The woman is charged with two counts of breach of confidentiality.
In one case, the woman was a homicide investigator for the first time, which she told about in a chat with a sibling.
In the same chat, she shared information about who had been killed, the method behind it, and other information that she says she learned about in the media and on Flashback, but which prosecutors believe violated confidentiality.
– My thought then is that I am not writing anything that comes from the preliminary investigation, but it is information that is already out, says the woman in the district court.
In the second case, she took a photo showing that a person had been arrested. The person shared a first name with Ismail Abdo, and she then joked that it was their cousin who had been arrested.
In this case, it must have been a common foreign name and the woman believes that the name alone was not enough to identify the person behind it.
– It was a very spontaneous act, and in the background there is probably a frustration in that I would have liked to have seen him arrested.
The prosecutor requests daily fines.
Denies crime
Johan Eriksson is the woman’s defender, and says that the last few days have been “horrible” for his client, without going into more detail about her condition.
How does your client respond to these allegations?
– Simply put, she is in denial. It is even the case that we believe that one of them – given the prosecutor’s evidence – is not even criminalized. She is accused of releasing information that is completely public. So she denies that it is a crime.
How has her kinship with Ismail Abdo affected her intention to spread this information?
– Not a single minute. Because this isn’t about that at all. The prosecutor does not claim that she has spread any information in the way that has been speculated about in the media, absolutely not.
Has she been in contact with Abdo about these allegations?
– I have no idea, besides, it would be a completely private matter.
Was there anything in this information that the client shared that could have benefited Abdo?
– Absolutely not, not a single task. It’s simply not about that.