A woman was assaulted and robbed with pepper spray at Stockholm Arlanda Airport on Thursday, bringing a form of street-level violence common in other parts of Sweden into the country’s main international gateway. The incident raises questions about whether transport hubs are becoming more attractive targets for offenders looking for travelers, luggage and easily resold valuables.

Proceedings began in the South Savo District Court over the deaths of a 20-year-old mother and her three young sons in Savonlinna. A 23-year-old father is charged with four murders and aggravated arson in one of Finland’s bleakest recent family killing cases.

A 33-year-old man was taken to a trauma unit after a stabbing on Nørrebro in Copenhagen on Wednesday evening. He is out of danger, but police had made no arrests by Thursday, leaving another violent street attack in the capital without an identified suspect.

A 43-year-old man in Turku has confessed to killing an acquaintance with a hammer in the Varissuo district, with the body found on a balcony more than two months later. The gap between the killing and the discovery has turned a local homicide into a harder question about how a violent death remained unseen in an ordinary apartment block.

A woman was arrested in Linköping after a suspected attempted murder in which a man was injured, according to Aftonbladet. Police have not yet said what relationship, if any, existed between the two or whether the case is linked to gang or domestic violence.

An explosion damaged a villa in Nykvarn, south of Stockholm, on Monday, with no injuries reported. The incident has drawn immediate police attention because blasts in Swedish residential areas now sit inside a wider pattern of criminal violence, even when the first facts are sparse.

A young man and a young woman have been charged after 13 separate fire incidents at the University of Oslo and nearby Forskningsparken in western Oslo. The case places a run of small fires inside one of Norway’s busiest research and education districts under a single police investigation.

Police in eastern Finland are investigating an alleged attempted murder after a black BMW reportedly struck a 17-year-old scooter rider in Kuopio’s Petonen district on Saturday afternoon. The teenager was seriously injured, and police are asking for public tips about the car’s movements and other dangerous situations it may have caused.

Police in Helsingborg are investigating an incident in which a man in his 60s is reported to have struck a 13-year-old boy and spat on the boy’s mother. The case is small in scale and ordinary in form, the sort of confrontation that determines whether families feel a street, square or bus stop still belongs to the public.

A police patrol lowering the Swedish flag outside the police station in Eslöv late on National Day was targeted with a rocket, according to Aftonbladet. The officers were not physically injured, but the incident pushed a routine ceremonial task into the same category as the street-level harassment Swedish police increasingly face.

A taxi driver in Drammen was allegedly beaten repeatedly after asking a passenger to pay, according to Nettavisen. The case is small on its face, but it sits inside a larger stream of assaults and threats directed at workers who collect money alone, at night, and in public.

Police in Trøndelag are investigating whether several people in the local drug scene have been exploited through human trafficking, with Swedish gang criminals now among those under suspicion. The case brings a familiar border problem into a Norwegian region where addiction, street disorder and weak social control leave victims easy to use and hard to identify.

A man was assaulted in Skellefteå on Thursday evening and taken to hospital, with police later treating the case as attempted murder. The incident adds to scrutiny of safety in one of Sweden’s fastest-growing municipalities, where housing pressure and stretched services have altered the tempo of daily life.

A man is suspected of assaulting two women in Mariestad, and police have also opened a child welfare offence case after the alleged violence took place in front of children. The case turns a domestic conflict into three separate suspected offences in a small municipality where such incidents quickly move from private address to public emergency response.

Police in Halmstad are investigating a suspected attempted murder after a violent incident that led to one man being arrested. The case adds another serious assault to the steady flow of public-order cases confronting Swedish police outside the major capitals.

A fight broke out during a student party at a nightclub in central Stockholm overnight, and police have opened a case on suspicion of assault. The incident adds another small but familiar entry to the city centre’s weekend disorder log, where alcohol, queues and crowded venues regularly spill onto police radios.

Several shots were fired through the window of a ground-floor apartment on Frederiksberg in Copenhagen while residents were inside, but no one was hit. The episode puts attention on a form of gun violence that often functions as a warning before it becomes a settled feature of urban gang conflict.

Police launched a large operation in Hässelby Villastad in western Stockholm after a suspected shooting, with the case classified as attempted murder. The incident adds another suburban address to a city map where residents increasingly pay for disorder with alarms, detours and closed shops.

A couple were robbed and assaulted in their home in Västra Frölunda late at night, and police have arrested four suspects. The case turns a routine promise of public safety into a narrower question: how much protection reaches the apartment door in one of Gothenburg’s major outer districts.

A 26-year-old man has been charged with murdering an elderly man near Malminkartano railway station in Helsinki, after what investigators describe as a knife attack with no established motive. The case moves a local killing into a broader test of how safe ordinary commuter districts remain after dark.

Two people were injured in a serious violent incident in Kungälv north of Gothenburg, according to Svenska Dagbladet. Police have confirmed a major response but have not yet said what weapon was used or whether the case is tied to gang conflict, a personal dispute, or another motive.

Police in Helsinki suspect a 17-year-old of stabbing a young adult in Kaivopuisto, a central waterfront park better known for picnics and summer crowds than violent assaults. The case adds another knife incident to the capital’s running count of youth violence in public space.

One person was injured in Porsgrunn on Sunday in what police describe as a probable violent assault. The case is still thin on public detail, but it adds to a steady run of police incidents in Norwegian towns well outside the capital.

A 92-year-old woman was pushed into her home and held down during a robbery in Virum, north of Copenhagen. The case places a violent edge on a crime category that already carries a different weight from ordinary burglary: the victim was home, and old enough to be physically overpowered within seconds.

A man was found injured in a stairwell in Ronneby early on Friday, and Swedish police are treating the case as a suspected attempted murder. The victim was taken to hospital after what officers believe was an assault involving a sharp object.