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WORLD NEWS Monday 10 april 2017

Suspect’s status as failed asylum-seeker saddens Stockholm

MATTI HUUHTANEN many, Britain and Russia.
JAN M. OLSEN “The attacks demonstrate
Associated Press how easy such attacks can
STOCKHOLM (AP) — be carried out, and prove
Swedes questioned their to others that it is possible
country’s welcoming immi- to make something simi-
gration policies with pride lar,” Bjornland said.
and pain on Sunday after Sweden has long been
learning that an asylum- known for its open-door
seeker from Uzbekistan policy toward migrants
was allegedly behind the and refugees. But after the
truck rampage that killed Scandinavian country of
four people, Stockholm’s 10 million took in a record
deadliest extremist attack 163,000 refugees in 2015
in years. — the highest per-capi-
The Swedish capital was ta rate in Europe — the
slowly, but resolutely, re- government has tried to
gaining its normal rhythm as be more selective about
details about the 39-year- which newcomers it allows
old suspect in the attack to stay.Swedish police said
emerged. Police said he Sunday they had received
had been ordered to leave roughly 12,500 referrals
Sweden in December be- A woman writes a message on a wooden plank at the department store Ahlens in Stockholm, from the Swedish Migra-
Sweden, Sunday, April 9, 2017. A hijacked truck was driven into a crowd of pedestrians and
cause his request for a resi- crashed into a department store on Friday. tion Board of people who,
dence permit was rejected (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) like the suspect in the truck
six months earlier. attack, had overstayed
Instead, he allegedly went news agency TT on Sunday. four others were being held effect. their welcome.The suspect
underground, eluding au- The suspect, who has been by police. None of them Norwegian’s security agen- eluded authorities by giv-
thorities’ attempts to track detained on suspicion have been identified. cy said it wasn’t clear if the ing police a wrong ad-
down and deport him un- of terrorist offenses, was Security officials in neigh- teen planned to carry out dress after his residency re-
til a hijacked beer truck known known for having boring Norway, where a an attack with the primitive quest was rejected in June
raced down a pedestrian “been sympathetic to ex- 17-year-old asylum-seeker homemade device police 2016, said Hysing, the op-
street and rammed into an tremist organizations,” Jo- from Russia was detained defused without any inju- erative head of the attack
upscale department store nas Hysing of Sweden’s na- early Sunday in connection ries. Agency head Bene- investigation.“The efforts
on Friday. tional police said. with an explosive device dicte Bjornland said it was to locate (these people) is
“It makes me frustrated,” A second person was ar- found near a busy subway likely the youth had been both time-consuming and
Swedish Prime Minister Ste- rested on the same poten- station, spoke of the alarm- inspired by recent attacks resource-intensive,” he
fan Lofven told Swedish tial charge Sunday, and ing potential for a copycat in Stockholm, France, Ger- said.q
Teen asylum-seeker ID’d as suspect in Norway explosive case

JAN M. OLSEN plosives, but investigators volved,” she said. public, Bjornland said with- be carried out, and prove
Associated Press do not know if he planned The youth was not identi- out elaborating.“It is likely to others that it is possible
COPENHAGEN, Denmark to carry out an attack with fied, but security service that that attacks in France, to make something similar,”
(AP) — A 17-year-old asy- the homemade device, head Benedicte Bjornland German, Great Britain, Rus- she added.
lum-seeker from Russia was Signe Aaling, chief pros- said Norwegian intelligence sia and Sweden can cre- The teenage suspect’s law-
arrested Sunday in con- ecutor for Norway’s PST se- was aware of him. He is an ate a copycat effect in yer, Aase Karine Sigmond,
nection with an explosive curity service, said. asylum-seeker from Russia Norway with people with told Norwegian broadcast-
device found near a busy Aaling described the explo- who arrived in Norway with Islamic sympathies,” Bjorn- er NRK that her client de-
subway station in Norway’s sive as “a primitive impro- his family in 2010, Bjornland land said, listing the loca- nies wrongdoing and had
capital that police defused vised explosive device with said.Bjornland also alleged tions of extremist attacks distanced himself from the
before it detonated, au- limited damage potential.” that the youth was part of that have devastated Eu- Islamic State group.“We
thorities said. “PST is now working on find- “extreme Islamism” circles rope in the last year. are talking about boyish
The youth was detained on ing his intentions and find in Norway. He was arrested “The attacks demonstrate stupidities,” Sigmond told
suspicion of handling ex- out whether others are in- based on a tip from the how easy such attacks can NRK.q