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February 2016 Bombing plot 0 0 In the 2016 Sweden terrorism plot, Aydin Sevigin was convicted of plotting to carry out an ISIS-inspired suicide bombing on Swedish soil using a homemade pressure-cooker bomb. [47] Aydin Sevigin November 2016 and January 2017 Bombing 0 1
Detonated hand grenades in Sweden 2011 – 5 December 2018 (Total: 116) [ 1] Bombings in Sweden are attacks and sabotage using explosive devices by criminals in Sweden. The weapons used are weapons such as hand grenades and explosives intended for either civilian or military use. [ 2] Legal authorities use the term allmänfarlig ödeläggelse ...
2016 Sweden terrorism plot. In February 2016 20-year old Aydin Sevigin was arrested, and in June 2016 convicted for plotting to carry out a bombing attack using a homemade pressure cooker bomb containing shrapnel. The plot was possibly ISIS -inspired.
In 2016 there were about almost 40 hand grenade attacks in Sweden. [47] 27 January, Landskrona, several cars were damaged and windows shattered after a hand grenade exploded in Tränggatan. [48] [49] 12 February, Gothenburg, two grenades exploded within nine minutes in apartments in two different locations (Lunden and Angered). [50]
The Utøya attack is the deadliest mass shooting by a lone individual in modern history. The attack was the deadliest in Norway since World War II. [20] [21] A survey found that one in four Norwegians knew someone affected. [22] The European Union, NATO and several countries expressed their support for Norway and condemned the attacks.
A blast shook the area near the finish line of the road cycling event at the 2016 Rio Olympics, prompting the bomb squad to investigate
The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September. The militants infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine others hostage, who were later killed in a failed ...
Islamic extremism. On 22 March 2016, two coordinated terrorist attacks in and close to Brussels, Belgium, were carried out by the Islamic State (IS). Two suicide bombers detonated bombs at Brussels Airport in Zaventem just outside Brussels, and one detonated a bomb on a train leaving Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station in the city's European Quarter.