2017 Stockholm attack

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2017 Stockholm attack
Part of Terrorism in Sweden (Islamic terrorism in Europe (2014–present))
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The truck used in the attack being removed from the scene
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The path of the attack [1] [2]
Location Drottninggatan, Stockholm
Coordinates 59°19′58″N018°03′44″E / 59.33278°N 18.06222°E / 59.33278; 18.06222 Coordinates: 59°19′58″N018°03′44″E / 59.33278°N 18.06222°E / 59.33278; 18.06222
Date 7 April 2017 (2017-04-07)
c. 14:53 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Target Swedish citizens, Tourists
Attack type
 Vehicle-ramming attack
Weapons Hijacked Mercedes-Benz Actros [3]
Deaths 5 [4]
Non-fatal injuries
 14 serious [5]
Perpetrator Rakhmat Akilov
Motive Islamic terrorism
Swedish government military training in Iraq

On 7 April 2017, in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, a hijacked lorry was deliberately driven into crowds along Drottninggatan (Queen Street) before being crashed through a corner of an Åhléns department store. Five people were killed and 14 others were seriously injured.

Stockholm Capital city in Södermanland and Uppland, Sweden

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous urban area in the Nordic countries; 960,031 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Just outside the city and along the coast is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the capital of Stockholm County.

Sweden constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe

Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund, a strait at the Swedish-Danish border. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. Sweden has a total population of 10.2 million of which 2.4 million has a foreign background. It has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre (57/sq mi). The highest concentration is in the southern half of the country.

Vehicle-ramming attack form of attack in which a terrorist rams vehicle into people or structures

A vehicle-ramming attack is an assault in which a perpetrator deliberately rams a vehicle into a building, crowd of people, or another vehicle. The earliest known use of a vehicle-ramming attack took place in 1973 in Prague, former Czechoslovakia, when Olga Hepnarová killed 8 people. According to Stratfor Global Intelligence analysts, this attack represented a new militant tactic which is less lethal but could prove more difficult to prevent than suicide bombings.

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Police considered the attack an act of terrorism. Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old rejected asylum seeker born in the Soviet Union and a citizen of Uzbekistan, was apprehended the same day, suspected on probable cause of terrorist crimes through murder (a Swedish legal term). Swedish police said he has expressed sympathy with extremist organizations, among them the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), [6] and Uzbek authorities said he had allegedly joined ISIL before the attack. [7] According to the head prosecutor, Akilov had sworn his allegiance to the Islamic State in a self-recorded video the day before the attack. [8] Akilov admitted to carrying out the attack at a pre-trial hearing on 11 April.

An asylum seeker is a person who flees their home country, enters another country and applies for asylum, i.e. the right to international protection, in this other country. An asylum seeker is a type of migrant and may be a refugee, a displaced person, but not an economic migrant. Migrants are not necessarily asylum seekers. A person becomes an asylum seeker by making a formal application for the right to remain in another country and keeps that status until the application has been concluded. The applicant becomes an "asylee" if their claim is accepted and asylum is granted. The relevant immigration authorities of the country of asylum determine whether the asylum seeker will be granted protection and become an officially recognised refugee (asylee) or whether asylum will be refused and asylum seeker becomes an illegal immigrant who has to leave the country and may even be deported. The asylum seeker may be recognised as a refugee and given refugee status if the person's circumstances fall into the definition of "refugee" according to the 1951 Refugee Convention or other refugee laws, such as the European Convention on Human Rights – if asylum is claimed within the European Union. However signatories to the refugee convention create their own policies for assessing the protection status of asylum seekers, and the proportion of asylum applicants who are rejected varies from country to country and year to year.

The terms asylum seeker and refugee are often confused: an asylum-seeker is someone who says he or she is a refugee, but whose claim has not yet been definitively evaluated. On average, about 1 million people seek asylum on an individual basis every year.

Soviet Union 1922–1991 country in Europe and Asia

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 30 December 1922 to 26 December 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Other major urban centres were Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Alma-Ata, and Novosibirsk.

Uzbekistan Landlocked Republic in Central Asia

Uzbekistan, officially also the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. The sovereign state is a secular, unitary constitutional republic, comprising 12 provinces, one autonomous republic, and a capital city. Uzbekistan is bordered by five landlocked countries: Kazakhstan to the north; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast; Tajikistan to the southeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest. Along with Liechtenstein, it is one of the world's only two doubly landlocked countries.

