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7 unusual facts about Expressen


Eddie Meduza

He often got bad reviews from the press, notably Expressen journalist Mats Olsson, to which Norstedt replied by writing even more offensive songs, such as Kuken står på Mats Olsson (Mats Olsson has a hard-on), Mats Olsson är en jävla bög (Mats Olsson is a damn fag) and Mats Olsson runkar kuken (Mats Olsson is wanking his cock).

Expressen

A main feature that day was an interview with the crew members of a British bomber who were successful in sinking the German ship Tirpitz.

Ownership of Expressen (and Sweden's largest morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter) is controlled by the Bonnier family, while Aftonbladet is owned jointly by Swedish trade unions and the Norwegian publishing family Schibsted.

Nicklas Lidström

The night before, he told the Swedish tabloid Expressen, "I came to the decision last week and I informed our general manager Ken Holland".

Opportunity Nox

Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen both gave the song 4 stars and called it their best song since "Dangerous" and "Joyride" respectively.

Swimming in Sweden

The first time it was held was in Gävle in xxxx after an initiative by NN from the Swedish tabloid Expressen.

Tommy Salo

On December 9, 2006, in an interview with Swedish newspaper Expressen, Salo announced that he would retire from hockey after the 2006-07 season.


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Disqus

Co-operating with the Bonnier newspaper Expressen, they subsequently visited some of the commentators in their homes, confronting them with allegedly racist, misogynic and derogatory sentiments.

Ebbe Carlsson affair

The affair came to public knowledge on 1 June 1988, when the evening newspaper Expressen revealed that Ebbe Carlsson, a journalist and publisher and former secretary at the Swedish Government, was carrying out an independent and illegal investigation into the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme, secretly supported by the minister for justice Anna-Greta Leijon.

Mahmoud Aldebe

In an article published in Expressen on 3 October 2005, Swedish Imam and Muslim convert Abd al Haqq Kielan wrote that Aldebe had approached him and said to him that he was "a Jew who has converted to Islam to destroy for the Muslims" and that he had also called him "Shayṭān" (Satan).

Sing Along

When Expressen's Andreas Nunstedt reviewed the Party Crasher album he noted that «Helena Josefsson, who sang like a British nightingale from the '60s on Son Of A Plumber, is prominent. Power ballad à la Joyride».

Swedish general election, 2006, computer infringement affair

Per Jodenius contacts Niklas Svensson on Expressen who does not reveal the story, but uses the log-in himself instead.

TV4 Sport

The deal meant that Sport-Expressen could use several sports rights held by TV4, including reruns of games from the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Vesna Vulović

On the morning of 27 January 1972, an anonymous man called the newspaper Kvällsposten published in Malmö, Sweden, claiming, in broken Swedish, that he was a Croat and member of a nationalist group that placed the bomb on the plane.


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