Teenager Sentenced for Farsta Bombing and Other Crimes

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Teenager Sentenced for Farsta Bombing and Other Crimes
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A 17-year-old boy is sentenced after a powerful bombing at an apartment building in Farsta in southern Stockholm earlier this year, reports SVT News Stockholm.

The 17-year-old is sentenced, among other things, for attempted murder, as a resident in the stairwell where the explosive charge detonated in the evening of January 23 was seriously injured. He is also sentenced for a bombing in Bandhagen in southern Stockholm and for a serious arson at Kungens kurva in Huddinge. The sentence will be closed youth care for two years and eight months.

A woman in her 40s is also sentenced for aiding and abetting several of the crimes, to prison for five years and six months.

In the same case, a 20-year-old man is sentenced to prison for six years and six months for involvement in an explosion in Nynäshamn, according to SVT.

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