Rakhmat Akilov was sentenced to life in prison and lifetime expulsion from Sweden on 7 June 2018. [9]

Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted persons are to remain in prison either for the rest of their natural life or until paroled. Crimes for which, in some countries, a person could receive this sentence include murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, blasphemy, apostasy, terrorism, severe child abuse, rape, child rape, espionage, treason, high treason, drug dealing, drug trafficking, drug possession, human trafficking, severe cases of fraud, severe cases of financial crimes, aggravated criminal damage in English law, and aggravated cases of arson, kidnapping, burglary, or robbery which result in death or grievous bodily harm, piracy, aircraft hijacking, and in certain cases genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, certain war crimes or any three felonies in case of three strikes law. Life imprisonment can also be imposed, in certain countries, for traffic offenses causing death. The life sentence does not exist in all countries, and Portugal was the first to abolish life imprisonment, in 1884.

Attack

Akilov chose to attack during an afternoon as there were many people and tourists in the area. [10] Akilov recorded a number of films in the Odenplan area where he is heard saying that it is time to kill "infidels" and that it grieved him how Muslims in the Levant and Afghanistan were dying. [11] The attack took place at about 14:53 local time. It began when a truck for the Spendrups brewery was hijacked while making a delivery on the street Adolf Fredriks kyrkogata in central Stockholm. According to a Spendrups press release, the driver attempted to stop the hijacker by standing in front of the truck, but had to jump out of the way and was slightly injured when the hijacker accelerated towards him. [12] [13]

Odenplan square in central Stockholm, Sweden

Odenplan is a plaza located in the district Vasastaden in central Stockholm, Sweden, named after the old Norse god Odin. The Odenplan metro station, opened in 1952, and Odenplan station on the Stockholm commuter rail, opened in 2017, are located here.

Spendrups

Spendrups Bryggeri AB is a Swedish brewery founded in 1897 as Grängesbergs Bryggeri AB. The company includes the following subsidiaries Spring Wine & Spirits, Gotlands Bryggeri and Hellefors Bryggeri. Spendrups Group has approximately 900 employees and sales revenue of approximately 3 billion Swedish kronor.

The hijacker then drove the truck at high speed into a pedestrian street, going about 500 metres (1,600 ft) down Drottninggatan, one of Stockholm's main shopping streets, hitting pedestrians along the way. Witnesses said the hijacker attempted to target children as he zigzagged on the street. [14] The attack ended when the truck rammed the Åhléns City department store on the corner of Drottninggatan and Mäster Samuelsgatan. The truck caught fire, but the flames were quickly doused by firefighters. The hijacker jumped out and fled the scene. [15]

Drottninggatan street in central Stockholm

Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, is a major pedestrian street. It stretches north from the bridge Riksbron at Norrström, in the district of Norrmalm, to Observatorielunden in the district of Vasastaden.

Åhléns company

Åhléns is a chain of Swedish department stores. With locations in almost every city in the country, including 18 in Stockholm alone as of March 2007, it is the fourth largest group of fashion stores in Sweden.

A homemade bomb was reportedly found in the truck after it was abandoned by the hijacker. Police sources said the device was found in a bag and had not been detonated, adding that the attacker had been burned by it. National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson later said they had found a suspicious object in the driver's seat that "could be a bomb or an incendiary device", and was pending further investigation. [16]

Dan Tore Eliasson is a Swedish lawyer and civil servant. He was appointed National Police Commissioner by the Minister for Home Affairs in November 2014 and began serving on 1 January 2015. Eliasson is a graduate of law at Uppsala University and had prior to his appointment served as director-general of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. He has also served as ambassador and Chief of International Affairs at the Ministry of Justice in 1999–2001, State Secretary under the Minister for Justice Thomas Bodström in 2001–2006, acting head of the Swedish Security Service in 2006 and the Director-General of the Swedish Migration Agency 2007–2011.

