- Title: Swedes call for solidarity following Stockholm attack
- Date: 8th April 2017
- Summary: TENSTA, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (APRIL 8, 2017) (REUTERS) PERSON WALKING IN FRONT OF TENSTA SHOPPING MALL SHOPPING MALL SIGN READING (Swedish): "TENSTA CENTRE" (SOUNDBITE) (Swedish) 28-YEAR-OLD TENSTA RESIDENT, YONIS EGAG, SAYING: "I felt that it was really tragic, very unexpected in our beloved Sweden that a terrorist incident has happened, if that is what it is, I'm not really certain. It's tragic. It feels really tragic." PEOPLE ENTERING AND LEAVING SHOPPING ARCADE (SOUNDBITE) (Swedish) 28-YEAR-OLD TENSTA RESIDENT, YONIS EGAG, SAYING: "I personally don't feel a finger pointing at me, but people here might have those feelings, absolutely." TENSTA SQUARE (SOUNDBITE) (Swedish) 28-YEAR-OLD TENSTA RESIDENT, YONIS EGAG, SAYING: "I hope for a united Sweden. I hope that we can look ahead after this tragic incident." MAN FEEDING PIGEONS IN TENSTA SQUARE PIGEONS PEOPLE LEAVING SHOPPING MALL (SOUNDBITE) (Swedish) MEMBER OF FACEBOOK GROUP "WOMEN WHO HAVE COFFEE", EWA VON WOWERN (RIGHT), SAYING: "Our goal is to reduce the distance between people, especially on a day like today, the day after what happened yesterday, and to reduce the distance between us women in particular, who are given a hard time around the world." SHOPPING MALL ENTRANCE
- Embargoed: 22nd April 2017 14:01
- Keywords: truck attack police suburb Tensta immigrant Stockholm
- Location: TENSTA, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
- City: TENSTA, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
- Country: Sweden
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA0016BJFKG7
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- Story Text: On the day after a deadly truck attack in the Swedish capital, residents of the Stockholm suburb of Tensta, home to large number of immigrants, called for solidarity on Saturday (April 8).
Yonis Egag, a Tensta resident, said he hoped for a "united Sweden" while Ewa Von Wowern and Rosemary Andreasson, who have started a Facebook group called "Women who have coffee", said their goal was to reduce the rift among people, specially women, following such an incident.
The attack was the latest to hit the Nordic region after shootings in Danish capital Copenhagen in 2015 that killed three people and the 2011 bombing and shooting by far right extremist Anders Behring Breivik that killed 77 people in Norway.
Sweden has not seen a large-scale attack, although in December 2010 a failed suicide bombing killed the attacker only a few hundred yards from the site of Friday's incident. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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