The child was taken to the hospital for drug testing after tasting the substances. The family called the poison information center and was recommended to go for testing, and the children were taken to the emergency room and had to stay until the drug tests came back negative. Hospital staff believe the children were not affected because preschool teachers thoroughly rinsed their mouths immediately after the incident.
The principal later called and said the police had rapid-tested the substance, and it tested positive for three different types of drugs. According to Aftonbladet, the father described the drugs as being in small bags that had solidified into large lumps, and he noted that the preschool staff were alarmed when he arrived to pick up his child. In a related incident, the father's seven-year-old son's football friends were approached by a gang of teenage boys at Stuvsta IP over the weekend, which Mitt i also reported on.
It could have gone as badly as possible.
Police suspect this is gang recruitment, as the gang allegedly gave the children money and promised them gifts in exchange for their phone numbers. Separately, the principal at Von Bahr's preschool in Uppsala sent an email to guardians on Thursday informing them that preschool children had found drugs on the preschool's playground for the second time. The first discovery occurred on March 12, when drugs were found outdoors buried under leaves in the soil during lunchtime, and the second happened exactly two weeks later.
They were small drug bags so I thought it could probably be drugs. It wasn't classic white powder but had more solidified into large lumps.
We all went to the emergency room and the children had to sit in the same room to do drug tests, pee basically. Then they had to stay the whole evening until it came back negative.
It was lucky that it tasted so bad. If it had been tasty they would have eaten the whole thing. It's insane.
What the police have said is that recruitment is creeping down in ages because the penalty scale has dropped in ages.
You can sit in your room and think that drugs don't affect me. But now it's so clear that our children are being affected. It feels really messy.