Casualties

Five people died as a result of the attack. Four of the victims who were killed at the scene or died in hospital shortly thereafter were identified as British Spotify executive Chris Bevington, 41, [17] Belgian psychologist Maïlys Dereymaeker, 31, [18] and Swedes Lena Wahlberg, 69, [19] and Ebba Åkerlund, 11. [20] 66-year-old Marie Kide, also Swedish, died in hospital three weeks after the attack. [21] In a press release on the day of the attack, the Stockholm County Council said that 15 people were being treated in hospitals, nine for serious injuries. [22]

Aftermath

Immediate response

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Swedish police officer in tactical gear on patrol the day after the attack in Stockholm

The Parliament House and the metro system were locked down in response to the attack, and Stockholm Central Station was evacuated. [23] All trains to and from Stockholm were put on hold, with traffic only resuming later in the evening. [24]

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said in a press statement that the attack appeared to be terrorism, and that police and security services were treating it as such. [24] Two days after the attack, Löfven said the following: [25] [26]

I wish today to first address you who grieve someone you've lost or worry for someone who is injured. You should know that all of Sweden is with you. We know that our enemies are these awful murderers – not one-another.

King Carl XVI Gustaf, on behalf of the Royal Family, gave their condolences, stating, "Our hearts go out to the victims of this terrible tragedy, and to their families." [27]

Swedish media reported on those who chose to help the injured, especially medical doctors working nearby who ran to help those in need. [28] Police from all over Stockholm were called in to assist after the attack. [29] [30]

Swedish border controls were tightened following the attack, and travelers from other countries, including Nordic countries, were advised by police to bring their passports. [31] However, the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) did not raise the risk assessment from "level 3" (on a scale of 1 to 5), the level it had been at since 2010. [32]

On the day of the attack, Norwegian police said officers in the country's largest cities and at Oslo Airport would be armed. [33] The day after the attack, a man was arrested and part of the Grønland district of Oslo closed off by police after a "bomb-like" device was found, which was later destroyed in a controlled explosion. [34] The man, a 17-year-old Russian citizen, was charged on 9 April with illegal possession of an explosive device. The man arrived with his family in Norway as an asylum seeker in 2010, and was known to the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) for having expressed support for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). [35] With his background from the Caucasus, the 17-year-old has been linked to two other young Chechen men from the same martial arts club in the northern village Vadsø who traveled to fight for ISIS in Syria. [36] The events led PST to raise the terror alert, indicating that attempted attacks during the coming year are "likely". [35] Police patrols were also increased in Finland's capital Helsinki. [37]

Reactions

Domestic

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Flowers just outside the Åhléns department store in Stockholm the day after the attack

On 9 April, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said the government intended to change immigration law to facilitate the removal of people whose applications to stay in Sweden have been rejected. [38]

On 9 April, more than forty thousand people gathered on Sergels torg (Sergel's Square) in Stockholm to honor the victims. [39] Many people visited the site of the attack, leaving flowers and candles for the victims on Sergels Torg and on Drottninggatan, [40] [41] resulting in what was described as a "sea of flowers". [42] Flowers were also left at Götaplatsen in Sweden's second-biggest city Gothenburg. [43]

After the attack, there were proposals in Aftonbladet —one of Sweden's biggest newspapers—that vehicles be banned from Stockholm city center so they cannot be used as weapons, citing the use of vehicles as terrorist weapons in Nice, Berlin, Jerusalem, London, and Stockholm. [44]

The department store Åhléns had planned to re-open two days after the attack, but received heavy criticism after saying they would be selling smoke-damaged clothing at reduced rates. Åhléns later chose to stay closed for one more day and not to sell any damaged clothing. [45]

The Swedish far-right was accused of trying to profit from the attack, producing fake news and circulating fake quotations online. This included tweets and social media posts from officials of the Sweden Democrats, a right-wing nationalist party. [46] A man with a name similar to that of the main suspect was falsely implicated on the website Avpixlat. [46] [47]

Following the attack, the social media website Facebook was criticized for not deleting images of badly wounded or dead victims. [48] On 11 April, a Facebook spokesman said the website had begun deleting the images. [49] Swedish authorities started cracking down on illegal immigrants in the country after the attack. [50]

International

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Finland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs, lit up in the colours of the Swedish flag, in order to commemorate the victims

The lights on the Eiffel Tower were switched off on the evening of the attack to mourn the deaths. [51] Nice, a city which bore witness to a similar but deadlier attack in 2016, raised the Swedish flag at half-mast the day after the attack to show solidarity with the Swedish people. [52] In Brussels, where a terrorist attack took place a year earlier, the ING Marnix building near the Throne metro station was also decorated with a moving Swedish flag animation.

