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Woman and two teens injured in stabbing in southern Sweden

Three people were injured after being stabbed in Trelleborg, southern Sweden on Monday night. Police have detained one person in connection with the incident.

Published: 9 July 2019 08:10 CEST
Woman and two teens injured in stabbing in southern Sweden
Police in Trelleborg, Skåne. File photo (not the crime scene referred to in this article): Johan Nilsson / TT

The three people were all reported to have been seriously injured by the same person, and were taken to hospital after police were informed of the incident shortly after midnight. 

The victims were a woman in her 40s and two teenage boys, a police press officer told Aftonbladet. One of the victims was in a very serious condition.

Windows at a building close to the crime scene had been smashed, and an abandoned car was outside the building.

A man in his 50s was detained later on Monday night in a neighbouring village, on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated assault.

The investigation continued overnight as police carried out a technical examination and questioned witnesses, and by the morning the police cordons had been removed.

However, police could not comment further on a possible motive behind the attack.

“We are currently working to build an understanding of what happened,” said police officer Mikael Lindh. 

 

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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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