Friday, October 7, 2016

Threats directed against persons linked to the investigation – bbc Radio

the Police reinforce with investigators and dialogpolis from Stockholm. Torbjörn Nilsson is polisområdeschef on the island, and strongly critical of the recent events.

– this is to take the law into their own hands and try to influence the representatives of the society, or to want to administer justice themselves, there is nothing that we accept. We will never accept.

Sunday, the police was alerted about a suspected rape in central Visby. A woman in her 30s then stated that she had been raped by several men. Against the background of the woman is in a wheelchair and thus is believed to have been in a particularly vulnerable location, the designation of rape as rough. Five men were arrested later on probable grounds suspected of the crime but the evidence was not sufficient to arrest the men, according to prosecutor Mats Wihlborg.

” the Reason is quite simple, it is there that I do not believe at this stage that it reaches up to the probable reasons for this misstankegraden.

the Suspicions against the men remains, and police are awaiting the result from the technical investigation, but the decision to lift the arrest stirred up strong feelings among the residents on the island of Gotland. In the various online forums directed threats against a number of persons in the judiciary, at the same time as the suspect and another person linked to the investigation was uppsökta of the people who appeared threatening.

the Situation was the police chief Torbjörn Nilsson to ask for help and special efforts in the form of dialogpolis and investigators from Stockholm and has now travelled down to the island to assist in the investigation.

” We’ll be working with this specific problem that makes this calms down, and those individuals who have committed crimes now, we will work to prosecute.

Mikael Mellqvist juror at the Gotland district court, and he expresses great concern over what has happened with threats against persons linked to the investigation.

” this has followed the normal procedures. This is, of course, such as occurs in a big way each week in our business that people are suspected of crimes and to take certain measures such as arrest and if the suspicion is strengthened so you can arrest them and keep them detained for longer periods. But that inquiry also goes in the opposite direction to the suspicions is weakening and that people who have been detained are released it is quite normal in this business.

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