Many questions remain unanswered about the murders in Örebro. Sven Granath, who researches at Stockholm University, emphasizes that the public now needs objective information as soon as it becomes available.
One needs to see that this can be handled by society. That the justice system does it the right way, he says.
And it's important that those responsible don't try to score political points or engage in ideological mudslinging.
Can get a stamp
The most important thing right now is that what happened is investigated as far as possible. The police need to find out if there are more perpetrators, if the perpetrator had a license for the weapons used, how he got them, and, of course, what the motive was.
The incident must be cleared up. The Palme murder is a trauma for many Swedes since it is still unsolved, notes Granath.
It was good that the police held an early press conference, even though they couldn't say much then.
The mass murder at Campus Risbergska in Örebro will be written into the history books alongside Mattias Flink's mass shooting, the school attack in Trollhättan, and the terrorist attack on Drottninggatan, suggests Sven Granath. And psychologically, such events often become stuck to a place's name.
Sturecompagniet, for example, was long associated with a great darkness after the shootings there in 1994. For the people of Örebro, it will eventually be important to see that life goes on at the school, so that the stamp can be washed away.
"Monstrous act"
Before that, however, enormous efforts will be required for both the victims and their relatives, notes Björn Berglund, operations manager for the exit program at Fryshuset.
What has happened is terrible. A monstrous act, he says to TT.
This is extremely traumatizing events that will require large support efforts from society. Lives have been destroyed.
Some of the worst and most notable mass shootings and violent crimes in Sweden since World War II.
February 4, 2025:
About ten people are killed in a school shooting at Campus Risbergska in Örebro. One of the dead is believed to be the suspected perpetrator.
The night of August 22, 1952:
The 27-year-old police officer Tore Hedin kills nine people in Hurva, Skåne; first his parents, then seven people at an old-age home.
The night of June 11, 1994:
Lieutenant Mattias Flink kills seven people in Sweden's worst mass shooting to date. After a quarrel with his girlfriend, Flink shoots seven people and injures three near Dalregementet in Falun.
December 4, 1994:
Tommy Zethraeus and Guillermo Márquez Jara are denied entry to the nightclub Sturecompagniet in Stockholm and retrieve weapons with which they open fire at the entrance. A bouncer and three guests are killed.
October 22, 2015:
A 21-year-old man walks around the school Kronan in Trollhättan with a sword. Three people die from stab wounds, and the perpetrator, who came from Trollhättan and had right-wing extremist sympathies, is shot by the police.
