It was at 15.30 on Friday that police were alerted to Svinesund's trading area in Strömstad, where a man with a knife threatened the cashier during an attempted robbery. He then left the shop with the knife in his hand.
When police patrols came to the scene to arrest him, the situation quickly became so threatening that the man was shot. None of the policemen were injured. The shot man was taken to NÄL, Norra Älvsborg County Hospital, for surgery and could only be heard today Sunday.
Then he was also served on suspicion of robbery and murder attempts on the intervening four police officers, and was arrested.