Swedish security police say suspect in truck attack previously known

Record ID: 566489

  • Title: Swedish security police say suspect in truck attack previously known
  • Date: 8th April 2017
  • Summary: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (APRIL 8, 2017) (REUTERS) SWEDISH SECURITY OFFICIALS ARRIVE AT NEWS CONFERENCE SWEDISH NATIONAL TACTICAL COUNCIL POLICE JONAS HYSING TALKING HEAD OF SWEDEN'S NATIONAL POLICE DAN ELIASSON TALKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF SWEDEN'S NATIONAL POLICE, DAN ELIASSON, SAYING: "He (the suspect of the Truck attack) was known, there was intelligence about him in the security police, as the head of the security service said, they were more of a marginal character - is that rightly stated?" NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF SWEDEN'S NATIONAL POLICE, DAN ELIASSON, SAYING: "We are focusing on, of course, how he has entered the country, where he has been, the type of contacts that he has, what can we see from his friends and so on. But that is part of the investigation." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF SWEDEN'S NATIONAL POLICE, DAN ELIASSON, SAYING: "We do not know whether there are further persons involved in this act, or not. But we are not excluding that. We are still working on a very comprehensive approach, to see whether there is any possibility that further individuals are involved." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF SWEDISH SECURITY SERVICE, ANDERS THORNBERG, SAYING: "We have raised threat number three on a five scale so far. This could include that a terrorist attack like this could happen. If we have immediate information that another terrorist attack could occur, then we could raise the threat level to a high level. We are still at a raised level and we will follow it very carefully all the time, and if necessary we will take proper action in this matter." (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF SWEDEN'S NATIONAL POLICE, DAN ELIASSON, SAYING: "We have found something in the truck, in the driver's seat - a technical device which should not be there. I cannot at this stage say that this is a bomb or some sort of flammable material. We are doing a technical investigation of that at the moment and we will have to revert to that further on in the investigation." NEWS CONFERENCE ENDING
  • Embargoed: 22nd April 2017 14:48
  • Keywords: Stockholm truck attack police arrest security service
  • Location: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
  • City: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
  • Country: Sweden
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016BJFBRB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: AUDIO AS INCOMING
    The man in custody suspected of carrying out the Stockholm truck attack has previously figured in intelligence material, Swedish security police said on Saturday (April 8).
    National Police Chief Dan Eliasson told reporters that the suspect, a 39 year-old man from Uzbekistan, had previously featured in a security intelligence briefing and was known to be a "marginal character".
    Eliasson also said they had found a "technical" device in the truck but stated officials did not yet know if it was a homemade bomb, as reported by public broadcaster SVT.
    The attack was the latest to hit the Nordic region after shootings in the Danish capital Copenhagen killed three people in 2015 and the bombing and shooting in 2011 by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik that killed 77 people in Norway.
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