Terrorism in Sweden
Date Type Dead Injured Details Perpetrator
12 July 1908 Bombing 1 23 A bomb was placed on a ship housing strikebreakers during a strike at the docks in Malmö Anton Nilson
3 March 1940 Arson 5 Several An arson attack against the office of the Communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå by Right-wing extremists Right-wing extremists
15-16 September 1972 Hijacking 0 0 The Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 was hijacked by Croatian ultranationalists to force the release of seven members of their group group Ustashe imprisoned after the 1971 Yugoslav Consulate and Embassy shootings in Sweden Croatian National Resistance
24 April 1975 Bombing 4 14 Red Army Faction carried out the West German embassy siege with the goal of forcing the release of other RAF members from prison in West Germany Red Army Faction
6 September 1997 Bombings 0 0 A Right-wing anarchist was arrested after having bombed numerous sporting venues including the Stockholm Olympic Stadium Mats Hinze
August and September 1998 Bombing 0 0 Two 400 kilovolt power lines in Jämtland - two of the most important and accounting for a large part of southern Sweden 's power supply - were bombed numerous times by a group protesting the government 's parliamentary decision to allow free mountain hunting in the country Action Group Against Free Mountain Hunting
29 June 1999 Bombing 0 2 Car bomb in Nacka injured a freelance journalist and his child Right-wing extremists ( suspected )
11 December 2010 Bombing 1 2 The 2010 Stockholm bombings occurred on 11 December 2010 when two bombs exploded in central Stockholm , Sweden , killing the bomber and injuring two people . Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt and the Swedish Security Service ( SÄPO ) described the bombings as acts of terrorism . Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly , an Iraqi-born Swedish citizen , is suspected of carrying out the bombing . The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation described the event as the first suicide attack linked to Islamic terrorism in the Nordic countries Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly
11 September 2011 Assassination plot 0 0 In Gothenburg 2011 a terrorist plot was alleged to target art festival and Swedish artist Lars Vilks and thwarted by police . Four people were arrested , three charged , and all three suspects were acquitted Al-Qaeda ( suspected )
22 October 2015 Sword attack , stabbing 4 1 Trollhättan school attack : A far-right extremist attacked a school Anton Lundin Pettersson
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 Aydin Sevigin
November 2016 and January 2017 Bombing 0 1 Three people connected to the Neo-nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement committed three bomb attacks in the Gothenburg area targeting a left-wing café and two refugee centres Nordic Resistance Movement ( suspected )
7 April 2017 Truck attack 5 14 In the 2017 Stockholm attack , a self described ISIS recruit rammed a truck into a crowd in Stockholm , Sweden , resulting in five deaths . A 39-year-old rejected asylum seeker born in the Soviet Union , currently a citizen of Uzbekistan , was arrested , suspected on probable cause of terrorist crimes through murder . Contrary to popular claims , the attack has not been claimed by ISIS or any other terrorist group Rakhmat Akilov
14 August 2019 Vehicle-ramming attack 0 0 A man was arrested in central Östersund after the police received an alert about a driver who drove strange at Stortorget . The suspect is a 32-year-old man from a small town in northern Jämtland . When police arrived at the scene , a car chase was starting before the suspect drove into a concrete foundation . He was suspected of carrying out a terrorist attack by his vehicle Islamist ( suspected )
List of terrorist incidents in Sweden
Until the late 2000s, terrorism in Sweden was not seen as serious threat to the security of the state. However, there has been a rise in far right and Islamist terrorist activity in the 21st century. The Swedish government agency tasked with keeping watch over terrorism-related threats is the Swedish Security Service.