Man with gun barricaded himself in an apartment – Aftonbladet

A man barricaded himself in an apartment in Satra, in the southwest of Stockholm.

He was reportedly armed and threatened to shoot police officers.

a major police operation began but when the police a few hours later, went into the apartment so it was empty.

All you found was a gun dummy.

at 9:22 this morning came an alarm to the police regarding a trespassing in an apartment in Satra. When police arrived at the scene, an apartment house in Satra, they saw a broken balcony door and heard that someone was inside the apartment.

– The person does not want us to come in without threatening the police. So we’ve taken there negotiator, says Albin Berg Birch bark on the police communications center. READ ALSO The neighbor: “Shit, it’s cops everywhere”

The apartment was empty

According to Aftonbladet should the man have threatened to shoot the police officers who first arrived on the scene.

They backed out and called for reinforcements.

an investigation into threats against officials and weapons offenses commenced and a large number of police were sent to the scene.

police negotiators then tried to establish contact with the gunman.

But when the police after several hours went into the apartment so it was empty.

– We could only to establish contact with the person at the start of the operation and it was probably then, before there were so many police on the ground that the person managed to sneak out, says Albin Birch bark Mountains.

– we are pleased that we did not come to a situation of bloodshed.

In the apartment they found a gun dummy.

“very nasty”

the man who managed to evade the apartment is still suspected of a crime and police will now continue his work elsewhere to try to arrest him.

the insert scared some residents in the area.

the police did not manage to evacuate the apartment house where the drama was going on so several people who was in the house were not allowed to leave their homes. Aftonbladet has been in contact with one of the residents.

– It’s very nasty. I can not even go out into the stairwell, said the person then.