Sweden’s security police said on Friday that an explosive device found outside the Israeli embassy is now being investigated as a ‘suspected terrorist crime.’ The live device was reported to police on Wednesday in Stockholm.

As a result of the new classification of the incident, the Swedish security police have taken over the investigation from the national police authority. The police located the live device outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm around 1 PM on Wednesday afternoon and it was promptly destroyed by the Swedish bomb squad. There were no casualties, injuries or damage to property. The Israeli ambassador to Sweden called the incident an “attempted attack” on the embassy employees. He also thanked the Swedish authorities and maintained that he will not be “intimidated by terror.”

The Swedish prosecutorial office stated that they changed the criminal classification due to the nature of the “grossly illegal threat” and “attempts to cause public destruction.” The Swedish Prime Minister, Ulf Hjalmar Kristersson, commented on Wednesday that an attack “on an embassy is an attack both on those who work there and on Sweden.” He also highlighted that police protection has heightened surveillance of both the embassy and of Jewish institutions across Sweden.

Prior to this incident, Sweden’s government had pledged 10m kronor ($1 million) last October to increase security at Jewish institutions across the country after increased antisemitism in the wake of the Israel-Hamas War. Since the beginning of the war on October 7 last year, Swedish police have received over 120 reports of antisemitic crimes since the outbreak of the war.

The attack comes just a month after an low-intensity explosion near the Israeli embassy to India last December. No one was killed in the attack in New Delhi however, the National Security Headquarters in Israel warned Israelis to reconsider all travel abroad amid the ongoing war.