To the best of our knowledge, Sweden continues to hold this father in jail. The original information we received said he'd have some sort of trial on December 10th. However, we are now learning that the trial can be held as late as December 14th or 15th and it seems this might be the case.
Sweden will NOT take Christer to trial until they have a psychiatric finding assigned to him. This is typical in child dispute cases such as these. Most parents who object to what has happened to their family are almost universally given a psychiatric diagnosis to which the socials can subsequently point claiming they were right all a long for taking and keeping the child. We've read this script over and over in many cases such as these in Sweden. You can dig through this huge pile of documented cases to learn more.
Ruby Harrold-Claesson, although one of Christer's attorneys in the EU Human Rights case, has been denied access to Christer while he is in jail. The Swedish authorities claim the EU case has nothing whatever to do with Christer's actions of two weeks ago. We, and many others, beg to differ. We believe Christer's current incarceration has everything to do with the merits of the EU case and thus, Harrold-Claesson should have access to Christer while he is jailed.
Aside from what we've shared in this post, we are not aware of any further developments at this time.
If you'd like to send notes and letters of encouragement to Christer (he is fluent in English) while he is held in prison, you can do so by following these instructions:
First, place your letter/postcard in an envelope. On that envelope write:
To Christer Johansson, 690615-3231
Next, place this envelope into another envelope and on this outer envelope write this address:
Kriminalvården
Klient och säkerhetsenheten
SE–601 80 Norrköping
SWEDEN
Once received, Kriminalvården will send your letter to Gotland and will see that it is delivered to Christer.
Annie (holds a Masters Degree in English) can be contacted at:
Annie Johansson
c/o Rune Johansson
Alva Gudings 363
623 46 Hemse
Sweden
It's pretty amazing just what people they keep in jail after having been arrested. The typical procedure is that all but the most dangerous offenders are released back into society following the initial interrogation. If a criminal might tamper with evidence against him, that's also a reason to keep him, yet the facts in this case should be completely obvious to anyone, there's nothing in the police investigation that could be potentially obstructed.
ReplyDeleteUnlike actual criminal cases, this case has the weight of the state behind it though, They never show this kind of zeal when dealing with violent crime, for example.