- We do not know if it is the same perpetrator in both cases.

But this is not common and suddenly it happens in two places in half an hour so we are obviously looking at connections, says Carina Skargerlind, press spokesperson at the Stockholm Police.

The police were alerted to the attempted robbery against the first woman at 19.13.

At 19.45, the alarm came about the second robbery attempt, which occurred at a petrol station in Hammarby lake town.

In that case, the victim must have received cuts to his hands.

The text is updated.