Sweden probes foiled attack on Israeli embassy as potential ‘terrorist crime’
- Sweden’s national bomb squad destroyed a ‘dangerous object’ discovered on the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, which media have reported it as a hand grenade
- Swedish police said in early December they had received 120 reports of anti-Semitic crimes since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war
Sweden’s intelligence service said on Friday the investigation into a foiled attack on the Israeli embassy in Stockholm this week was being probed as a potential “terrorist crime”.
Police were called to the embassy on Wednesday after a “dangerous object” was discovered on its grounds, which the national bomb squad destroyed after determining it was “live”.
Police declined to comment on what the object was, but media have reported it was a hand grenade.
“The preliminary investigation launched by the Swedish Police Authority on January 31, following the discovery of a dangerous object at the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, has been taken over by the Swedish Security Service,” the service said in a statement.
“In connection with this, the criminal classification has been changed to a terrorist crime,” it added.
Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet said it had been thrown over the fence surrounding the mission and had landed on the ground near the building.
