Sweden: TikTok 'star' who admired murderers stormed school with sword and killed 17-year-old girl
The 18-year-old who two days ago donned a helmet and went on a stabbing spree north of Stockholm ran a TikTok account where he posted videos saluting mass murderers like Anders Breivik and perpetrators of…
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An 18-year-old in Sweden carried out a sword attack at a school north of Stockholm, killing a 17-year-old girl. His TikTok account glorified mass murderers like Anders Breivik and school shooting perpetrators. Twenty minutes before the attack, he posted a photo of the sword in a guitar case inside the school bathroom and signed off with a sad emoji. The case raises urgent questions about how platforms handle content that celebrates violence and whether warning signs from such accounts are being missed.