Stockholm Suspect Was Denied Asylum and Told to Leave in ’16
By CHRISTINA ANDERSONAPRIL 9, 2017
STOCKHOLM — The Uzbek man arrested in the terrorism rampage in central Stockholm last week was an asylum seeker whose application was rejected
and who in December was given four weeks to leave the country, the Swedish police said on Sunday.
" he said. that Given the information that the Swedish Security Service has been providing in recent years, there
are a couple of hundred people in Sweden who have the capability and the will to carry out these type of attacks,
Ygeman said that We have taken the first step, criminalizing traveling to
and fighting with a terrorist organization in another country or receiving terrorist training,
The assault, in a city known for its tolerance and openness, came after the Swedish Security Service, or Sapo, warned in March in its annual security report
that a terrorist acting alone was likely to attack somewhere in the country within a year.
Sapo said that Unfortunately, this type of low-tech attack is something we have been discussing for years,
The police tried to find him in February of this year to execute the exit order,
but he had gone underground, becoming a wanted man, Jonas Hysing, the national strategic commander, said at a news conference on Sunday at the Stockholm police headquarters.
Sweden wrote that There are no words for how missed he will be or for how sad we all are to have lost him like this,
