Large police operation in Boden, sweden – Göteborgs-Posten

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Sweden A larger asylboende have bombhotats in the Shed and after a large police operation the police managed to arrest two persons on the site. During the night, searched the accommodation of the police bombgrupp.

According to the police began the operation at 16 o’clock on Thursday. The area that the police was alerted to was ingenjörbataljonens old area in the Shed where a asylboende evacuated after a suspicious threats about blasting. After a while, you could also seize the two people.

the fire chief in Boden, sweden, Bengt Nilsson was the one who first stated that there was a threat of blasting of a building inside the former military area in the Shed.
– We don’t know what it is for the building or if there are people in it. We are ready at a breakpoint if necessary, a rescue operation, ” he said.

Polisinsatschefen Tomas Hedman stated for the SVT News, Norrbotten that was about a bomb threat.
– We’ve got to make the assessment to take it as a dangerous situation. We have two detainees and suspects, said Tomas Hedman to SVT.

the Swedish reporter Markus Jornevald, was in place in the Shed during the evening and told me about the chaos during the evacuation.
– I talked with a woman who lives on the property and she told me that someone came and shouted that everyone must get out of there, ” said Markus Jornevald to SVT.

“Followed by the secret service”

Simon Bynert, press officer at the security Police told me that even the Fbi became involved in the case.
– the Actual matter is with the police, so if I can not pronounce me, but we know the matter and follow it, ” says Simon Bynert.

A resident in the area told the GP about a large polispådrag in place.

” Now I’m not there for long, but I went there in hockeypausen. Quickly counted I saw between five to eight police cars and one van. Then I saw that they led out a person from the asylboendet. For a moment, then called my buddy and said they had led out, ” says the witness.

No bomb

On Friday morning could barricade around the asylboendet be lifted, reports the SVT News, Norrbotten. Police bombgrupp searched in the night for the accommodation and according to information to SVT found nothing dangerous.

yesterday afternoon, the police information about a bomb scare on the premises in which 141 persons are enrolled. The residents were evacuated and two people were arrested. The detainees are suspected of preparing to allmänfarlig destruction and interrogated in the night.