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In the middle of rush hour, Brussels is shaken by two terrorist attacks. When it's all over, it turns out that several Swedes are involved, both as victims and perpetrators. Listen to all episodes in Sveriges Radio's app. The Swedish girls Jaana and My are in different places in Brussels' subway when a bomb explodes. Shortly before, another Swedish girl, Anna, found herself in the middle of another attack at the airport.In the terrorist attacks on the morning of March 22, 2016, over 300 people are injured and 32 die, two of whom are Swedes. Three coordinated explosions occur, first at the city's Zaventem airport and later at the Maalbeek subway station. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attacks.Explosions at the airport and subway create panicBut two of the terrorists never detonate their explosives and are at large. The risk of new attacks is imminent. The hunt for the perpetrators now begins, partly for the mysterious "man in the hat", and partly for a certain Naim al Hamed whose picture is spread in news channels. But it turns out to be a false identity. Behind it hides a 23-year-old Swede born in Malmö: Osama Krayem.Participants:Jaana Mettala, subway survivor.Anna Benson, airport survivor.Marika Atlegrim, mother of My who died in the subway explosion.Jan Hägglund, Marika's husband.Fredrik Meiton, Middle East researcher and investigator at the Centre against Violent Extremism.Henrik Olin, Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the National Unit for Security Cases.Caroline Van den Berghe, journalist at Belgian VRT NWS.A documentary by: Josephine Schneider.Producer: Gustav Asplund / Production Company Filt.Executive Producer: Viktor Papini.The documentary was produced in 2026.

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From 2022. The founders of the finance company Allra, Alexander Ernstberger and David Persson, are accused of pocketing Swedes' pension money. Listen to all episodes in Sveriges Radio's app. The company Allra was started in a basement in Söder, Stockholm. First, it was called "Svensk Fondservice" and quickly gained a reputation for shady sales tactics.Pension savers defrauded of over 135 million Swedish kronorBut the business grew, and soon there were almost 20 billion Swedish kronor in the company's four funds. Behind the scenes, a series of transactions involving customers' money occurred, which would have dramatic consequences – not only for those involved, but for the entire fund market and the premium pension system.The young founders Alexander Ernstberger and David Persson became known for record-expensive villas, sports cars, and helicopter rides. But then they were accused of having pocketed Swedes' pension money.Contributors:Thomas Hertz, Senior Public Prosecutor, Swedish Economic Crime Authority.Patrick Siegbahn, founder Småspararguiden.Claes Aronsson, financial reporter Ekot.Stefan Fransson Inszöl, pension saver.Anna Åkesson, Head of Unit, Pensions Agency.And trial audio.A documentary by: Hanna Malmodin.Producer: Jon Jordås.The documentary was first published in 2022.Since the documentary was made, those convicted have served their prison sentences.

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Franco Malki is the mastermind behind one of Sweden's biggest fraud rings. Now he's speaking out. Listen to all episodes in Sveriges Radio's app. On the French Riviera, a man known by many different identities moves around. Some know him as the Bulgarian businessman Stayko Donchev. He dines at the finest restaurants, receives luxury treatment at the casino in Monaco, lives in a lavish villa in Cannes, and drives around in a blue Ferrari.But his real name is Franco Malki. A guy from Rinkeby, with an extensive criminal record, who has become the mastermind behind the enormous fraud scheme Operation Casino.One of Sweden's biggest fraud ringsEverything unravels when a man is arrested at Landvetter with half a million kronor inside his jacket. This becomes the starting signal for the police's hunt for the principal suspect. The trails lead them down to the French Riviera and mysterious transactions at exclusive casinos. Participants:Franco Malki.Richard Hugosson, police officer.Jim Rugsten, customs officer.Emelie Carlström, police officer.Maja Kullinger, prosecutor.Jale Poljarevius, police officer.Thomas Bälter, prosecutor.A documentary by: Viktor Papini.Producer: Paloma Vangpreecha.The documentary was produced in 2026.

