(Politico) Outside Sweden’s national sports arena, two framed football shirts sit beneath a flag at half-mast, a memorial to the two fans killed by a terrorist in Brussels on Monday night, and a reminder to passers-by to be vigilant for follow-up attacks.
“I hope this is the last time this kind of thing happens,” said Kent Åberg, a 62-year-old airport worker who had come to pay his respects. “But I’m looking over my shoulder.”
Stockholm is on edge after the shooting deaths of two fans ahead of an international football match in Brussels between Sweden and Belgium. The Tunisian asylum seeker who pulled the trigger said in a social media post he had targeted Swedes as “revenge in the name of Muslims.” The shooter was later killed by police.
