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Man dies in Malmö hotel fall

A man died on Thursday evening after falling out of a fourth floor window at a central Malmö hotel.

Published: 10 April 2009 09:59 CEST

Man dies in Malmö hotel fall

“The man is known to us. We have opened a criminal investigation but we do not know if it is a question of suicide, an accident or murder,” Calle Persson at Skåne police said to news agency TT.

The man, who is in his thirties, was found dead on the ground near Stortorget in central Malmö at around 5pm on Thursday.

Police technicians have investigated the property in question as well as the immediate vicinity. They have also interviewed several witnesses.

The dead man was transferred to Malmö University Hospital (Mas) for identification and for a preliminary examination to determine cause of death.

“If he has additional injuries aside from those sustained in the fall, this is of course of interest to us,” Calle Persson said.

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Nordic justice ministers meet tech giants on gangs using apps to hire 'child soldiers'

Denmark’s justice minister, Peter Hummelgaard, said in a press release that he hoped to use the meeting on Friday afternoon to discuss how to stop social media and messaging apps being used by gang criminals, who Danish police revealed earlier this year were using them to recruit so-called “child soldiers” to carry out gang killings.

“We have seen many examples of how the gangs are using social media and encrypted messaging services to plan serious crimes and recruit very young people to do their dirty work,” Hummelgaard said. “My Nordic colleagues and I agree that a common front is needed to get a grip on this problem.”

As well as recruitment, lists have been found spreading on social media detailing the payments on offer for various criminal services.

Hummelgaard said he would “insist that the tech giants live up to their responsibilities so that their platforms do not act as hotbeds for serious crimes” at the meeting, which will take place at a summit of Nordic justice ministers in Uppsala, Sweden.

In August, Hummelgaard held a meeting in Copenhagen with Sweden’s justice minister, Gunnar Strömmer, at which the two agreed to work harder to tackle cross-border organised crime, which has seen a series of Swedish youth arrested in Denmark after being recruited to carry out hits in the country.

According to a press release from the Swedish justice ministry, the morning will be spent discussing how to combat the criminal economy and particularly organised crime in ports, with a press release from Finland’s justice ministry adding that the discussion would also touch on the “undue influence on judicial authorities” from organised crime groups.

The day will end with a round table discussion with Ronald S Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, on how anti-Semitism and hate crimes against Jews can be prevented and fought in the Nordic region.

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