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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Sweden's advertising watchdog has slammed as "distasteful and offensive" an ad campaign featuring a picture from the Sandy Hook school massacre, an image the company official claimed she thought "looked Swedish". https://www.thelocal.se/20131127/swedish-advertiser-rapped-for-sandy-hook-picture-pun Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:43:00 +0100 swedish-advertiser-rapped-for-sandy-hook-picture-pun Panic broke out at a Gothenburg school on Friday evening as one man was injured in a shooting which could be linked to a violent robbery that took place in the area on the same day. https://www.thelocal.se/20130518/47980 Sat, 18 May 2013 14:21:00 +0200 47980 There will likely be a school shooting in Sweden sometime in the foreseeable future, according to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap, MSB), which warned that local authorities are woefully unprepared to deal with such an event. https://www.thelocal.se/20130320/46828 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:58:00 +0100 46828 In the wake of the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, Swedes are discussing whether or not to introduce national security guidelines for Swedish schools. https://www.thelocal.se/20121216/45096 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:40:00 +0100 45096 The threat of a massacre at a school in southern Sweden was only a joke, according to the boy who confessed to posting it on the internet. https://www.thelocal.se/20090312/18182 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:35:00 +0100 18182 Swedish police have taken a 17-year-old boy in for questioning after he posted an internet threat to carry out a school shooting in Lund in the south of the country. https://www.thelocal.se/20090312/18152 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:34:00 +0100 18152 A Swedish high school was evacuated on Thursday after threats of a planned shooting were uncovered, said police. Just two days after 11 people died in a Finnish school massacre, the school was cleared and all pupils sent home. https://www.thelocal.se/20080925/14568 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:51:00 +0200 14568 A 16-year-old boy from Köping in central Sweden was detained on Wednesday for violating Sweden’s weapons laws and endangering others after police were tipped off that the teen had uploaded a suspicious video clip on YouTube. https://www.thelocal.se/20080925/14550 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:33:00 +0200 14550