(Stockholm) The Swedish Security Service, Säpo, have confirmed that they are investigating a threatening chain of message that is being spread on social media, regards an imminent attack on the Swedish capital. However they have denied reports in the media that they have formally stepped up their level of security. Säpo's head of communications Nina Odermalm Schei
"We have an intensive flow of intelligence and receive threats similar to this one every other day or so. The difference in this case is that the threat is being spread on social media. Our job is then to find out what there is to it,"
Local newspaper Aftonbladet reports that the threat is aimed at central
parts of Stockholm. It is understood that the threat does not contain any
concrete information, Sweden's national
terror threat level remains at "three" on a scale from one to five
where five is the most serious.
