Sweden frees Iraqi arrested over terror suspicions
Police in Sweden have released without charge an Iraqi man who had recently been apprehended on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks.
Mutar Muthanna Majid, 22, who had been arrested at a center for asylum seekers in the northeastern Swedish town of Boliden on Thursday and was suspected of planning terrorist attacks, was released after being interrogated by SAPO, the Swedish Security Service, in the capital, Stockholm.
“The man is no longer a suspect,” Sweden’s deputy prosecutor Hans Ihrman said in a statement upon freeing Majid on Sunday after 60 hours of detention.
SAPO said it acted “on partial information” in arresting Majid, and later gave the all clear after investigations led to more accurate information.
Majid’s arrest came in the wake of recent deadly terrorist attacks in the French capital of Paris. Europe has been gripped by fear ever since the November 13 Paris attacks, which were claimed by Daesh and left 130 people dead and some 350 others injured. Belgium, where several of the Paris attackers hailed from, has already declared the highest terror alert level.
Sweden, also on high terror alert, has not seen a terrorist attack since December 2010, when a bomber detonated his explosives in the heart of the capital city’s shopping district, killing himself and wounding two others.
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