Sweden minister quits over drink-driving

Sweden’s youngest ever government minister, Aida Hadzialic, has resigned after being caught driving over the alcoholic limit. Hadzialic, 29, is minister for higher education in the centre-left government and Sweden’s first Muslim minister. She called the drink-driving incident “the greatest mistake of my life”. Hadzialic, who arrived in Sweden aged five from Bosnia-Hercegovina, drank two […]

Sweden’s youngest ever government minister, Aida Hadzialic, has resigned after being caught driving over the alcoholic limit.
Hadzialic, 29, is minister for higher education in the centre-left government and Sweden’s first Muslim minister.
She called the drink-driving incident “the greatest mistake of my life”.
Hadzialic, who arrived in Sweden aged five from Bosnia-Hercegovina, drank two glasses of wine before being stopped on the bridge linking Denmark and Sweden.
She faces a possible term of up to six months in prison after police detected a blood-alcohol level of 0.2 pro mille.
Explaining her error, she said she had drunk one glass of sparkling wine and one of red after a night out in Copenhagen.