During New Year’s Eve, the 17-year-old girl was on Storgatan in Tranås with her friends. Suddenly, a piece of fireworks was lit, which was then thrown into the crowd.
A woman’s voice from the square shouted “watch out!” The 17-year-old realizes her sister then laid over her, crying and saying she was bleeding profusely.
The next clear memory is from inside an ambulance, the girl tells in questioning. She remembers how someone dropped something in her eyes. The 17-year-old was in pain, but mainly she was scared.
Optic nerve destroyed
In hospital, the 17-year-old was sedated and operated on. It turned out that the girl had injured herself so badly that she is at risk of going blind in one eye. The doctors have stated that the optic nerve is completely broken, as can be seen from the police’s preliminary investigation.
In the interrogation, the police asked the 17-year-old what the most annoying thing about everything that happened is.
– That I look like a zombie and that I have no vision, she replies.
The girl previously lived a very active life and exercised five to seven times a week. Right now, she can only walk on a treadmill.
Young man denies wrongdoing
A man in his 20s is suspected of having thrown the fireworks. Now he is charged with extremely serious assault and causing danger to another in two cases.
It is partly about the fact that several people could have met on New Year’s Eve, and partly about the fact that he threw a piece of fireworks into a candy shop a few days earlier. In both cases, footage from surveillance cameras is used as evidence, among other things. There are also several witnesses to what happened.
The man denies the crime and claims he was at the back of the hotel where rockets were fired. He also claims that he himself was hit by a rocket and that he was arguing with some guys who were targeting him.