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 Sweden faces a heightened risk of copy-cat attacks by far-right extremists, the country's Säpo security police have warned, following recent attacks in Texas, Norway, and New Zealand. https://www.thelocal.se/20190822/sweden-at-risk-of-far-right-copycat-attacks-spo Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:43:38 +0200 sweden-at-risk-of-far-right-copycat-attacks-spo Sweden's security service Säpo has requested the deportation of several individuals believed to be linked to international terror organizations. https://www.thelocal.se/20190702/swedens-security-police-request-deportation-of-several-individuals-over-suspected-terror-links Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:28:34 +0200 swedens-security-police-request-deportation-of-several-individuals-over-suspected-terror-links The chief executive of a largely Muslim free school in Gothenburg has been placed in custody by the Swedish Migration Agency on the orders of the country's Säpo security police. It follows the arrests of other Imams in recent months. https://www.thelocal.se/20190517/head-of-swedish-muslim-school-seized-by-security-police Fri, 17 May 2019 13:17:21 +0200 head-of-swedish-muslim-school-seized-by-security-police Sweden's security service Säpo warns in a new report of rising radical nationalism and foreign states trying to spy on Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20190315/a-xenophobic-and-radical-nationalist-current-is-on-the-rise-in-sweden-sapo Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:58:58 +0100 a-xenophobic-and-radical-nationalist-current-is-on-the-rise-in-sweden-sapo A person has been arrested on suspicion of illegal intelligence activity against Sweden, according to the country's security police. https://www.thelocal.se/20190227/suspected-spy-arrested-in-central-stockholm Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:58:26 +0100 suspected-spy-arrested-in-central-stockholm Officers from Sweden’s security police agency Säpo have arrested a suspected Iranian spy for planning an assassination on Danish soil. https://www.thelocal.se/20181030/swedish-intelligence-seizes-suspected-iranian-spy-after-murder-plot Tue, 30 Oct 2018 22:10:28 +0100 swedish-intelligence-seizes-suspected-iranian-spy-after-murder-plot Three people have been arrested on suspicion of preparing to commit an act of terror. https://www.thelocal.se/20180430/three-people-arrested-in-anti-terror-raids-in-stockholm-and-northern-sweden Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:36:24 +0200 three-people-arrested-in-anti-terror-raids-in-stockholm-and-northern-sweden Sweden's security police Säpo receive information about new potential terror threats every other day, a senior official tells The Local a year after the deadly Stockholm truck attack. https://www.thelocal.se/20180406/swedens-security-police-alerted-to-potential-terror-plans-every-other-day Fri, 06 Apr 2018 16:56:16 +0200 swedens-security-police-alerted-to-potential-terror-plans-every-other-day Sweden's security service Säpo warns in a new report that the threats to the country are greater than in a long time, citing rising extremism and tension in the rest of the world. https://www.thelocal.se/20180222/the-threats-to-sweden-are-greater-than-in-a-long-time Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:37:50 +0100 the-threats-to-sweden-are-greater-than-in-a-long-time Around ten people with links to Isis returned to Sweden last year after travelling to the terror organization's areas in Syria or Iraq, according to the head of the Swedish security police. https://www.thelocal.se/20180116/fewer-isis-sympathizers-returned-to-sweden-last-year-spo Tue, 16 Jan 2018 08:32:06 +0100 fewer-isis-sympathizers-returned-to-sweden-last-year-spo Sweden's security police Säpo have raised the alarm over a dad whom they believe is in the process of radicalizing his own son, who is around the age of ten. https://www.thelocal.se/20171020/sweden-security-police-warn-of-dad-radicalizing-his-young-son Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:30:23 +0200 sweden-security-police-warn-of-dad-radicalizing-his-young-son A 30-year-old man is entitled to thousands of kronor in compensation after he was held in custody by Swedish police for four months on suspicion of carrying out a terrorist act. https://www.thelocal.se/20171020/suspected-terror-fire-isis-malmo-compensation-arson Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:32:34 +0200 suspected-terror-fire-isis-malmo-compensation-arson Sweden's security police are investigating a terror threat made against Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20170921/swedish-security-police-investigate-terror-threat-in-stockholm Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:10:03 +0200 swedish-security-police-investigate-terror-threat-in-stockholm A 38-year old resident of southern Swedish town Nässjö has been remanded in custody suspected of planning public devastation (allmänfarlig ödeläggelse). https://www.thelocal.se/20170721/man-detained-in-swedish-security-police-public-devastation-investigation Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:55:11 +0200 man-detained-in-swedish-security-police-public-devastation-investigation Two thirds of some 3,000 violent extremists currently in Sweden are believed to have Islamist motives, the head of the country's security police Säpo said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20170703/2000-islamist-extremists-in-sweden-security-police Mon, 03 Jul 2017 15:19:17 +0200 2000-islamist-extremists-in-sweden-security-police The number of militant extremists living in Sweden has soared from a couple of hundreds a few years ago to thousands today, the security police Säpo believes. https://www.thelocal.se/20170616/thousands-of-violent-extremists-in-sweden-security-police Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:23:12 +0200 thousands-of-violent-extremists-in-sweden-security-police A fire started at a Malmö Islamic community centre did not constitute an act of terrorism, a Swedish district court has ruled, clearing a Syrian man of all charges, including arson. https://www.thelocal.se/20170421/malm-fire-at-islamic-centre-was-not-terrorism-court Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:49:51 +0200 malm-fire-at-islamic-centre-was-not-terrorism-court Sweden's security police (Säpo) want the suspect in a terror trial related to a fire at a community centre in Malmö last year to be deported, as they consider him a security risk. https://www.thelocal.se/20170420/swedish-security-police-want-man-accused-of-terrorism-for-islamic-centre-fire-to-be-deported Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:48:21 +0200 swedish-security-police-want-man-accused-of-terrorism-for-islamic-centre-fire-to-be-deported At the release of its new annual report on security threats to Sweden, security police Säpo called their task "bigger and more complicated than ever". The Local looks at four of the biggest security challenges they are currently facing. https://www.thelocal.se/20170316/the-four-big-security-challenges-facing-sweden-today Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:08:48 +0100 the-four-big-security-challenges-facing-sweden-today Sweden's security police Säpo has investigated several suspected spies working for key Swedish agencies in the past year, the service has revealed. https://www.thelocal.se/20170316/security-police-suspected-spies-found-working-for-swedish-agencies Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:04:48 +0100 security-police-suspected-spies-found-working-for-swedish-agencies