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AP
August 7, 2013
A prosecutor on Wednesday closed an investigation into a police shooting that triggered riots in Stockholm’s suburbs, saying no crime was committed and that the officer who shot a 69-year-old knife-wielding man acted in self-defense.
The shooting set off a week of violence in Husby and other low-income, predominantly immigrant areas of the Swedish capital in May. Youths hurled rocks at police and torched cars and buildings, resulting in 220 reported crimes and some 60 detentions.
In a report on the case, Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne said police were called to Husby because a man there had threatened a person with a large knife. When they reached the area, the man had locked himself up in his apartment together with his wife.
After several failed attempts to communicate with the man, police entered the apartment, fearing for the woman’s safety, and told the man to drop the knife. They used pepper spray, distraction grenades and fired a warning shot into the floor before an officer shot the man in the head as he launched forward in attack mode, Finne said.
Members of the organization Megafonen, which represents citizens in Stockholm’s suburbs and led the criticism against police in May, didn’t immediately respond to calls seeking a comment Wednesday.
