One arrested after the attack on the Swedish Spel CEO – Aftonbladet

A man has been arrested after the attack on the Swedish Spel CEO Lennart Source.

Lennart source was stopped in his car in Ekerö and threatened with a gun.

– He was arrested yesterday afternoon, said Lars Bystrom the police.

A man has been arrested for the attack on the Swedish game’s president, Lennart Source. The accused man, who was born in 1978, could be arrested yesterday.

– I do not want to go into what led to that we could arrest him, says Lars Bystrom, press spokesman at Stockholm police.

no clear motive

police would not comment on where the suspect was arrested. He now suspected of aggravated robbery, attempted extortion and abuse of judicial procedure.

– You will hold interviews with the suspect again, then we’ll see if we need to supplement the second hearing, he said.

can there be more perpetrators?

– We’re about to look at whether it could be several men involved in this.

what was the motive?

– it is too early to say what it might be motive. At present, we have no clear motive.

“A horrible event”

Now the prosecutor has three days in which to decide on the accused person to be remanded in custody.

It was early Wednesday morning as Lennart Source sat in his car on Ekerö when several perpetrators stopped the car.

Then they smashed the driver’s window and threatened him with a gun. According to data Aftonbladet directed the gun to his head and demanded 2.9 million crowns.

Swedish Games announces that Lennart Source taking it easy after the event, and he will not be available to the media for an indefinite period of time.

– He feels good under the circumstances, but it is obviously a horrible experience to be involved, says Andreas Jerat, press officer at the Swedish game.