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A middle aged woman with veil and handcuffs.
Now he seems to be about to pay the legal price for having traveled to Syria and joining IS.
It will still be a little over an hour before Councilor Tomas Zander declares her detained as probable cause suspected of having forced the children to marry and the woman looks around shyly.
Chamber 5, Stockholm District Court. District Attorney Reena Devgun, who works in the national unit against international and organized crime, says she cites suspicions that exist in a relatively new and rarely used law, forced marriage.
Crimes that should have been committed in Syria in 2018.
District Attorney Reena Devgun on her way to the courtroom.
A lonely reporter sitting on the bench in the audience. The only published photographer takes some photos of the prosecutor in the hall and then disappears.
News evaluation is not an exact science, recently terrorist trips dominated the public conversation but then the gangs started shooting each other and the crown made its entrance and what a year ago could have resulted in brochures and debates on television. it is now at the note level.
Councilman Zander explains that the hearing will be held behind closed doors. I’m going out.
Some craftsmen push a rolling ladder in front of them. The five meter high fire alarm on the ceiling has been replaced and the old holes will be filled and painted.
About the suspect the woman we know a lot. 48 years old, he traveled from Stockholm to Syria in 2011 with five children.
In the new country he married and had more children.
The woman was arrested and detained when she arrived in Arlanda on Monday. She had two children with her. One should stay in Syria. The rest are said to have died.
He has spent the last few weeks in a camp in Turkey.
Prosecutors have previously conducted three preliminary investigations against women who have joined the Islamic State, this is the fourth.
But much more is happening. A total of around ten investigations into war crimes and other atrocities with ties to Iraq and Syria.
And as recently as today, Interior Minister Mikael Damberg announced that Sweden supports Kurdish efforts in the region to hold accountable Swedish citizens who have been taken prisoner.
A feverish debate He has claimed that Sweden has done too little too late, certainly there are some in the allegations, but it is often forgotten that laws already exist.
Several sentences have already been handed down. Two men have been sentenced to life imprisonment in Gothenburg for murder in Iraq, for example.
But the present is restless. It is not characterized by patience with the mill of justice, which grinds slowly.
When it comes to war crimes, he is often very slow. 75 years after the end of World War II, the occasional German Nazi is still on trial.
The hearing ends in three quarters. The prosecutor comes out. It should now be discussed. Turns out, it takes time, but it’s also strange legal ground where a judge rarely moves.
After half an hour they let us in again. The last time I was in this room, it was about a policeman who, together with his wife, allegedly ran a brothel.
Councilor Zander Lee until your decision. Detention, processing must start before December 31st.
Confusion breaks out. Processing on New Years Eve? No, the day before, the 30th.
Attorney Mikael Westerlund whispers what the decision means to his client. She nods slowly.
What are you thinking right now? How does she feel? The face, which according to the poets is the mirror of the soul, is hidden behind the veil and the mouth guard.
The prison service guards brace themselves with handcuffs. The woman, dressed in the green prison outfit, spreads her hands.
We don’t know how this ends. Even a person who has supposedly joined a nasty assassin cult must be considered innocent until proven guilty. Presumption of innocence, to borrow a word that has become obsolete.
But the judiciary is acting. That’s the main. Sweden should not be a haven for war criminals. If they have murdered or forced their children to marry.
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