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Man found shot on Ludvika street

A 28 year-old man was found shot in the stomach on the streets of Ludvika, in central Sweden, on Saturday afternoon. Another 28 year-old is in custody, suspected of attempted murder.

Published: 18 December 2011 13:08 CET
Man found shot on Ludvika street

“We’ve arrested him after interrogations,” said officer Sven-Åke Petters, press spokesman for the Dalarna police force, to news agency TT.

Police were alerted to the shooting around 1pm on Saturday, when reports of a man found lying in the street with bullet wounds came in.

The man was conscious when found, and taken to the hospital. According to the police, the man has had surgery.

Falu Hospital reported that the victim was shot in the stomach. He is reportedly severely injured.

The motive behind the shooting is not known. According to Petters, several investigative efforts have been put to work.

The suspect was arrested around 4pm. He’s been previously charged with drug related offences, but not with any violent crimes.

The weekend has been rowdy in Ludvika. On Friday night a 44 year-old man was attacked on the streets in the small town. He later died from the injuries he had sustained.

According to the police, however, the murder and the later shooting aren’t connected.

“With the information we have and are working with, there’s no reason to believe that they are related in any way,” said Petters.

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Sweden charges Islamic State woman in landmark trial

Swedish prosecutors said they have brought genocide charges against a woman in the country's first court case over crimes committed by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.

Published: 20 September 2024 07:15 CEST
Sweden charges Islamic State woman in landmark trial

A prosecutor told AFP the 52-year-old woman was accused of keeping Yazidi women and children as slaves at her home in Syria between 2014 and 2016.

She was charged with “genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes” on the grounds that her actions formed part of a broader campaign by the group (IS or Isis) against the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority.

The woman, who is a Swedish citizen, is in jail having already been sentenced by a Swedish court to six years in prison in 2022 for allowing her 12-year-old son to be recruited as a child soldier for Isis.

Senior prosecutor Reena Devgun told AFP that while investigating that case, authorities had received witness reports “that told us that she had kept slaves in Raqqa,” the former stronghold of the Islamic State group in northern Syria, prompting further investigations.

“If you take in Yazidis into your household when you are an Isis member or the wife of an Isis member and treat them this way, I argue that you are participating” in the broader campaign against them, Devgun said.

Devgun said the woman had kept nine people, three women and six children, in her home “as slaves”.

The women and children – who were kept in the house for between 20 days and seven months – were among other things made to perform household tasks.

Devgun said they had also been photographed, which the prosecutor argued “was done with the intention that they would be sold off”.

Evidence had mainly been gathered through witness accounts, from the victims and others that had visited the home at the time.

The crimes, which the woman denies, can carry a life sentence in Sweden.

Stockholm’s District Court said in a statement that the trial was scheduled to start on October 7th and was expected to last two months.

Around 300 Swedes or Swedish residents, a quarter of them women, joined IS in Syria and Iraq, mostly in 2013 and 2014, according to Sweden’s intelligence service Säpo.

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