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GT reported on Thursday on the serious threats that were made to Gothenburg Police and Police Chief Erik Nord on Sunday.
Between Sunday and Wednesday, when a suspect was arrested, there was increased preparation within the police due to the grave threat.
The threats reportedly involved both death threats against the police chief and threats of bombings against two police houses.
On Wednesday afternoon a man was arrested who is now suspected of serious illegal threats and serious illegal threats against an official.
GT can now reveal that it is a 25-year-old man, classified as “dangerous”, who is suspected of serious threats.
The man recently escaped from a closed forensic psychiatric ward in Falköping after being convicted for the first time last year for three arson attacks in Gothia Towers. In the media coverage, in GP and Aftonbladet, among others, he was then referred to as the “hotel arsonist”.
“The hotel arsonist”
In one day, according to the verdict, the man had started fires inside the bathrooms and in a trash can at the hotel. The sentence was probation, but that same year he was sentenced again for new crimes. This time it was a threat to city staff, as well as serious threats to the prosecutor who handled the Gothia Towers fires case.
The threat against the prosecutor was that he wrote in a police report that he would be “painfully killed, subjected to torture and that the parts of his dismembered body will be burned if he reports.”
And in an email to municipal staff, he threatened an upcoming “knife attack” in which certain municipal employees would suffer a “slow and painful death and end up in coffins.”
To this email he attached a photo of him holding a knife.
For these cases of threats to officials and abuse of justice, he was finally sentenced to closed forensic psychiatric care.
Escaped from threats
However, sometime before the threats against police in Gothenburg on Sunday, he had escaped.
According to the information, the man had been granted the alleged freedom in which he was allowed to move freely for a limited period.
Then the man escaped.
Only then, in connection with the threats against Erik Nord and the Gothenburg police, did the authorities find the trail behind him.
He was then arrested on Wednesday afternoon, at 4:45 p.m., and later.
Authorities also claim that the man also in early fall was diverted from his closed forensic psychiatric care and then stayed in the Stockholm area. According to the information, since then the Säpo has had the man under surveillance because, during that escape, he is said to have made threats against the main representatives of the government in Stockholm.
Continuous hospital care
Recently, in October, a decision was made in the administrative court that the man’s hospital care would continue.
“Given the crimes he has committed, he is dangerous to others,” the court wrote in the decision.
According to an earlier statement from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, the man grew up in a city in southern Sweden, but has some connection to Gothenburg. He lives “in apparently disorderly conditions,” according to the statement.
– He is not a dangerous person to the general public, but in light of what he has been condemned, he can be dangerous to certain government officials with whom he has come into contact in various contexts and disapproves for various reasons, says one person who has been involved. in the demands that surround man.
The Gothenburg police, through communications chief Malin Sahlström, do not want to comment on the case and refer the prosecutor. Gothenburg Police Chief Erik Nord also does not want to comment and refers to the legal process.
– You must get away with it.
Prosecutor: Suspect for probable cause
Prosecutor Anna Johansson says of the man’s background in the forensic psychiatric ward and previous cases of government threats:
– I can’t comment on that. I know that there are other cases about him as well, but there is nothing in which I am involved and that is why I cannot comment either because I only have the suspicions that there are now, where he is deprived of liberty.
However, she says that the man, according to her, is considered a suspect for probable cause, the highest degree of suspicion.
The suspicions will be tried during the arrest hearing, which is expected to take place on Saturday at the Gothenburg District Court.
GT has contacted the man’s attorney, Simon Boson, who has not yet returned with a comment.
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