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[mellz]

So basically earlier this week, SÄPO (Swedish Security Service) claimed, based on some very strong intel, that an IS terrorist had entered Sweden through Denmark and that he was a huge threat. They later arrested him but after interrogating him all weekeend his now clear of any suspicion.

SÄPO gave his name and picture to the police and the media published all of it, having it on top of their homepages. This guy basically has had his life ruined here. I hope he will sue the fuck out of SÄPO and all the newspapers and that there is a formal apology.

Sweden’s security service had some explaining to do on Sunday after police released the 22-year-old 'suspected terrorist' seized on Thursday night after a highly public national manhunt.

“He is no longer suspected of any crime,” Sweden's national prosecutor's office said in a press release.

Sweden's Säpo security police on Wednesday arrested Moder Mothanna Magid in absentia, charging him with planning a terror attack on Stockholm, and raising the terror threat level to “high” for the first time in the country’s history.

On Thursday, after Magid was seized in a raid on the asylum accommodation where he had been staying in northern Sweden, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven commended the security services for their quick work.

“I am impressed by the speed with which the suspect has been found and arrested,” he said.

But soon doubts began to spread in the Swedish media, after Magid's Facebook profile showed that he had made no efforts whatsoever to hide either his whereabouts or identity.

This was despite a highly public national manhunt which saw his photograph published across Sweden's national newspapers.

Deputy chief prosecutor Hans Ihrman, who is leading the investigation, told The Local he did not believe that Säpo had acted out of panic following last week's terror attacks in Paris and Mali.

"I can only underline that the initial information and the evidence which pointed against him, was sufficiently severe that, in any criminal investigation he would be in focus," he said.


"It was very concrete information and he was pointed out very clearly, rightly or wrongly, so we had to take action on this. I assume we would have done this with or without what happened in Paris."

He said that since Magid's arrest, analysis of his computer and mobile telephone, together with his own explanations over the incriminating evidence, had convinced police he was innocent, but had not been enough for them to put their investigation to rest.

"There are several circumstances we have to investigate further," he said in his press statement. "There still remain reason to believe that preparations for a terrorist crime took place".

source: http://www.thelocal.se/20151122/swedish-spooks-red-faced-as-terror-suspect-freed

 

[mcarlie]

SÄPO didn't want the information to become public though, right? Shouldn't ire be directed towards the newspapers? They had him on the lowest grade of suspicion from the start so they clearly didn't consider the evidence to be that strong to begin with.

 

[Minamu]

Yeah the papers are to blame for a lot of it. Some of them are taking the blame for it though, as they should. It's kinda weird how the biggest paper, Aftonbladet, has some editors defending it in their separate articles while others are genuinely sorry and upset with the whole journalistic profession though.