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Guards at the site of the Stockholm District Court on the first day of the trial against the chief lawyer.
We know that a habitual criminal was sentenced to 14 years in prison for trying to assassinate lawyer Henrik Olsson Lilja.
Today, the criminal dispute started in Stockholm City Hall over whether a high-level lawyer was renting the torpedo or not.
With a revolver in hand, the gangster searched for Olsson Lilja and outside her home in Kungsholmen one morning in September last year, they began to fight, shots were fired, an ambulance arrived, the lawyer was operated on and survived.
Was this, as prosecutor Lucas Eriksson, experienced, not infrequently involved in cases that reach the ballot, claims was the final?
Was this where all the failed attempts to clean a torpedo, the criminals had come and gone for a few years, received money and then went cold, ended?
Impressive in the 60s
For the sake of clarity, the prosecutor chose to present his alleged description of the crime with a powerpoint.
A technique that was undoubtedly impressive when the science fiction series Star Trek began to appear on television sometime in the 1960s was used to hold two screens under considerable squeaks from the ceiling.
No attempt was made to draw the curtains as it can only be said with goodwill that the November rush outside the windows contained natural light.
This is a very unusual case, criminologically and statistically speaking.
Unusual already in the sense that two out of four people who have been charged with something as serious as stigmatization and preparation for murder are women.
The two men, designated as torpedoes, are also in place, but they are not as central in context.
The case is less common also in the way in which in each case some of those involved belong or have belonged to the elite of society.
People who commit to shooting people to death are not missing in Sweden for gang killings, but neither the victims nor the alleged clients are usually found in the part of the population that has dutifully paid the defense tax.
In the coming weeks, various crimes will be tackled in Stockholm’s old security room, the room where the Laserman and Stureplan killers were unable to fight future life sentences.
Committed to the Childhood Cancer Foundation
The planning behind the assassination attempt comes later. The prosecutor proceeds chronologically and begins with some alleged attempts in 2018 to hire a shooter.
Attorney Petra Eklund takes the floor and briefly describes who the other suspect is. She has been involved in the Childhood Cancer Foundation. he volunteered with assistance in poor countries, trained as a sociologist, worked in shelters, recreation centers and with unaccompanied children.
A record reminiscent of Mother Teresa, but unlike that woman, she will never receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
She is charged with stamming murder, a crime that can result in up to 18 years in prison.
She is important to the prosecutor. There are all kinds of evidence, excerpts from the secret EncroChat chat tool that was recently decrypted by the French police and which has assisted the police authorities of several countries in important investigations, recognition videos showing how the payment in gold is delivered, sms traffic, bank statements.
But in this part of the case, it’s essentially about the woman’s story.
She voluntarily went to the police, so to speak. She basically admits all the facts, but says she didn’t understand that it would be serious.
The woman, her assistant says, was mentally depressed and drinking too much when one night at a restaurant in Stockholm in 2018, she met another lady in line to go to the bathroom.
That is, the man who in the evening press has been called the best lawyer. A somewhat correct name, despite the fact that he neglected his position in the establishment, lost his good job and fell into addictions and demons and mental illness.
There are 37 people in the room, lawyers, staff from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, Aftonbladet and Expressen. Anders Tegnell had probably had opinions.
Stories come and go, and if I have told them correctly, four torpedoes have repeatedly received offers during murky meetings in murky environments, accepted them, and then abandoned them.
Say what you like about the two ladies in the dock, but if the prosecutor is right in all he claims, they have been determined and forceful in a way that would make a young stock market shark jealous.
The rules limit me
When the court outsiders finish their speeches, the word goes to Henrik Olsson Lilja, dark gray suit, brown tie, head hooked.
The rules of the ethics of the press limit me, it is not possible to reproduce his story completely, but there has been a legal conflict between him and the main lawyer. It lasted for several years and ended with him winning in every case.
He says he has received warnings, acquaintances who have heard from him and said the woman walks and talks about contacting Hells Angels.
A situation that he is so used to in his work as a criminal lawyer, as high as a victim of a crime.
Olsson Lilja speaks in simple and effective formulations. This is a person who knows how to convey a message in court.
All the fuss, fights and paragraph mess ended with him paying the woman who supposedly obsessed with him dying over nine million crowns. There is no shortage of money in this environment.
He seems to be listening intensely, he notes.
Dark clothes, hair in a bun. She denies the allegations, and while the chain of evidence seems strong, the outcome is not certain.
When it is time for a break, the prison guards have to wait with handcuffs until the woman has put on her black coat.
This is not a man found wearing the green jail clothes.
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