On December 14, 2015, the Västmanland District Court sentenced Abraham Ukbagabir to life imprisonment and deportation for the August 2015 IKEA knife attack in Västerås, which claimed two lives [1]. The court found Ukbagabir guilty of two counts of murder, rejecting claims of a serious psychiatric disorder after he confessed to the random attack motivated by a rejected residency application [1].
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Territorial Acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge that we are living and working with humility and respect on the traditional territories of the First Nations peoples of British Columbia.
We specifically acknowledge and express our gratitude to the keepers of the lands of the ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, where our main office is located.
We also recognize Métis people and Métis Chartered Communities, as well as the Inuit and urban Indigenous peoples living across the province on various traditional territories.