Stockholm bombing in 2010
In the 2010 Stockholm bombing , an assassin set off an explosive device in his car on December 11, 2010 at a busy intersection in the Swedish capital, Stockholm . Two passers-by were injured. Minutes later, the assassin Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, a 28-year-old Swedish citizen of Iraqi origin, died from an explosive device on his body.
Sequence of events
On the Saturday before the third Advent, Stockholm's Drottninggatan was very busy. At around 5 p.m., shortly before closing time, an explosive device exploded in an Audi parked on a corner. The car, which was registered in the name of the assassin, went up in flames. Many people ran away, two people were slightly injured. The fire brigade put out the burning car.
Before that, the assassin held up the billboard for a fish-and-chip shop on the corner of Olof-Palme-Gata. After the detonation, he moved away from his location. Ten minutes after the car explosion, a few hundred meters away in a small side street an explosive device exploded on the body of the assassin. Only one of six pipe bombs he wore on his body exploded. Next to the dead man was the billboard, in front of him was a backpack filled with nails and explosives.
Presumably the device exploded prematurely; possibly the perpetrator was on the way to Stockholm Central Station or a well-known department store. Next to the body of the perpetrator, the police found a PMR radio , which was believed to be used as a remote detonator for the car bomb. If the bomb had been detonated on busy Drottninggatan, it could have killed hundreds of people.
A threatening e-mail and an audio message in Swedish and Arabic were received by the Säpo security police and several media offices a few minutes before the attacks . These messages were signed and spoken by the assassin.
To the background
One motive for the Islamist-motivated attack was Sweden's participation in the NATO mission in Afghanistan . Spiegel online reported on December 13, 2010 that the assassin was very active in various social networks on the Internet and positioned himself there against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The perpetrator's name was published on an Islamist website after the attack.
In his messages, the assassin had threatened retaliation for the involvement of Swedish soldiers in the Afghanistan war and for the alleged mockery of the Prophet Mohammed by the artist Lars Vilks , who had drawn Mohammed as a dog. In a “Message to the Swedish People” he said: “Now your children, daughters and sisters will die just as our brothers and sisters are killed” '. He sent the message to “all mujahideen in Sweden and Europe”: “Fear no one, not prison, not death.” The message was received by the Stockholm police and a Swedish press agency ( TT ).
Two days after the attack, the responsible public prosecutor announced that the attack had been "well prepared"; one suspects that he had helpers.
After the attack, the Swedish private broadcaster TV4 commissioned a sound engineer to evaluate the attacker's audio message. According to the sound engineer, two people can be heard on the recording: an inhalation can be heard while the perpetrator speaks. According to the newspaper Expressen , Säpo also evaluated surveillance videos from a petrol station in Tranås in southern Sweden . The assassin grew up there.
In October 2010, Säpo pointed out an increased security risk. In November 2010, she arrested three men for an allegedly planned attack on a shopping center in Gothenburg, but released them the same day. The preliminary examination was discontinued a few days later.
Perpetrator
The perpetrator Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly came to Sweden with his parents from Iraq in 1992 (after the Second Gulf War ). After graduating from high school, he began studying at Bedfordshire University in Luton in 2001 , where he joined radical Islamist groups. The British police searched the house where the family of the perpetrator was reported in Luton on 13 December 2010; she didn't arrest anyone. The assassin left three children.
Al-Abdalys's father-in-law publicly distanced himself from his son-in-law and said that he had been brainwashed . He was a terrorist who rejected what Sweden did for him. His daughter did not know that her husband was planning an attack.
Reactions
On Sunday, December 12, 2010, Säpo classified the attack as a “very serious act of terrorism”. At this point it was not clear whether it was a lone perpetrator or an attack planned by a terrorist cell.
After the attack, the Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt expressed concern about the attack on what he said was an open Swedish society. The opposition party of the Swedish Social Democrats sharply criticized the conservative Foreign Minister Carl Bildt , who, according to his own statements, had seen a terror threat for Sweden, but had not warned the Swedish public.
Swedish Muslim representatives condemned the attack. "We are true Muslims and a true Muslim has nothing to do with an act of terrorism," said Imam Ben Mahmoud Rahmeh during Friday prayers after the attack in a Stockholm mosque. He went on to say, "Sweden is our country and its people are our people. What makes the country happy, makes us happy. What hurts the nation hurts us."
The imam of Stockholm's Zayed-bin-Sultan-Al-Nahyans Mosque , the largest mosque in Sweden, blamed “democratic terror” for the attack: “You always blame Muslims in every political or financial crisis. He didn't kill anyone. He only killed himself. In my opinion, he is the victim of false democracy. The democratic terror caused this act. "
In the United Kingdom , Scotland Yard started a media campaign shortly after the Stockholm attack to urge the population to be more vigilant about possible attacks. On March 8, 2011, a suspect was arrested in Strathclyde, Scotland , who is believed to be linked to the attack.
See also
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Terrorist act in Sweden: Stockholm suicide bomber has been identified ( Memento from December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) - Financial Times Deutschland; December 13, 2010
- ↑ location 1.Explosion 59 ° 20 '8.5 " N , 18 ° 3' 35.5" O
- ↑ location 2.Explosion 59 ° 20 '0.9 " N , 18 ° 3' 41.7" O
- ↑ diepresse.com December 12, 2010: Stockholm narrowly escapes terrorist catastrophe
- ^ Spiegel online December 13, 2010
- ↑ orf.at December 16, 2010
- ↑ DN 9 November 2010: Säpo kan ha blivit utnyttjade som riktiga idioter
- ↑ http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/stockholmanschlag104.html ( Memento from December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ https://www.fr.de/politik/schweden-terrorschock-11678270.html
- ↑ Swedish Muslims condemn suicide attack. In: nzz.ch. December 17, 2010, accessed October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ The Conquest of Europe by Islam - Terror - Episode 1/3 , 4-part Israeli documentary series for "Channel 10" (Israel) by Zvi Yehezkeli and David Deryi (original title: "Allah Islam", also "Islam in Europe", 2012 ), Subtitles of the interview from min. 8:40
- ↑ SVT: En gripen efter Stockholmsbomb ( Memento from March 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )