https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/princess-estelle-wishes-everyone-a-happy-lucia/
The Swedish Royal Court and Princess Estelle wish everyone a happy Lucia day.
In a picture posted by the Royal Family on Instagram, the Princess, now twelve years old, can be seen playing for the family in traditional Lucia clothes and crown.
“Happy Lucia morning from Haga!”, the Royal Family writes on Instagram.
The photo was taken by her mother Crown Princess Victoria on Lucia morning.
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https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/former-swedish-politician-convicted-of-sexual-harassment-of-minor-avoids-prison/
Gustav Hemming, former regional politician and leading figure for the Center Party in the Stockholm Region, was convicted on Wednesday by the Attunda District Court for sexual harassment after masturbating in front of a 13-year-old boy.
The district court established that the crime had a clear sexual motive and violated the child’s sexual integrity. Despite this, Hemming was sentenced to probation, thus avoiding prison time.
The incident occurred on the Roslagsbanan commuter train in August last year, and the 52-year-old politician has admitted to the act. However, in police interviews, he claimed that the act was not criminal, arguing that he had perceived a sexual connection and that he did not understand that the boy was so young.
– I was looking around a bit and I perceived some kind of contact there that explains why, well, I perceived a kind of mutuality that can be sexually arousing in an anonymous environment, Hemming said during questioning and continued:
– From my perspective, it was a derailed sexualized flirtation.
The court dismissed this defense and determined that Hemming should have realized that the victim was a child.
“According to the district court, the politician must have understood that the victim was under 15 years of age, and since the act had a clear sexual nature and was intended to violate the victim’s sexual integrity, he is convicted of sexual harassment of a minor”, the court states.
The case became known after the TV program “Efterlyst” (Sweden’s equivalent of “America’s Most Wanted”) showed images of a man touching himself, both inside and outside his clothes, on Stockholm public transport.
A party colleague recognized Hemming and alerted the Center Party, which in turn filed a police report. The Center Party official resigned from his position this winter and was charged in May.
The district court assessed that there is no elevated risk of recidivism, which justifies the probationary sentence.
The Nordic Times has in several articles highlighted Hemming’s case – including reporting on how he was granted approximately €1.1 million in severance pay from taxpayer money, as long as he is not convicted of serious crimes.
Conditional sentence
A conditional sentence is a penalty in the Swedish legal system where the convicted person avoids prison but instead is placed under a two-year probationary period. During this period, the person must not commit any new crimes.
Conditional sentences are often given to individuals who are deemed to have a low risk of reoffending and have no prior criminal record. The sentence can be combined with fines, community service, or - as in this case - compensation to the victim.
https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/sweden-democrats-leader-supports-continued-strikes-on-iran/
Jimmie Åkesson, leader of the Sweden Democrats party, supports the US and Israeli attacks against Iran – and would like to see more of the regime’s leaders eliminated through continued bombing.
– I believe this is the only way to achieve political change within any reasonable time frame, he claims.
During an appearance at Almedalen Week (an annual Swedish political forum) in Visby, he commented to Swedish news agency TT about the American bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities.
– It has both positive and negative aspects. And we’ll have to see what happens. But fundamentally, I think it’s good.
According to the Sweden Democrats leader, “evil must be fought with harsh measures”, and he assesses that the Iranian regime has been significantly weakened by the attacks.
Jimmie Åkesson (SD) framför ett tydligt och kraftfullt ställningstagande när det gäller Sveriges relation till Israel och synen på den iranska regimen. Han uttrycker ett starkt stöd för Israel som en demokratisk rättsstat i en konfliktfylld region, samtidigt som han markerar… pic.twitter.com/zckWkb5wYK
— Nima Rostami (@Nima_Ros) June 25, 2025
His hope is that the bombings will continue – but with a focus on eliminating leading representatives of the Iranian state – the same approach advocated by Netanyahu’s government and Israel’s military.
– The best outcome would be to follow through with this to achieve change in Iran after almost 50 years of oppression.
– Now they have primarily destroyed these nuclear facilities, which is of course very good. But certainly, continued bombing, continuing to eliminate leaders of this Islamist regime, that’s a very effective way to bring about change.
Regarding the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Åkesson also gives his support to Netanyahu and Israel’s actions, claiming that the Israeli regime is acting in a way that is directly necessary and “doing what needs to be done”.
– Of course, this should be done within the framework of international law. Israel isn’t perfect, they’ve surely made mistakes in various contexts, but overall, the right to self-defense is completely reasonable, he says and continues:
– They’re defending themselves in a war not against a state but against a terrorist organization that doesn’t follow any international laws of war.
However, not everyone is impressed by Åkesson’s nearly unlimited support for Israel, and Gustav Kasselstrand, leader of the nationalist party Alternative for Sweden, writes on X that “Åkesson seems more loyal to Israel than to Sweden”.
