DR reports that videos praising the sword attack at a school in Fagersta, Sweden, have been viewed more than 684,000 times on TikTok alone.
Danish public broadcaster DR published a review of the accounts and chat groups that are celebrating Friday’s attack and the suspect. The review traced a network from TikTok to the gaming platform Roblox and on to closed groups on the messaging service Telegram.
The attack took place on August 21, 2026, at Brinellskolan, an upper secondary school in Fagersta. According to SVT Nyheter, a 17-year-old girl was killed and three teenage boys were injured, two of them seriously. SVT adds that 18-year-old Liam Nebel has been remanded in custody on probable cause suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Shortly before the attack, a TikTok profile posted an image of a sword lying on a school toilet floor, with text reading “no more edits” and a sad emoji. As reported by Omni, citing Dagens Nyheter, the post came about 20 minutes before emergency services were alerted at 2:06 p.m. The account was later taken down at the request of Swedish police.
Police are investigating whether the profile belongs to the suspect, according to Reuters. The news agency reports that the account was a month old, had more than 3,600 followers before removal, and contained videos referring to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.
Videos celebrating mass killers
DR examined the profile and its videos before it disappeared. The account operated under a pseudonym used within an online subculture that calls itself the True Crime Community, or TCC. It shared videos of Brenton Tarrant, Elliot Rodger and Anton Lundin Pettersson, who attacked a Swedish school with a helmet and sword in 2015, killing three people.
Many of the clips are what TCC users call rampage edits. According to DR’s review, they combine AI-generated images of known mass killers, described as models, with news footage of their attacks. The videos use electronic music, stabbing sounds and figures resembling a “kill score” from shooter video games.
DR found that the suspect in Fagersta has himself been turned into such a model, which appears in new videos dancing over footage of the school. One version wears a black helmet, gas mask and a T-shirt reading massacre. The pseudonym behind the investigated TikTok profile has published 91 model templates and is described in these groups as a leading figure.
Göteborgs-Posten reports that screenshots of alleged chats linked to the suspect mention revenge, but states it cannot verify their authenticity. Swedish outlet Samnytt notes that other accounts have reused material from the profile connected to the suspect.
