54-year-old had a bomb factory in the attack house - sentenced

In February of this year, the police searched a suspected house in a residential area south of Uppsala. In the cottage there is a small bomb factory. Here, several different purposeful tools with stubby wire, pyrotechnic mixtures and huge quantities of empty firework pieces are crowded. Outside the house are several sturdy wooden boxes with fireworks.

The cabin's owner, a 54-year-old man, is arrested. The suspicion is that he has built several thermos bombs.

The explosive charges are relatively simple designs. The 54-year-old has bought cheap thermoses at Rusta, for example, and then filled them with pyrotechnics - a powder mixture with oxidizers and fuel as the main ingredients - from the fireworks. At the same time, the charges are powerful and the police's investigation shows that they were used in at least one bombing.

On December 31, 2025, an explosive charge explodes at the gate of an apartment building in Västerås. DNA from the 54-year-old is found on the torn thermos and a piece of electrical tape.

A few weeks later, two bombs that the 54-year-old had made were found in Märsta. They lie wrapped in a towel in a bicycle shed in an apartment building. Some time later, a minor is stopped in Farsta. One of the man's explosive charges then falls out of the youth's jacket.

The man has consistently denied any wrongdoing. When the police asked questions about his bomb-building in interrogation, he said he was shocked by the accusations. According to the 54-year-old, he is innocent.

- I think it's that someone is trying to blame me for something I haven't done. It is quite serious. Or how? he says in an interrogation.

The police ask the man why anyone would want to put him there.

- I don't know that. That's what I'm trying to get help with. I say I'm a victim huh, the man replies.

In another of the many interrogations, he accuses the police of wanting to frame him.

Now the 54-year-old is being sentenced, among other things, for violating the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods, a serious crime. The penalty is five years and six months in prison.

The 54-year-old was also charged with involvement in a bombing in Uppland's Väsby. Since the police found a vinyl glove with his DNA on it near the detonation site, it was suspected that this explosive device was also made by the man. The man is acquitted of that charge because the court does not consider that the connection is strong enough to tie him to the bomb.

No motive for the man's bomb-making has been clarified, but he himself has said that he has debts of close to three million kroner since he was subjected to blackmail. He has not wanted to go into more detail about who or who have pressured him for money.