
In Stockholm, on suspicion of intentional collision on people, a 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan was detained, BBC reports . The detainee was not named for the name of the detainee, but noted that he had already fallen into the field of view of local law enforcement agencies.
The police also said that in the car used for the attack, they found a suspicious subject. He was lying in the driver's seat. The police representative refused to say what exactly was found, but emphasized that "he should not have been there."
The arrest was made the night before in the north of the Swedish capital. “The man was arrested as a crime contractor, that is, a driver,” said the representative of the police, Lars Bister. He noted that the arrested could have accomplices, but the authorities did not know anything about them yet.
The Swedish media, citing sources, report the second detainee who contacted the suspect. Also, according to unconfirmed data, explosives were found in the truck.
According to updated data, four people became victims of the attack. Another 15 is hospitalized, the condition of the nine wounded is assessed as serious.
On Friday afternoon, in the center of Stockholm, the truck drove into a crowd of people . The car on which the hit was made, belonged to the SPENDRUPS brewing company. He was stolen while the driver unloaded the goods. The hijacker drove six quarters, drove out into the Drotningtan street, demolished small fences in front of its pedestrian part and began to knock people on the sidewalk. After that, the truck crashed into the window of the Ahlens shopping center.
Sweden Prime Minister Stefan Levven called the incident a terrorist attack. "Sweden was attacked. Everything indicates that it was a terrorist attack," he said at a press conference.
After the terrorist attack, the parliament building was numb, the work of the Stockholm metro was stopped, trains at the central station were canceled. By evening, the work of transport resumed.
The police published photos of the wanted one in connection with the terrorist attack. The photo shows a man in a green jacket and a gray sweater with a hood. Pictures were taken from surveillance cameras at the scene. The police did not call the suspect shown in the photo, but they emphasized that citizens are strongly not recommended to make contact with him, they only need to transmit information about his whereabouts.
On March 22, a terrorist attack occurred in London. 52-year-old terrorist Khalid Masud, who moved by car, crashed into a crowd of people on the Westminster bridge located near the parliament building. There were killed a 43-year-old Spanish teacher Aisha Freud and a 54-year-old tourist from the United States Kurt Kokran. Then Masud attacked a 48-year-old policeman Keith Palmer, who was on duty at the territory adjacent to the parliament. Masuda himself was shot by the police. The terrorist intended to get inside the building.
Later, a 75-year-old resident of London Leslie Rhodes and a 31-year-old tourist from Romania Andrei Krista, who were injured on the Westminster bridge, died in the hospital. In total, about 40 people were injured.
Masud at birth, he received a different name - Edrien Russell Adjao, but changed it from religious beliefs after the adoption of Islam. The British police said that in the past, Masuda was held accountable for causing serious bodily harm, illegal storage of weapons and violation of public order. However, the charges related to terrorist activities were never presented to him.
The responsibility for this terrorist attack was taken by the Islamic State group banned in Britain, Russia and many other countries.
On December 19, in the central part of Berlin, a heavy truck crashed into a crowd of visitors to the Christmas market . As a result of the attack, 11 people died, 48 were injured of various severity. Many of them are in serious condition. Another murdered, Polish trucker was found in the cab. The terrorist shot him with the theft of a truck. Contractor of the attack, 24-year-old native of Tunisia Anis Amri, on the night of December 23 was shot by police in a suburb of Milan.
On July 14, a similar terrorist attack occurred in French Nice. The 31 -year -old Mukhamed Bulel (more correctly Broat), a native of Tunisia, who had France citizenship and the citizenship of Morocco, during the festivities on the occasion of the day of the Bastille , crashed into a truck into a crowd of celebrating and drove about 2 kilometers before the police shot him. 84 people became victims of the attack, including two citizens of Russia. Another 202, of which two Russians got into hospitals.