Responses by the heads of state or foreign ministers of several European countries were issued within hours of the attack. However, discussion among US news media and officials was dominated by the American missile strike in Syria, which happened the same day. [53]

Stéphane Dujarric, the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, said, "Our sympathy goes to the families of the victims and all those affected and we wish the injured a prompt recovery. The United Nations stands in solidarity with the people and Government of Sweden". [54] Pope Francis also said prayers for the victims of the attack. [55]

Danish government minister Inger Støjberg expressed concerns that at least 12,000 illegal immigrants were still living in Sweden after having their asylum applications rejected. She said that if satisfactory answers could not be given by the Swedish government, Denmark would consider implementing border checks on the Danish side of the border. The only border checks done in April 2017 were on the Swedish side. [56]

Suspect

Swedish police initially published pictures of a man wearing a hooded jacket, who they wanted to question over the attack. At 19:55 (17:55 UTC) on 7 April, Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old construction worker [57] from Uzbekistan, was apprehended in Märsta, north of Stockholm, [24] [58] suspected, on probable cause, [lower-alpha 1] of "terrorist crimes through murder". [59] The police said he had been found "behaving suspiciously with minor injuries" [16] and was believed to have driven the truck. [60] He was officially arrested at 01:15 on 8 April, [58] [61] and formally identified by the Swedish Prosecution Authority on 11 April. [62]

The Swedish Security Service (Säpo) was heavily involved in the investigation. In 2016, Säpo had received some information on the suspect, but were unable to confirm it when they followed up on it. [63] They reportedly deemed him a "marginal figure" on the fringes of extremist groups. [64]

Akilov came from a Russian speaking family from a village outside Samarkand, currently in Uzbekistan. His older brother Olim Akilov stated in an interview with Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that they considered themselves a "typical Soviet family", and he mentions that they did not welcome the collapse of the USSR. According to the brother, neither Rakhmat Akilov nor his children were ever religious, and Rakhmat didn't attend mosque in Russia or Uzbekistan or show signs of increased religiosity. Akilov moved to Russia in 2009 to work at the same cement factory outside Moscow as his older brother, which he did until 2013 when he lost this job. [65]

As stated by Akilov during police interrogation, in Tashkent he applied for a visa to Poland, after which travelled to Warsaw and then Gdansk, from where he took a ferry to Sweden. [66]

Akilov arrived in Sweden on 10 October 2014. He claimed asylum at the Swedish Migration Agency. [67] The agency registered his application under the given fake name although his true identity was known and despite that according to the Dublin Regulation his application should have been handled in Poland, as he already had a visa there. [67] [66] Akilov stated he needed refuge from "the Uzbek security services which he claims tortured him and accused him of terrorism and treason". [67] However, Sweden's Migration Board ruled that there was no evidence of this, and in late 2016, Akilov was ordered to leave Sweden within four weeks. [68] When he failed to do so voluntarily and did not appear at the Swedish Migration Agency when called, the case was referred to the police; [69] however, he went into hiding and could not be found for deportation. [70] Reportedly, he lived at various addresses in Stockholm suburbs and was known as a hard worker, and a "normal Muslim" who visited the mosque on Fridays but got drunk on weekends and used cannabis. [71] Shortly before the attack, Akilov was fired from his construction job, due to using drugs and sleeping while at work on dangerous construction sites with asbestos. [72]

On 9 April, Swedish police said Akilov had "expressed sympathy for extremist organizations, among them IS [Islamic State]". [6] [70] [73] On 14 April, Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said that Akilov had joined ISIL after moving to Sweden, and had encouraged friends and family in Uzbekistan to fight for ISIL. [7] Uzbekistan had opened an investigation and charged Akilov with participation in extremist, separatist and fundamentalist groups, as well as with making and distributing material that threatened public security. [74] An Uzbek security source said Akilov had tried to travel to Syria in 2015 to join ISIL but was stopped at the Turkey-Syria border and sent back to Sweden. The source added that, two months before the attack, Uzbek authorities had put Akilov on a wanted list for those suspected of religious extremism. [7] The Foreign Minister said that intelligence on Akilov had been "passed to one of our Western partners, so that the Swedish side could be informed". The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs said it had not received such information. ISIS has not claimed responsibility for the attack, but experts note that the group tends not to do so if its members are arrested, as in the Stockholm attack. [74]

