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Swedish police: Wagner defector arrested in Copenhagen to be returned to Norway

The Wagner military group defector Andrej Medvedev will be returned to Norway from Sweden, Swedish police confirmed on Friday.

Published: 7 April 2023 13:36 CEST
Stockholm
Medvedev allegedly took the bus to Gothenburg because the price of cigarettes was lower in Sweden than in Norway. Photo by Sebastian Pichler on Unsplash

On Thursday evening, the Russian human rights activist Vladimir Osetshkin announced that Medvedev had been arrested in Sweden.

According to Oseshkin, Medvedev took the bus to Gothenburg because the price of cigarettes was lower in Sweden than in Norway.

“Andrej claims he did not know that he could not leave Norway before the case of political asylum was processed,” Osetshkin noted.

He is said to have missed his bus back to Norway and was then arrested.

“He will be taken back to Norway. He does not have the right to stay in Sweden, so he will be taken to Norway, where he has applied for asylum, police press officer Malin Sandström told Ekot, the news service of Swedish national radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio.

Medvedev arrived in Norway from Russia on January 13th. He received a lot of attention because he claimed to have evidence of war crimes by the Wagner forces in Ukraine.

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Arrest made after shooting outside school in Oslo

One suspect was arrested by police in Oslo on Wednesday afternoon after shots were fired outside a school in the east of Norway's capital as pupils and teachers were inside.

Published: 18 September 2024 16:56 CEST
Arrest made after shooting outside school in Oslo

The shooting occurred at the Linderud School in the Grorud area of east Oslo, which is both a primary (barneskole) and secondary school (ungdomsskole) with around 480 pupils and 100 staff.

Pupils and staff were on site at the time and were kept in the school whilst police carried out their investigations.

They were allowed to leave the building just after 5pm, public broadcaster NRK reported. 

Police said four people were involved in the shooting, three perpetrators and one victim.

One person had been arrested by police, and police had detained two people before later releasing them.

The police added they were still looking for any victim.

Police said it first received reports of shots fired at 3.43pm.

Witnesses told the newspaper VG that three people were seen running in one direction following the shooting, with a fourth possibly injured person running in a different direction. 

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