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Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson delivers a press conference at Rosenbad, the Government Offices building in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 17, 2023, following terrorist attack in Brussels. – Sweden’s intelligence agency said it was keeping its terror alert level unchanged after Brussels police on October 17, 2023 shot and fatally wounded an attacker accused of gunning down two Swedish football fans in what Belgium’s prime minister condemned as an act of “terrorist madness”. (Photo by Fredrik SANDBERG / TT News Agency / AFP)
Brussels police on Tuesday shot and fatally wounded the suspected attacker.
“Sweden has in modern times never been under as big a threat as now,” Kristersson told reporters after two Swedish football fans were killed and a third injured in the shooting on Monday evening.
“Every indication is that this is a terror attack, targeting Sweden and Swedish citizens, just because they are Swedes,” he said, adding he felt an “unfathomable sadness”.
In August, Sweden’s intelligence service Sapo raised its threat level to four on a scale of five after a series of Koran burnings across the country had made it a “prioritised target”.
“It was risks like this that were the reason Sapo this summer raised the threat level from three to four,” Kristersson said.
“Now we know with chilling clarity that there was cause for the concern that they and we in the government described,” he added.
The prime minister vowed “to protect our open, democratic society”.
“They want to scare us into silence … That’s not going to happen,” he said.
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