Arrested man released after a student cruise – Aftonbladet

Police investigating a new suspected rape to have occurred at a student cruise.

The boat added in Stockholm at 18:15 on Saturday. Police had several patrols in place and could arrest a young man who got off.

Shortly after midnight he was released after a decision by prosecutors.

– The suspicions remain, but it is reasonable to believe that the weakened, says Claes Hedbom, station officer at Norrmalm police.

police investigating another rape on the Baltic Sea in connection with Silja Line student cruise, organized by the company “Fun cruises “. The boat added in Värtahamnen at 18.15 on Saturday and then there was the police on the spot and arrested a person suspected of the offense.

Young man arrested

Pontus Sandulf, officers at the police länskommunikationscentral in Stockholm, says that one person was arrested when the boat added.

– We have had engineers there to do a technical study on a place on the boat.

is it in a cab ?

– I can not answer at the moment, says Sandulf.

the young man was arrested on suspicion of rape, the lower degree of suspicion.

the alarm of the crime came from the company’s staff. Plaintiff is a woman in her 20s. She has during the evening questioned by the police.

Shortly after midnight announced Norrmalm police that the man was released. He was interrogated for several hours, but the prosecutor decided then that there is evidence to show that he will be arrested.

– The suspicions remain, but it is reasonable to believe that the weakened, says Claes Hedbom, station officer at Norrmalm police.

Former suspected gang

at the end of March there was a suspected gang rape on the Silja Line ferry arranged by the company “Fun Cruises”, also the time in a so-called student cruise. Four men have been arrested on suspicion of the crime.

In this case, all students were checked by the police before they could get off the ferry. That was not the case during Saturday’s arrest and Sandulf mean that only had two patrols in place.

Police writes on its website that they are trying to prevent crime at the student cruises, and that the shipping company deploying extra security guards, but “what happening down in the cabs are hard to foresee. “

police suspect that the real number is large in terms of sexual molestation.

Silja Line” is a social problem “

– it is extremely unfortunate, all such events in the community are despicable, says Hans Friberg, spokesperson for safety and environment on the Silja Line.

He does not want to put any blame on the shipping company says that it is about a “social problem”.

– a suspected rape is a social problem. What we do is to try to ensure that everyone has an enjoyable trip possible. It might as well be in bars of Stureplan also when done probably at a hotel near the tavern, so to speak.

So you have no guilt in this?

– no, I can not say, says Hans Friberg.