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Swedish Press Reports on Threatening Letters Purportedly from ISIS

Swedish press and other European press has reported a series of death threats purportedly from ISIS extremists posted in Swedish areas of Sigtuna, Ronneby, and Vasteras, stating that if the residents that they will decapitate ‘non-believers’ who do not convert to ISIS’s twisted views or pay a religious tax. The threat reportedly also extended to Stockholm.  The story was first reported in Sigtuna.  Then additional accounts were reported in Ronneby and Vasteras, with other reports about threats in Stockholm.

Swedish SVT News first reported the threatening letters in connection to Sigtuna, stating (translated into English): “Several residents of the municipality of Sigtuna has received threatening letters in their mailboxes. In the case of “IS-piece” which says that one should convert to Islam, pay the poll tax, or be beheaded. The police are taking seriously the threats. During Thursday received a number of accommodation of Steningehöjden distributed IS-pieces in their mailboxes. According to the police, these are two plaintiffs. But SVT Stockholm News has spoken with one of the residents in the area and according to her, there are several who received such threatening letters.”

Swedish SVT News also reported: “Police are now investigating whether there is a threat against the people who received the letters. A further letter should have been found on the ground adjacent to the residential area. We take this very seriously before we know what it is about. We have connected the Security Service in order to make an assessment, said Emil Andersson, local police chief Sigtuna.” “This is a police matter. What we have done is to send out information to management executives who in turn sent out information to principals and teachers. We want to spread this so that no one should have received a letter and then walk around and be scared. You should be able to turn to someone directly, says Anna Jernberg Carlsson, press officer for the municipality of Sigtuna.”

The original Swedish news posting can be provided at this link.

Swedish Press Reports on Threatening Letters Purportedly from ISIS

Swedish Press Reports on Threatening Letters Purportedly from ISIS

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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) stands in support of our universal human rights for all, and we stand in defiance against those, including terrorist and hate groups, which seek to attack such universal human rights, dignity, and security for all.

We cannot support human rights, if we also do not reject those who seek to rob our brothers and sisters in humanity of their lives and security, which are also our universal human rights.