It was on April 4 that a fire started on three toilets at a high school in Malmö. The school corridors were filled with black smoke and the school had to be evacuated.
According to Sydsvenskan, two teachers were forced to seek medical attention after inhaling the smoke, and several others had to escape through windows to avoid the smoke.
No one was seriously injured, but the premises were so smoke-damaged that the school was forced to switch to distance learning. The costs are estimated to exceed five million kronor, according to the newspaper.
A police officer reacted to a loud female student seeking attention at the cordons. On surveillance footage, the same student can be seen outside the toilets, and on her phone, a film was found showing her setting fire to towels in one of the toilets.
The motive, she states in the interrogation, was to trigger the fire alarm.
Thursdays are always those days when we finish really late, so we just wanted to skip the day and go home. But it didn't turn out so well, she says.
The student, who is of legal age, is now being prosecuted for arson – a crime that normally carries a prison sentence of between two and eight years.