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From 2023: Young mother Agnes and her children hear the screams as the ocean liner sinks and 1500 people die in the icy sea. Listen to all episodes in Swedish Radio's app. Titanic was the world's largest passenger ship and the state-of-the-art ocean liner was claimed to be unsinkable. The majority of passengers were emigrating from Europe to the USA to create a new future for themselves, but on the ship there were also travelers from society's upper echelons. In one of the third-class cabins sit the newlywed couple Gerda and Edvard Lindell, and in another cabin deep in the ship, the 24-year-old young mother Agnes Sandström has just gotten her two small children, Margit and Beatrice, to sleep.On the journey across the Atlantic, when many on board had gone to bed, Titanic passes through what is called Iceberg Valley. There are even more icebergs than usual, but the captain expects the lookout to discover dangers in time. It is 11:39 PM when the warning comes: “iceberg, dead ahead”.In P3 Dokumentär about Titanic – the unsinkable ship, you hear the true story of the world's most famous shipwreck.Featuring: Agnes, Margit and Beatrice Sandström, Swedish passengers.Frank Prentice, worker on Titanic in an interview from BBC Archives.Carl-Olof Jansson's letter was read by Jonatan Loxdal.Director Bruce Ismay's interrogation was read by Alex Maxia.Testimony from the ship Bremen was read by Alice Edwards. Claes-Göran Wetterholm, ethnologist and author of several books about Titanic. Jessica Sanders, CEO of RMS Titanic Inc. Archival clips from: The documentary Emigrantångaren Titanic, SVT, BBC, CNN, Expressen-TV and the film Titanic.Agnes Sandström was interviewed by Per Fontander for Swedish Radio.Beatrice Sandström and Margit Sandström in interviews from SVT.In the documentary, we also tell about Gerda and Edvard Lindell, Ida and Isidor Strauss and about director and captain Edward Smith.A documentary by: Gustav Asplund.Producer: Jon Jordås, filt. Executive producer at Swedish Radio: Rosa Fernandez.The documentary was first published: 2023.

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In 2011, panic breaks out in the international art world. For four decades, Wolfgang Beltracchi has painted and sold forgeries worth hundreds of millions of kronor. Listen to all episodes in the Swedish Radio app. In the 90s, lost paintings by world-famous artists Max Ernst and Heinrich Campendonk resurface. Works that were supposed to have existed, but which no one had seen for 100 years. In reality, it is the artist Wolfgang Beltracchi who painted the works. He found a kind of blind spot in the art market by going through numerous art catalogs. Adolf Hitler did not like modern art, and thousands of works disappeared during the Nazi regime. And these are the works that Wolfgang Beltracchi paints, as if they were the genuine paintings. For nearly 40 years, Wolfgang could earn multi-million sums from his forgeries. But one day, it comes to a halt. Moderna Museet was deceived in 2008Wolfgang Beltracchi's forgeries are exhibited worldwide – even in Sweden. For the first time, Moderna Museet in Stockholm comments on the fact that they unknowingly exhibited a Max Ernst painting by Wolfgang Beltracchi. Participants:Wolfgang Beltracchi, the artist who painted the forgeries.Helena Beltracchi, Wolfgang's wife and accomplice in the forgeries. Iris Müller Westermann, senior curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm.Thomas Seydoux, former senior art expert at Christie’s auction house in London.Sofia Komarova, runs the Artvera’s gallery in Geneva, Switzerland.René Allonge, police commissioner leading the special unit for art crime in Berlin.Nicolas Eastaugh, art analyst and founder of the global art analysis center VersariK.A documentary by Alexandra SannemalmProducer: Hannah EngbergExecutive producer at Swedish Radio: Tove PalénThe documentary was produced in 2025.

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From 2018. A documentary about drugs, violence, and macho culture in what was Sweden's most dangerous city in the 90s. Listen to all episodes in Sveriges Radio's app. In the late 90s, Dalarna makes headlines across the country. Several attacks targeting the police turn out to have been carried out by a heavily armed youth gang. Here, several members of 'The Family' tell for the first time about the period when they terrorized Borlänge.Eddy and Lenny become best friends in Borlänge's skate park when they are in middle school. A few years later, Eddy, with a buzz cut and bling in his left ear, puts on a balaclava. With a shotgun in hand, he enters the grocery store in his neighborhood.The series was originally made in five parts, but is published here as a super episode, 130 minutes long.A documentary by: Sigge Dabrowski.Producer: Rosa Fernandez.The documentary was first published in 2018.

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Inventor Peter Madsen invites journalist Kim Wall on a trip in his self-built submarine. She is going to do an interview but never comes home. Listen to all episodes in Sveriges Radio's app. In 2017, a space race is underway in Denmark. Two competing amateur space societies want to be the first to launch a privately built rocket above the Earth's atmosphere. Journalist Kim Wall is working on an article about the unusual competition. She is invited aboard inventor Peter Madsen's self-built submarine to interview him there. But the submarine disappears from radar, and when it resurfaces, only the inventor remains onboard. Peter Madsen says he dropped Kim off the same evening they went out, but the police believe he is lying. Kim is not on board the submarineDays pass and Kim is gone without a trace. The media follows the case closely, and for Kim's family, the situation is unbearable. – When I last spoke to Kim, there was no talk about any damn submarine, it wasn't even on the map. It feels like a strange fever dream, says Kim's younger brother Tom.Participants:Ingrid Wall, Kim's mother.Tom Wall, Kim's brother.Jens Møller Jensen, then head of the Copenhagen Police Homicide Department.Jakob Buch-Jepsen, then special prosecutor at the department for violent crimes within the Copenhagen Police.Emma Sullivan, documentary filmmaker who followed Peter Madsen's work on the space race at the time of the murder.Viola Gad, Kim's friend and classmate at the journalism program at the University of Columbia.Johan Esbjörnsson, police officer and dog handler who, together with the dog Ben, searched for Kim's body parts.A documentary by Ida Lundqvist.Producer: Tove Palén.The documentary is produced in 2025.

