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What does Sweden’s national bomb protection do?
– What they are most known for doing is retreating when there is a suspicious object in the city, if someone has found a bag or other suspicious object. Or when an explosion has happened and they get there and make sure the place is safe to work. But they also do a lot of preventative work handling potentially dangerous objects, says Amanda Lindholm.
– Many have read about bomb protection. The notices where it says the bomb shelter was called to the scene blink, but what we were interested in was what it says: what are they doing? It was also important to illuminate the wave of shelling in public places, especially in residential areas. What is behind those statistics? says Lotta Härdelin.
Why is this device so secret?
– There are people who know a lot about explosions and explosives. With the specific knowledge, they also end up in a sensitive and exposed situation, says Amanda Lindholm, and Lotta Härdelin completes:
– Of course, there is a potential threat to those who have that competence.
Why is it interesting to approach them? Lotta, in previous reports you also followed the national task force?
– An organization like the National Working Group possesses powers that, if misused, can threaten democracy. Therefore, it is interesting to know which people work there: how do they think? What are they talking about at the coffee break? What drives them, how do they reason? It prompts me to talk about the people behind the statistics and lead readers into environments that would otherwise be closed. It can be about Swedish children in a refugee camp in Syria or descriptions of places where climate change has a direct impact on people’s lives, here and now, or how climate change affects military strategies.
– But both Amanda and I work alternately with larger and longer projects and fast news jobs. It is not the case that we work with this for five months without being available for other jobs.
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