“Now he wants to see a new globalist war in the Middle East, this time against a sovereign state like Iran – which hasn’t attacked another country throughout its existence. But the regime must be changed as it disturbs American-Israeli interests in the region, and it should preferably be done with bombs; as if we don’t have enough horrific examples when this was done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Libya”, he notes.
Åkessons Almedalstal är verkligen en uppvisning i självförnedring inför Israellobbyn. Åkesson tycks mer lojal till Israel än till Sverige.
Nu vill han se ett nytt globalistiskt krig i Mellanöstern, denna gång mot en suverän stat som Iran – som inte attackerat ett annat land… pic.twitter.com/aqYN6h4wid
— Gustav Kasselstrand (AFS) (@gustavkassel) June 24, 2025
Kasselstrand, who has a background as chairman of the Sweden Democrats’ youth organization, also points out that the wars and regime change operations in the Middle East have almost without exception resulted in massive refugee flows and Muslim mass immigration to Europe – phenomena that the Sweden Democrats themselves claim they want to stop.
“How can it be ‘fighting Islamism’ to start a new devastating war with gigantic refugee flows of Muslims entering Europe?” he asks.
https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/government-aims-to-halve-swedens-wolf-population/
The Swedish government has decided to lower the minimum number of wolves required to ensure the species’ survival in Sweden. The new reference value has been adjusted down from 300 to 170 individuals.
The decision has received sharp criticism from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (Naturskyddsföreningen), which warns that wolves risk disappearing entirely from Sweden in the long term.
Sweden reports to the EU every six years on the status of endangered species under the Species and Habitats Directive. For this year’s report, the government has instructed the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) to lower the reference value for wolves – that is, the minimum number of individuals required for the species to survive and persist long-term – from 300 to 170.
According to the Ministry of Rural Affairs and Infrastructure, there are currently 355 wolves in Sweden.
The reference value indicates how many individuals of a species are minimally needed in a country for the species to be preserved long-term in its natural range. It is used as one of several indicators to assess the species’ conservation status and is reported to the EU under the Species and Habitats Directive. In Sweden’s latest report in 2019, the reference value for wolves was set at 300.
The government’s decision to lower the reference value faces strong opposition from environmental and animal protection organizations, which point out that the wolf population in Sweden is already under severe pressure from inbreeding and illegal hunting. The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation argues that the lowered threshold violates both scientific recommendations and EU law.
– The government is making decisions that could lead to wolves disappearing from Sweden in the long term. Lowering the reference value to just 170 individuals from today’s 300 weakens an already critically endangered species, says Beatrice Rindevall, chairperson of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, in a press release.
– The wolf is critically endangered on the red list and needs protection. It is an explicit requirement that the reference value should be based on scientific grounds, but the government is driven by polarizing threat scenarios instead of facts, she further argues.
Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs Peter Kullgren (Christian Democrats) argues that an excessive wolf population causes significant damage to society – and that wolves today have a negative impact on Swedish food production.
– We can conclude that if we have 170 wolves in Sweden, we’re at a level that simply works.
As a first step, the wolf population will be reduced from the current 355 to 270 individuals – and according to Kullgren, this means that the next wolf hunt will be significantly more extensive than usual.
https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/swedish-police-ignored-early-warnings-about-foxtrot-now-16-civilians-are-dead/
Despite the Swedish police raising the alarm about the growing Foxtrot gang network back in 2021, the leadership chose not to act. Today, the network is linked to over 30 murders – at least 16 of which were completely unrelated civilians.
The documentary series En gång bröder (Once Brothers) reveals that a special police investigation team identified Foxtrot four years ago as a rapidly expanding group with a high propensity for violence.
According to the head of intelligence at the police, Jale Poljarevius, the group sounded the alarm early on – but the alarm was deprioritized in favor of other gangs.
– If we could turn back time, we would have quickly redirected our efforts in this direction, Poljarevius told state broadcaster SVT, admitting that Foxtrot had long been off the police’s radar.
It was only after several high-profile murders in 2022 that Foxtrot began to come under police scrutiny. According to the documentary, the network has since been linked to over 30 murders, at least 16 of which were innocent civilians with no gang connections.
The division within Foxtrot in September 2023 marked a new level of violence. One faction, led by the internationally wanted Rawa Majid – also known as “Jordgubben” (Strawberry) – is suspected of, among other things, the murder of Ismail Abdo’s mother, which further escalated the conflict.
During the summer of 2023, Swedish police managed to infiltrate the network using encrypted chat groups such as the Signal app. This breakthrough led to several arrests and indictments against a number of people in Foxtrot’s top echelons, including for particularly serious drug offenses.
Despite this, the violence continues. According to SVT’s information, the network has also expanded to Norway, where Swedish gang crime has become a growing problem.
At the time of writing, National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg has declined to comment on the investigation.
Facts: The Foxtrot gang network
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