Tributes paid to youth worker, 24, shot dead at Stockholm sports hall
A 24-year-old woman who was shot and killed at a sports hall in southern Stockholm last Friday was remembered with a minute's silence on Wednesday evening.
A large crowd gathered outside the sports hall in Älvsjö to pay their respects to the 24-year-old, who worked with local children and young people.
The Hägersten-Älvsjö district administration described her as someone who wanted to make a real difference to the young people she met through her work.
"She possessed a rare warmth that spread to everyone around her and lifted the entire workplace," the district authority wrote on social media earlier this week.
Floorball and football matches were being played nearby when the shooting took place inside the Älvsjö sports centre on Friday night. The woman died from her injuries on Saturday evening.
Two boys, aged 16 and 17, have been remanded in custody on suspicion of murder. A third teenage boy was arrested on Tuesday. (TT/The Local)
Swedish vocabulary: a minute's silence – en tyst minut
Sweden issues emergency cybersecurity warning over major PHP software flaws
Swedish Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin is urging organisations to "act immediately" following the discovery of critical IT vulnerabilities that could threaten a vast number of websites globally.
The security flaws are severe and affect a very large number of organisations and websites, Bohlin noted in a written statement to news agency TT.
"The National Cybersecurity Centre has today issued an urgent security bulletin outlining recommended measures. Once a security patch is released, it becomes very easy for malicious actors to target anyone who hasn't updated in time. That is why affected organisations must act immediately," he added.
The warning concerns two critical vulnerabilities in the programming language PHP.
Sweden's National Cybersecurity Centre is calling on all organisations to update their systems straight away – or disconnect them from the internet altogether. (TT/The Local)
Swedish vocabulary: a programming language – ett programmeringsspråk
How Swedish gangs are recruiting teens for fraud
Criminal gangs are recruiting children and young people to commit fraud through online advertisements, according to the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.
Criminal networks already use various social media platforms and group chats to recruit youths for violent crimes.
Police are now raising the alarm that these gangs are also attempting to lure young people with promises of quick cash for committing fraud. The online ads can involve tasks such as buying pay-as-you-go SIM cards or allowing others to use their bank accounts.
The Swedish Police's National Operations Department (Noa) has identified more than 70 young people who replied to such adverts and indicated they were ready to take on work.
"If these youths and children go through with this, they can be prosecuted, even if they might perceive the job as something minor or harmless. Buying SIM cards or lending out your account contributes to serious crime," Johan Olsson, head of Noa, told DN.
The list of identified youths has been distributed to police regions across the country, where officers are contacting both the young people and their parents.
Olsson warns that taking on these smaller tasks can act as a stepping stone to further criminality.
"Our concern is that this leads to other tasks. When it comes to violent assignments, we've seen how young people are pressured into committing increasingly severe crimes," he told DN. (TT/The Local)
Swedish vocabulary: att lagföras – to be prosecuted / to face legal action
Real wage growth in Sweden set to slow as inflation rises
Wage increases in Sweden are expected to slow down next year as inflation ticks upward, according to the National Institute of Economic Research (NIER).
The recovery of the Swedish economy is "well advanced", NIER notes, predicting a continued bounce-back in the labour market next year, marked by falling unemployment and a higher employment rate.
"Real wages began rising again during 2025 and the first half of 2026. The main reason is that inflation has subsided while nominal wage increases have remained relatively high," NIER states in a new wage formation report.
However, higher inflation is anticipated further down the line.
"Wage growth in Sweden is expected to slow somewhat in 2027, while remaining historically high relative to the average since the financial crisis," writes NIER. (TT/The Local)
Swedish vocabulary: wage growth – löneökning