Stockholm Suspect Was Denied Asylum and Told to Leave in ’16<br />By CHRISTINA ANDERSONAPRIL 9, 2017<br />STOCKHOLM — The Uzbek man arrested in the terrorism rampage in central Stockholm last week was an asylum seeker whose application was rejected<br />and who in December was given four weeks to leave the country, the Swedish police said on Sunday.<br />" he said. that Given the information that the Swedish Security Service has been providing in recent years, there<br />are a couple of hundred people in Sweden who have the capability and the will to carry out these type of attacks,<br />Ygeman said that We have taken the first step, criminalizing traveling to<br />and fighting with a terrorist organization in another country or receiving terrorist training,<br />The assault, in a city known for its tolerance and openness, came after the Swedish Security Service, or Sapo, warned in March in its annual security report<br />that a terrorist acting alone was likely to attack somewhere in the country within a year.<br />Sapo said that Unfortunately, this type of low-tech attack is something we have been discussing for years,<br />The police tried to find him in February of this year to execute the exit order,<br />but he had gone underground, becoming a wanted man, Jonas Hysing, the national strategic commander, said at a news conference on Sunday at the Stockholm police headquarters.<br />Sweden wrote that There are no words for how missed he will be or for how sad we all are to have lost him like this,
