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Swedish police are investigating whether an 18-year-old man who attacked students at a high school with a sword on Friday, killing one, was involved in online communities promoting school violence, a police source said.Police are investigating whether a TikTok account that posted a picture of a sword 20 minutes before the assault belonged to the suspect, the source said.The Dagens Nyheter reported that the image appeared to have been taken in a restroom at the school.
Front, from left, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson visit a makeshift memorial in Fagersta, Sweden, on Saturday, a day after an attack carried out by a man with a sword.
Before it was taken down on Friday, the month-old account contained videos that referred to two episodes of mass violence in Sweden and to Norwegian far-right mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. One of the videos referenced a 2015 attack in which a masked swordsman killed a teaching assistant and two boys at a school in Trollhattan, Sweden, before being shot dead by police.“The investigators are looking into various online communities which might have egged on the suspect to carry out the attack,” the police source said.
