Suspect sought in Sweden for ‘planning terrorist act’

Level four indicates a high threat with players who have the intent and means to carry out an attack.

Police said that a person, whose identity has not been released, is suspected of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism.

The alert comes as French authorities have battled it out with suspecting terrorists linked to Islamic State following attacks on Friday that killed 129 people and injured more than 300.

Denmark and Sweden on Wednesday raised their threat status by one notch to the second-highest level, citing the elevated risk of a terrorist attack after last week’s bloodshed in Paris.

Swedish security had been increased in “strategic and public places”, including foreign embassies, Reuters reported. “We don’t want to disclose our methods”, Thornberg said.

In a press conference on Wednesday (local time), Swedish officials said they had received “concrete information” that supported the need to increase the threat level. It was not clear whether the attack was planned to be carried out in Sweden.

The safety police declined to touch upon the report.

Sweden’s Security Service said the change in the threat level is based on “what is known in the present, and on possible future developments”.

“We are chose to take each motion to safe order, safety and security in our nation”, he stated.

While neutral, Sweden has participated in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation missions in Afghanistan and is now training Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga battling IS in northern Iraq.

The similar month Swedish and Danish police arrested 5 individuals for planning to assault staff of a Danish newspaper that sparked global controversy in 2005 with cartoons of Prophet Mohammad. And there are parts of Swedish society who don’t consider that jihadism is a problem here.

“But it does not work like that”.