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From 2019: In December 2010, the first suicide attack on Swedish soil takes place. Afterwards, a terror investigation follows, which will last for almost four years. Listen to all episodes in Sveriges Radio's app. It's only a few weeks until Christmas and the city is full of people when 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab from Tranås walks back and forth on Drottninggatan in Stockholm. He is carrying several kilograms of explosives.First, his car, parked on Olof Palmes gata, explodes. Just minutes later, another explosion occurs on Bryggargatan, a few meters from the Christmas shoppers on Drottninggatan.It soon becomes clear that a suicide bomber has struck in Sweden for the first time ever. The attack becomes a major news story in Sweden and internationally. Afterwards, a terror investigation follows, which will last for almost four years. The big question: was Taimour Abdulwahab a lone perpetrator or an organized terrorist?Participants:Hanna Svanström - witness. Agnetha Hilding Qvarnström - deputy chief prosecutor in the case. Magnus Ranstorp - terror expert and research director at the Swedish Defence University.Peter Wixtröm - photographer Aftonbladet.Viktor - first police on scene.Ann Lund - witness on Bryggargatan.Per-Anders Palmér - Taimour Abdulwahab's teacher.Eddie Davidsson - Taimour Abdulwahab's colleague and friend.Gurwinder Bhogal - journalist who has studied Islamist groups in Luton.Farasat Latif - secretary at the Luton Islamic Centre mosque.A documentary by: Sara Olsson.Producer: Roger Dackegård, production company Filt.Executive producer: Jon Jordås.The documentary was first published in 2019.

How does one tell about the terrible crime that Kim Wall was subjected to in a submarine outside Copenhagen? Listen to all episodes in Sveriges Radio's app. Reporter Ida Lunqvist asked herself that question before working on this episode.In the documentary, we hear Kim's family talk about Kim as a daughter, sister, and journalist, but also about the agonizing days in August 2017 when Kim disappeared after a trip in a submarine. A trip she would never return home from.You can now listen to the documentary about the murder of Kim Wall in Sveriges Radio's app.If you follow P3 Dokumentär in Sveriges Radio's app, you will receive notifications when we release new episodes, and they are always released first by Sveriges Radio. The app also contains the entire catalog – so whether you want to listen to the latest episode or catch up, feel free to listen there.

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The CIA is running a top-secret brainwashing project involving drugs, torture, and Nazi doctors. It's the 50s, and 16-year-old Lana is secretly being medicated with LSD. Listen to all episodes in Sveriges Radio's app. After running away from home, sixteen-year-old Lana Ponting is placed in a mental hospital in Montreal. There, she is prescribed sedatives and sleeping pills, while also being forced to listen to cassette tapes with recorded messages, over and over again. After being drugged with the psychedelic drug LSD, Lana can no longer distinguish dream from reality. Much later, Lana finds out who was behind the controversial treatment.– *I was just screaming because LSD have a very, very bad effect on your mind,* says Lana.Experiments with psychedelic drugs on unsuspecting peopleDuring the 1950s, the American intelligence agency, the CIA, is searching for a means of brainwashing – a truth serum, or a substance that can control people's thoughts. The project is called MK-Ultra and is led by a group of chemists who stop at nothing. LSD is tested on prisoners in jails, captured spies, students – and sex buyers in brothels, operated under the CIA's direction. One day, CIA researcher Frank Olson is found dead outside a hotel in Manhattan – but it will take many years before his family understands what happened.Participants:Lana Ponting, subjected to LSD experiments at a mental hospital in Montreal.Henry William Wall, son of a prisoner who was drugged with LSD.Leonidas Aretakis, author and opinion leader who wrote the book "Ecstasy in the People's Home".Stephen Kinzer, journalist who wrote the book "Poisoner in Chief".Egmont Koch, German journalist who investigated MK-Ultra.Sara Stenholm, host of the USA podcast.A documentary by: Axel Winqvist.Producer: Rosa Fernández.The documentary was produced in 2025.