{"id":26438,"date":"2017-04-10T05:23:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T05:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=26438"},"modified":"2017-04-10T05:23:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T05:23:49","slug":"stockholm-attack-suspect-uzbek-denied-residency-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/stockholm-attack-suspect-uzbek-denied-residency-sweden.html","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm attack suspect is Uzbek denied residency in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tStockholm attack suspect is Uzbek denied residency in Sweden:- The arrested man suspected by police of killing four people by ramming a truck into crowds in Stockholm is a 39-year-old from Uzbekistan who had been denied permanent residency in Sweden and who had expressed sympathy for Islamic State.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo sources who had worked with the suspect, Rakhmat Akilov, independently identified him to Reuters from images distributed by police as the manhunt got underway on Friday.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo police spokespersons declined to confirm his identity as did the suspect's court-appointed lawyer.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA former co-worker of Akilov contacted by Reuters said Akilov had never expressed any religious views and also said that the man he shared a flat with near Stockholm was said to be "devastated" to hear Akilov may be responsible for the attack.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAkilov was detained at around 9 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Friday in a northern Stockholm suburb hours after police say he hijacked a truck and plowed through a pedestrian shopping street in central Stockholm, killing four and injuring 15.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPolice said he had previously turned up in information gathered by Swedish security services. "He was a marginal character," said Sweden's national police chief Dan Eliasson. He did not figure in any of their investigations immediately prior to the attack. <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPolice have also said the suspect had shown sympathies for extremist organizations, including Islamic State and that he was wanted for failing to comply with a deportation order after his application for residency was denied.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAkilov's former co-worker, who had worked with him at a construction company in Sweden and did not wish to be named, said Akilov was a father who sent money home to a wife and several children living in Uzbekistan.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSwedish Security Police spokesman Simon Bynert said the suspect had been involved in an asylum process in Sweden, but that the security police had not been part of it.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAkilov's Facebook page shows he was following a group called "Friends of Libya and Syria", dedicated to exposing "terrorism of the imperialistic financial capitals" of the United States, Britain and Arab "dictatorships".<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe page features two videos, one on the double standards on what constitutes terror and how Muslims are victimized, and the other about a man with his family in the Iraqi city of Mosul calling others to join radical group Islamic State.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHis Facebook page showed he also liked Playboy magazine and Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova. The page suddenly became unavailable on Saturday. "Sorry, this content isn't available at the moment," a message said.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAkilov worked at the construction company for a few months last year.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"He never expressed any radical or religious views. He was like any normal guy," the former co-worker at the company told Reuters.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe said that Akilov's flatmate in Varberg, south of Stockholm, was devastated and moved out as soon as he heard reports Akilov may have been involved in the attack.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAkilov — or someone with the same name — appears to be listed as living at another address in the northern Stockholm suburb of Hjulsta. No one replied to enquiries at that address when a Reuters reporter visited the low-rise red building with white balconies overlooking a children's playground.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAkilov was also following a group on Facebook calling for the removal of former Uzbek president Islam Karimov, who died last September, as well as a group giving information on how to emigrate to the United States and Canada.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAkilov's Facebook page listed him as born in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, the central Asian country's second-largest city and one of the main stops on the ancient Silk Route.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe top picture on Akilov's Facebook page showed the Sher-Dor Madrasa in Samarkand's Registan Square.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSource:- http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/r-stockholm-attack-suspect-is-uzbek-denied-residency-in-sweden-2017-4?IR=T<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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