STOCKHOLM: Swedish police are investigating whether or not an 18-year-old man who attacked college students at a Swedish highschool with a sword on Friday (Aug 21), killing one, was concerned in on-line communities selling college violence, a police supply stated.
The attacker struck at a school within the central Swedish city of Fagersta, additionally severely injuring two teenage boys earlier than being arrested by police. The dad and mom of a 17-year-old woman instructed native newspaper Fagersta-Posten that their daughter was killed within the assault.
Police are investigating whether or not a TikTok account that posted an image of a sword 20 minutes earlier than the assault belonged to the suspect, the supply instructed Reuters. In accordance with the Dagens Nyheter newspaper, the picture appeared to have been taken in a restroom on the college.
Earlier than it was taken down on Friday, the month-old account contained movies that referred to 2 mass violence assaults in Sweden and to Norwegian far-right mass assassin Anders Behring Breivik. It additionally referenced a 2015 assault, the place a masked swordsman killed a instructing assistant and two boys at a college in Trollhattan, western Sweden, earlier than being shot useless by police.
“The investigators are wanting into varied on-line communities which could have egged on the suspect to hold out the assault,” the police supply stated.
Prosecutors on Saturday ordered the person’s detention on suspicion of homicide and several other counts of tried homicide.
“The investigation is at an intense stage. We’re conducting interrogations and gathering info, however I can not go into specifics,” Prosecutor Ann-Sofie Trossing instructed Reuters.
