Swedish police are investigating whether an 18-year-old who attacked students with a sword at a high school in the country yesterday, killing a teenage girl, had been a member of online communities that promote school violence, according to a police source cited by the Athens News Agency. The perpetrator attacked a school in the city of Fagersta, in central Sweden, also injuring two teenagers before being arrested by the police. The parents of a 17-year-old girl told the local newspaper Fagersta-Posten that their daughter was killed in the attack.
Police are investigating whether a TikTok account, where a photo of a sword was posted 20 minutes before the attack, belonged to the suspect, the source told Reuters. According to the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, the photo appears to have been taken from a restroom at the school.
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The suspect allegedly posted a photo of a sword in the school restrooms on TikTok before the attack. pic.twitter.com/rj13MiP3CB
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Before the account—which had been created just one month earlier—was deleted yesterday, it contained videos referencing two mass-violence attacks in Sweden, as well as the Norwegian far-right mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. There was also a reference to a 2015 attack in which a masked man, armed with a sword, killed a teacher and two boys at a school in Trollhättan, in western Sweden, before being shot dead by police.
“Investigators are looking into various online communities that may have encouraged the suspect to carry out the attack,” the police source noted. Today, prosecutors ordered the man’s pretrial detention on charges of murder and attempted murder. “The investigation is proceeding at a rapid pace. We are taking statements and gathering information, but I cannot comment in more detail,” prosecutor Ann Sophie Trossing told Reuters.
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