The incident began when the bells started ringing unexpectedly at midnight, with officials reporting that something went wrong with them. According to SVT Nyheter, Fredrik Juul described being woken up by police in the middle of the night after they received many calls about the disturbance. Unable to reach any caretakers, Juul went to the church himself to address the problem.
When manual methods failed, he went up into the bell tower and pulled the fuse to silence the bells, as reported by SVT Nyheter. Västerbottens-Kuriren was the first outlet to report on the bells ringing. The specific cause of the malfunction remains unknown, and it is unclear if authorities are investigating further or if there were prior technical issues with the church bells.
I was woken up by the police myself in the middle of the night, they had received many calls about the bells ringing.
According to SVT Nyheter, Fredrik Juul described that while the church aims for the bells to signal festive events, he apologized to those woken up by the incident.
It could not be solved the manual way so I went up into the bell tower and pulled the fuse.
Something went wrong with them.
We would like the church bells to ring so that the people of Umeå know when something festive is happening, but I take the opportunity to apologize to those who were woken up last night.