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 faculty 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 lady 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 keeping with the Dagens Nyheter newspaper, the picture appeared to have been taken in a restroom on the faculty.
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 faculty in Trollhattan, western Sweden, earlier than being shot useless by police.
“The investigators are trying 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 a number of 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.
