Last wednesday, a man was arrested on suspicion of committing a terrorist crime in the Stockholm area in August. However, neither the prosecutor nor the security police will reveal any details about the case or even say whether anyone was injured in connection with the crime.
It was Telia-owned TV4 News that first confirmed that Säpo, the Swedish security police, had arrested a suspected terrorist on Wednesday and that the crime itself had been committed sometime last month, but they would not give any more details than that.
– The case has been ongoing for some time … it is true that a person is in custody and it concerns one of our operational areas, Gabriel Wernstedt of the Swedish Security Service press office told the broadcaster.
– A person was arrested in the Stockholm area on Wednesday, September 4. The person is suspected of terrorist crimes. The case is not related to any other case in the Security Service.
Mats Ljungqvist, prosecutor at the National Security Service, does not wish to comment further.
– The crime took place in August 2024 in the Stockholm area. I don’t want to go into what it’s about. There is pre-trial secrecy.
Denies crime
He also does not want to answer whether anyone died or was injured in connection with the terrorist crime, and cannot comment more precisely on where it took place.
According to Säpo, the investigation is at a “very early stage”, but at least they assure that there is “no danger to the public related to the case” at the moment.
The suspect denies any wrongdoing and by tomorrow at the latest the prosecutor will decide whether or not to arrest him.
– We are now working intensively with the investigation, says Mats Ljungqvist.
