• In mid-September, human remains are found in the Karlberg Canal in central Stockholm.
According to several media, the finds must have been made by divers who worked to clean up the canal.
This is information that the police did not want to confirm.
• The body parts were found in plastic bags that were sent for forensic examination.
• After the Forensic Medicine Agency's investigation, it could be established that the victim was a man in his 60s living in Stockholm, who had previously been reported missing:
- As there are unclear circumstances about how he died, a preliminary investigation into murder was initiated already when the finding was made, said Helena Boström Thomas, spokesperson for the Stockholm Police.
• In mid-November, several media outlets were able to report that a man had been requested to be detained, suspected of having killed the 60-year-old man.
He had then been detained in his absence for a week.
• The news agency TT reports in connection with the man being requested to be detained that several body parts have been found in various places in Stockholm.
• On Saturday, November 20, the man will be arrested, on probable cause on suspicion of murder:
- I claim that the strength of the evidence is such that for probable reasons have been achieved, says prosecutor Marina Chirakova.
• The suspect is a local politician for the Sweden Democrats in Nyköping.
Due to suspicions, the party has chosen to freeze the man's membership.
• The man disputes the arrest via his lawyer Louise Gunven.
She does not want to say what emerged from the interrogation or how the suspect reacts to the accusations.