Sweden’s security police request deportations over suspected terror links

(Local) Sweden’s security service Säpo has requested the deportation of several individuals believed to be linked to international terror organizations.

Säpo head Klas Friberg did not want to confirm the number of people concerned or to give further information about their identity, but said they were all suspected of contributing to other people choosing to travel from Sweden to join terrorist organizations abroad.

“Now we have reached a situation where we’ve been able to map different types of platforms from which people active in this environment have been able to preach about radicalization and support the use of violence to subvert society,” Friberg said, speaking to newswire TT in Gotland during the Almedalen political festival.

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