Akilov was registered at the same address as another person with links to financial crime. Initial suspicions of those involved sending money to ISIS could not be confirmed, though a number of people were convicted of false accounting and severe tax crimes. [75] Early reports suggested Akilov had exchanged WhatsApp messages with a Chechen ISIL supporter just before and immediately after the attack. [76] The authenticity of the chat was questioned, however. [77] His former Facebook page reportedly linked to extremists and featured at least two ISIS propaganda videos. [64] It has also been suggested that he had liked a Facebook page called "Friends of Libya and Syria", whose aim is to expose the "terrorism of the imperialistic financial capitals" of the United States, Britain, and Arab "dictatorships". [78] During his time in prison, Akilov had made "Hitler salutes" and racially insulted personnel, leading to an investigation for racial agitation [79] which was later dropped as the threats and insults were directed to specific individuals and not made public. Akilov has shown aggressive tendencies in prison, which requires him to be protected by four employees, including one armed. [80]

Akilov has supported the islamist organisation Hizb-ut-Tahrir on social media. [81]

According to the prosecutor, Akilov's motive for carrying out the attack was to make the Swedish government cease its military training effort in Iraq. [8]

The public prosecutor successfully requested Akilov be remanded in custody (in Swedish, häktad [lower-alpha 2] ) during the preliminary investigation on 10 April 2017, pending a decision on prosecution. [82] According to his lawyer, he "has expressed the explicit wish to be defended by a lawyer who is Sunni Muslim". [62] His request was rejected by the Stockholm District Court. [83] A pre-trial hearing was held at Stockholm District Court on 11 April, where his lawyer said he confessed to a terrorist crime and intends to plead guilty. [84] A court-ordered psychological evaluation determined that Akilov did not suffer from any mental disorder at the time of the attack. [85] The prosecutor indicted Akilov for terrorist crimes on 30 January 2018. [86]

Rakhmat Akilov was formally charged on 30 January 2018. The leading prosecutor in the case was Hans Ihrman, who submitted the indictment to the Stockholm District Court. [87]

On 7 June 2018, the court found Akilov guilty of terrorist crimes by five murders, attempted terrorist crimes by 119 counts of attempted murder and 24 counts of endangering others. He was sentenced to life in prison, and following his jail time [88] he will be deported and banned from returning to Sweden. [9]

Akilov's public defender Johan Eriksson stated on 11 June 2018 that Akilov does not intend to appeal against his sentence. [89] Akilov will be legally allowed to request a time-set prison sentence in 2028. If released, he would be deported to Uzbekistan. [90]

Akilov was imprisoned in Kumla Prison, a high security facility. In August 2018, he was assaulted by a fellow inmate who wanted vengeance for Akilov's terrorist attack. [91]

Further investigation

On 8 April, five other people were detained by police. Three of them were detained after a car, the owner of which was linked to the main suspect, was stopped on Kungsholmen. In the suburb of Vårberg, police raided an apartment where the main suspect was said to have been just hours before the attack; there, they detained at least two people. [92] As of 10 April, all of them had been released from police custody. [93]

On 9 April, a second suspect was arrested on a lower level of suspicion of terrorist crimes through murder. [94] The police confirmed apparent links between the second suspect and Rakhmat Akilov. [95] On 11 April, the prosecutor revoked the arrest of the suspect. According to the prosecutor, the suspicions had weakened and there were therefore no grounds to apply for a detention order. The individual would however immediately be taken into police custody due to an earlier decision on expulsion from Sweden, as an application for legal residency in the country had been rejected. [96]

On 10 April, police said that the investigation could take about one year to complete. [95] On 13 April, police said that they had held about 700 interrogations and made approximately 300 seizures during the preliminary investigation. [97]

On 23 April, another person was arrested for an undisclosed offense. [98] [99] Two days later, on 25 April, the arrest was revoked as the person was cleared of any involvement in the attack. [100]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The highest level of suspicion for terror crime under current Swedish law. [59]
  2. ↑ Häktning is a pre-trial supervision measure pursuant to Swedish law, meaning that a suspect can be detained by a court in the case of crimes for which there is a prison term of one year or more.

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