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 Rakhmat Akilov has been found guilty of terrorist crimes for carrying out the April 2017 Stockholm terror attack, where five people were killed, ten more injured and hundreds of others affected. Here are some of the key points from the verdict in one of Sweden's most important trials ever. https://www.thelocal.se/20180607/five-key-points-from-the-stockholm-terror-verdict Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:47:39 +0200 five-key-points-from-the-stockholm-terror-verdict Rakhmat Akilov, the Uzbek national who carried out the April 2017 Stockholm terror attack, has been sentenced to life in prison for "terrorist crimes". https://www.thelocal.se/20180607/rakhmat-akilov-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-stockholm-terror-attack Thu, 07 Jun 2018 14:59:51 +0200 rakhmat-akilov-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-stockholm-terror-attack The first words the man behind last year's Stockholm truck attack said to his lawyer were "When are they going to start beating me?" a Stockholm court has heard on the last day of his two-month terror trial. https://www.thelocal.se/20180502/when-are-they-going-to-start-beating-me-stockholm-terror-accused-rakhmat-akilov Wed, 02 May 2018 19:44:46 +0200 when-are-they-going-to-start-beating-me-stockholm-terror-accused-rakhmat-akilov Witnesses who were inside the Åhléns department store when a truck crashed into the building after mowing down pedestrians on Drottninggatan will describe what they saw as the Stockholm terror trial enters its final phase. https://www.thelocal.se/20180418/stockholm-terror-trial-nears-final-phase Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:18:46 +0200 stockholm-terror-trial-nears-final-phase Expected to run for months before a verdict is delivered in June, the trial of Stockholm terror suspect Rakhmat Akilov is one of the biggest and most important in Sweden's history. "Unique" is how prosecutor Hans Ihrman described it, after a day where Akilov was grilled by lawyers representing the many plaintiffs with The Local in attendance. https://www.thelocal.se/20180221/sweden-seeks-closure-as-unique-terror-trial-progresses Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:58:20 +0100 sweden-seeks-closure-as-unique-terror-trial-progresses A self-proclaimed Isis soldier who killed five people in a Stockholm truck attack last year appeared confused when he was told the group never claimed responsibility for the assault. https://www.thelocal.se/20180221/stockholm-attacker-appears-baffled-over-lack-of-isis-claim Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:14:47 +0100 stockholm-attacker-appears-baffled-over-lack-of-isis-claim Rakhmat Akilov said he wanted to murder Swedish citizens when he stole a truck and drove it down a busy shopping street in Stockholm last April, killing five and injuring several others. https://www.thelocal.se/20180220/stockholm-terror-suspect-wanted-to-kill-swedish-citizens Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:18:29 +0100 stockholm-terror-suspect-wanted-to-kill-swedish-citizens Rakhmat Akilov, a rejected Uzbek asylum seeker who had admitted to a Stockholm truck attack that killed five people last year, will address the court at his trial on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20180220/radicalised-uzbek-akilov-to-address-court-over-stockholm-terror-attack Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:03:16 +0100 radicalised-uzbek-akilov-to-address-court-over-stockholm-terror-attack Sweden is hoping for answers when Stockholm terror suspect Rakhmat Akilov testifies in court on Tuesday, but interpreting his statements will be a complicated task according to a terror expert. https://www.thelocal.se/20180219/sweden-hopes-for-answers-from-stockholm-terror-suspect-akilov Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:51:54 +0100 sweden-hopes-for-answers-from-stockholm-terror-suspect-akilov Rakhmat Akilov pleaded guilty to terrorism charges for the Stockholm truck attack that killed five people. https://www.thelocal.se/20180213/the-lives-of-a-large-number-of-people-were-put-in-danger-stockholm-terrorism-akilov Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:52:04 +0100 the-lives-of-a-large-number-of-people-were-put-in-danger-stockholm-terrorism-akilov Uzbek national Rakhmat Akilov, who has confessed to driving the truck in the April 2017 attack that killed five and injured many others in central Stockholm, will go on trial today accused of terrorism. https://www.thelocal.se/20180213/trial-begins-against-stockholm-terror-suspect-rakhmat-akilov Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:37:46 +0100 trial-begins-against-stockholm-terror-suspect-rakhmat-akilov An investigation by Swedish news agency TT suggests that Stockholm terror suspect Rakhmat Akilov was in direct contact with high-level members of Isis before, during and after the April 2017 attack. https://www.thelocal.se/20180202/stockholm-terror-suspect-had-contact-with-high-ranking-isis-members-swedish-report Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:40:29 +0100 stockholm-terror-suspect-had-contact-with-high-ranking-isis-members-swedish-report Rakhmat Akilov recorded a video on his mobile phone in which he said "it is time to kill", hours before carrying out last year's truck attack in central Stockholm, prosecutors revealed on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20180130/stockholm-attacker-charged-with-terror-crimes Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:30:19 +0100 stockholm-attacker-charged-with-terror-crimes Uzbekistan said on Friday the suspect in last week's deadly Stockholm truck attack had ties to Islamic State jihadists and the West had been warned about him. https://www.thelocal.se/20170414/uzbekistan-says-stockholm-suspect-had-ties-to-isis-report Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:31:54 +0200 uzbekistan-says-stockholm-suspect-had-ties-to-isis-report Stockholm terror suspect Rakhmat Akilov had used at least two different identities in Sweden, and public broadcaster SVT reports that several people may have used the name Rakhmat Akilov. https://www.thelocal.se/20170412/who-is-the-real-rakhmat-akilov-stockholm-truck-attack Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:23:20 +0200 who-is-the-real-rakhmat-akilov-stockholm-truck-attack