Had bomb in nut can on train - frozen

In July this year, police were alerted by the Customs staff who checked a then 18-year-old man on a train towards Stockholm. In his backpack they had found a sharpened pistol and a wrapped nut can. It turned out to be a bomb containing 1.5 kilos of explosives, complete with gunpowder with apertured explosive capsule.

The man, who has since turned 19 and lives in Södertälje, has later told the police that he was sent down by a person in Stockholm to retrieve things in Malmö but says he did not know where it was.

Co-accused is a 31-year-old Malmöbo, who according to the prosecutor has handed over the gun to the 19-year-old. He must also have transported or stored the explosive charge the same day. He is sentenced for a felony and drug offense to 1.5 years in prison.

According to the Swedish Armed Forces statement, it was a functioning, apertured explosive charge and the mode of transport is considered to have been particularly dangerous. According to them, an equivalent explosive charge of half a kilo could destroy a two-room apartment.

- Their opinion was that when packaged this way it can be equated with an ap- propriate charge. It was sensitive to impact, shock, friction and heat. In case of careless handling or an accident it could detonate, prosecutor Lotten Paulsson said when the prosecution was brought.

In recent years, several bombs built in cans have been used in Malmö, including a case on Cronman's road last spring where a man was recently sentenced to two years in prison.