Swedish makeup brand faces police probe over toxic chemicals

Caia Cosmetics, the cosmetics company owned by Swedish influencer and entrepreneur Bianca Ingrosso, has been reported to the police by the Swedish Chemicals Agency for using illegal toxic chemicals, reports Swedish business newspaper Dagens industri.

The company’s Germany-made product Caia Duo Eye Pencil contained so-called PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). These are man-made substances that are difficult to break down, and some of them are harmful to the environment and to human health.

The product was removed from the company’s website in April.

Ingrosso founded Caia Cosmetics in 2018, and it has grown to become a hugely popular brand especially among teenage girls. She started out as a child actor and performer, but mainly rose to fame thanks to Wahlgrens värld, a Swedish reality TV series following the daily lives of her famous artist family, with her mother Pernilla Wahlgren as the matriarch. Today, she among other things hosts her own talk show.

Swedish vocabulary: makeup – smink

Man injured in Malmö shooting

Police are investigating after a man aged around 20 was injured in a shooting in Malmö shortly before midnight on Tuesday.

Several people were seen running from the scene, in the city’s Kirseberg district, police said in a statement. 

The man went to hospital of his own accord and had minor gunshot wounds, said police.

No arrests had been reported by 6am.

Swedish vocabulary: to investigate – att undersöka

Iranian journalist in hiding in Sweden after Iran puts his name on ‘death list’

Iranian TV journalist Mehran Abasian, who has lived in Sweden for the past ten years, has with the help of the Swedish security services (Säpo) gone into hiding after finding out his name is on a secret “death list” said to have been created by the Iranian government.

An order to kill Abasian has allegedly been given to gang criminals in Sweden.

“Säpo is taking the threat very seriously,” he told the Aftonbladet tabloid.

Säpo declined to comment when approached by Aftonbladet, but it has previously confirmed that the Iranian regime is recruiting criminal gangs in Sweden to carry out attacks on Swedish soils, and that it has already thwarted several Iranian planned attacks in Sweden.

It has been widely reported in Swedish media that perpetrators linked to Swedish gang leader Rawa Majid’s Foxtrot network were behind a hand grenade attack on the Israeli embassy in Stockholm in January, allegedly acting on the orders of the Iranian regime.

Swedish vocabulary: to hide (oneself) – att gömma (sig)

The latest news on the Kungsholmen shooting

Not much more information has been released after a shooting near the busy Rådhuset metro station on Stockholm’s Kungsholmen island on Tuesday.

A suspect remains in custody, according to the latest available reports. 

According to Swedish media, around three to five shots were fired through the window of a business venue, but no one received major injuries. A witness described the suspect as a young boy, although that remains unconfirmed by police.

Swedish media also report that police are linking the shooting to a suspected attempted murder on Kungsholmen on Monday.

Swedish vocabulary: a suspect – en misstänkt