Eleven confirmed dead in Örebro campus shooting
Eleven people have been confirmed dead in the worst mass shooting in Swedish history, and police warned the death and injury toll from Örebro may rise.
The suspected gunman – a 35-year-old man, described by relatives as a loner, according to Swedish media – is among the dead, after reportedly having turned the gun on himself after police arrived at the scene of Campus Risbergska, an adult education centre.
Police believe the suspect acted alone and did not have a terror motive, nor does he have any known gang links.
At the time of writing, new information is still emerging, and we’ll cover the latest on The Local throughout the day.
Swedish vocabulary: a suspect – en misstänkt
Sweden’s public broadcaster targeted in paint attacks
Sweden’s public broadcaster, SVT, has been targeted in a series of vandalism attacks where pain was thrown at the entrance of its buildings.
Four paint attacks have been directed at SVT’s Stockholm headquarters since September, the latest one at the start of the week, and two at its Malmö branch during Eurovision Song Contest last year.
Several of the attacks have been claimed by pro-Palestinian activists in protest against SVT’s coverage of the war with Israel in Gaza.
“SVT has picked a side in this genocide, and we’re going to make sure that they will have to pay the price,” SVT quotes the group as writing on Instagram.
Swedish vocabulary: paint – färg
120 Swedes set to be deported from the US
Around 1.4 million people who lack a permit to live in the US are set to be deported as the Trump administration steps up the efforts to expel foreigners without the legal right to stay. A total of 120 of them are from Sweden, according to a list published by Fox News.
Migration Minister Johan Forssell said the government doesn’t know who these people are, if they have committed any crimes, or whether they’re in the US without a permit or have neglected to extend their permit.
“We are looking into which people it could be, what the basis for this is and whether they are security cases and what measures we need to take in Sweden,” he told the TT news agency.
Forssell said the government would contact the Swedish embassy in Washington DC.
The majority of the people on the list are from Latin America. As for the people from the Nordic countries, 22 are reportedly from Finland, 39 from Norway, 45 from Denmark and 5 from Iceland.
Swedish vocabulary: doesn’t know – vet inte
Swedish migration minister: No transition period for new citizenship rules
Sweden’s migration minister has said that new tougher citizenship rules should apply even to applications sent in before they come into force.
A government inquiry recommended at the start of last month that the new rules, which among other things will increase the residency requirement from five to eight years, should not be applied retroactively.
It recommended instead that people who submit their citizenship application before the new law comes into force on June 1st, 2026, have their applications handled under current rules.
But Sweden’s migration minister Johan Forssell on Tuesday confirmed fears that the government intended to overrule this part of the inquiry’s conclusions.
“In the last year alone, we had 600 security cases connected to citizenship, and I think that it is important when we are overhauling the whole rulebook on citizenship that these changes apply immediately, so that the Säpo security police have a better chance of keeping checks on these people,” he said.
This means that the bill to be submitted to parliament is likely to require the Migration Agency to judge applications based on the rules in place at the time the decision is made, rather than the rules in place at the time of application.
Swedish vocabulary: a rule – en regel
