There was a hoax bomb placed outside the university system door in the centre of Gothenburg on Tuesday. This was announced by police on Wednesday. The university’s management sees the event as a threat in a double sense.
– It is a threat to our staff and through a work problems, but it is also a threat to our research here in Sweden, and in this way there will be attacks on our democracy. We see, of course, very seriously, ” says Jörgen Svensson, the university’s head of security.
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as the division for gender research suffer. According to Svensson, they have 15 people working here for a long time received large amounts of threats and attacks on social media and via e-mail.
– There is so much that they no longer can manage it, and therefore they have not reported it further. Therefore, we have in the security department have not had the same image that they have had. They would report all the time they don’t do their regular job, ” says Svensson, who appreciate that it is multiple threats every day.
He tells me that the security department received indications that even parts of the other of the university affected, and that it often involves departments which are relevant to the public debate. This will now investigate further.
in all the forces to prop up the shocked staff. Also Wednesday was devoted to crisis management.
– according to the circumstances, they feel well, at least the ones I’ve talked with, ” says Svensson, and says that Tuesday’s threats will have consequences.
“We have a high level of physical security around the university in the day, but it can involve, for example, we to a greater extent follow up the hat – and hotmejl that will,” he says.
on Tuesday’s event, when a person discovered a plastic bag with a suspicious object hanging on a front door. A large area in the district Johanneberg being blocked for several hours and around 70 people were evacuated before the national bombgruppen leaders, the suspected object.
According to the police press spokesman, His Lippens, it was a dummy that looked like a dynamitstav.
