Suspected of murder in the Avesta arrested in Slovenia

– We issued a european arrest warrant and the arrested man is interviewed in Slovenia. We have since requested that he be handed over to Sweden for further investigation, said investigating authority, the prosecutor Eva Wintzell, in a press release.

It was on Sunday evening that several polispatruller participated in a major operation in the centre of Avesta. Later, it was announced that the police launched a preliminary investigation of serious crimes.

the Suspicion is that a woman has been murdered by a man she had a relationship with. The crime must have taken place during the weekend in the couple's apartment in Avesta. Any body not found, but the woman is believed to have been killed.

left the Avesta, and then took a child in the age of three.

the Man has such a relationship with the child that it not be classified as a kidnapping that he has taken with itself the child, said Tommy Lindh at the police to DN on Monday.

the Woman suspected to have been murdered has still not been found. The prosecutor's office writes in its press release that police work continues with outreach in the Avesta and analysis of the investigations that occurred at the couple's home.

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