It was on April 4 that a fire started on three toilets at a high school in Malmö. The school corridors were filled with black smoke and the school had to be evacuated.
According to Sydsvenskan, a teacher was forced to jump from the second floor to get out and two others had to seek medical attention after inhaling the smoke.
No one was seriously injured, but the premises were so smoke-damaged that the school was forced to switch to distance learning. The costs are estimated to exceed five million kronor.
A police officer reacted to a loud female student seeking attention at the cordons. On surveillance footage, the same student was seen outside the toilets, and on her phone, films were found where she sets fire to a paper holder inside one of the toilets.
The motive, she states in the interrogation, was to trigger the fire alarm.
Thursdays are always such days when we finish very late, so we just wanted to skip that day and go home. But it didn't turn out so well, she says.
The student, who is of age, is now being prosecuted for arson – a crime that normally carries a prison sentence of between two and eight years.
