what-did-orebro-gunman-do-in-three-hours-still-unaccounted-for-before-the-attack Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:17 +0100 what-did-orebro-gunman-do-in-three-hours-still-unaccounted-for-before-the-attack The Local’s readers are calling on Swedish politicians to tone down inflammatory rhetoric and stop treating foreigners as a threat to the country after the mass shooting in Örebro. https://www.thelocal.se/20250220/foreigners-call-on-swedish-politicians-to-stop-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-after-orebro-attack Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:02 +0100 foreigners-call-on-swedish-politicians-to-stop-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-after-orebro-attack All of the people wounded in Sweden's worst mass shooting earlier in February were in "stable" condition, with the seriously hurt patients no longer requiring intensive care, health authorities said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20250217/all-wounded-in-orebro-shooting-stable-and-out-of-intensive-care Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:55:16 +0100 all-wounded-in-orebro-shooting-stable-and-out-of-intensive-care Sweden's government said it would boost security at schools after the country's worst mass shooting left 10 dead, giving teachers the right to search students' bags among other measures. https://www.thelocal.se/20250212/sweden-to-allow-schoolbag-searches-after-mass-shooting Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:28:38 +0100 sweden-to-allow-schoolbag-searches-after-mass-shooting The suspected gunman in Sweden's worst mass shooting fired more than 50 shots and had lived in isolation for several years, police said, revealing more details about the massacre. https://www.thelocal.se/20250212/police-reveal-more-details-about-orebro-shooting-gunman-fired-more-than-50-shots Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:10:04 +0100 police-reveal-more-details-about-orebro-shooting-gunman-fired-more-than-50-shots In his third speech to the nation, after the Örebro mass shooting, Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson carefully avoided political punchlines. But was his message of unity the right one, asks The Local's Nordic editor, Richard Orange. https://www.thelocal.se/20250211/politics-in-sweden-did-the-prime-minister-find-his-inner-statesman Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:56:48 +0100 politics-in-sweden-did-the-prime-minister-find-his-inner-statesman Sweden held a minute of silence at noon on Tuesday, to remember the victims of the Örebro mass shooting. https://www.thelocal.se/20250211/sweden-to-observe-minute-of-silence-in-honour-of-orebro-victims Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:18:43 +0100 sweden-to-observe-minute-of-silence-in-honour-of-orebro-victims Richard Jomshof, one of the most senior members of the far-right Sweden Democrats, has resigned as chair of the parliament's justice committee in protest of a proposal to ban certain semi-automatic firearms following the Örebro mass shooting. https://www.thelocal.se/20250211/top-sweden-democrat-steps-down-after-party-pushes-ahead-with-ar-15-ban Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:28:29 +0100 top-sweden-democrat-steps-down-after-party-pushes-ahead-with-ar-15-ban Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson sought to address the 'vulnerability' felt by many foreigners in Sweden after the Örebro attack, but he and opposition politicians should also reflect on how their own rhetoric sparked that feeling, writes The Local Sweden's editor Emma Löfgren. https://www.thelocal.se/20250210/opinion-its-down-to-swedens-lawmakers-to-help-immigrants-feel-less-vulnerable Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:54:05 +0100 opinion-its-down-to-swedens-lawmakers-to-help-immigrants-feel-less-vulnerable On February 4th, a gunman walked into an education centre in Örebro and killed 10 people – most of whom had a foreign background – in the worst mass shooting in the history of Sweden. We want to hear your thoughts about where to go from here. https://www.thelocal.se/20250210/tell-us-how-do-you-feel-about-life-in-sweden-after-the-orebro-shooting Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:10:05 +0100 tell-us-how-do-you-feel-about-life-in-sweden-after-the-orebro-shooting Who is the man believed to be responsible for the worst mass shooting in the history of Sweden? https://www.thelocal.se/20250205/what-do-we-know-about-the-orebro-gunman Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:05:36 +0100 what-do-we-know-about-the-orebro-gunman A prosecutor on Monday confirmed that Rickard Andersson, whose name had already been revealed by Swedish media, is the man suspected of killing 10 people in the worst mass shooting in the history of Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20250210/swedish-prosecutor-names-rickard-andersson-35-as-orebro-gunman Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:46:25 +0100 swedish-prosecutor-names-rickard-andersson-35-as-orebro-gunman On February 4th, shortly after lunch, a 35-year-old man named Rickard Andersson walked into an adult education college in Örebro, west of Stockholm, and killed ten people before turning the gun on himself. Here's what we know so far. https://www.thelocal.se/20250204/what-do-we-know-so-far-about-the-school-shooting-in-orebro Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:56:13 +0100 what-do-we-know-so-far-about-the-school-shooting-in-orebro Swedish police confirmed on Friday that seven women and three men had died in the mass shooting at a college in Örebro and the media are slowly filling in the details. Here's what we know so far. https://www.thelocal.se/20250206/what-do-we-know-about-the-victims-of-the-orebro-campus-attack Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:57:47 +0100 what-do-we-know-about-the-victims-of-the-orebro-campus-attack The Local's Nordic Editor Richard Orange rounds up the biggest stories of the week in our Inside Sweden newsletter. https://www.thelocal.se/20250208/inside-sweden-why-the-reluctance-to-reveal-the-victims-nationalities Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:35:49 +0100 inside-sweden-why-the-reluctance-to-reveal-the-victims-nationalities