Today, a lawsuit is filed for grossly causing the death of another, several cases of grossly causing bodily harm and causing danger to another after the accident at Gröna Lund last summer.
The prosecutor is demanding corporate fines totaling 18 million for Gröna Lund and two other companies.
– If the companies had followed the rules, this would not have happened, says senior prosecutor Christer B. Jarlås at the National Unit for Environmental and Work Environment Cases.
The prosecutor is today bringing an action for grossly causing the death of another, several cases of grossly causing bodily harm and causing danger to another after the accident at Gröna Lund. The prosecutor is demanding corporate fines totaling 18 million for Gröna Lund and two other companies. The prosecutor believes that through their actions the companies have shown gross negligence, alternatively negligence.
The company fines are among the highest ever in Sweden. Gröna Lund is required for SEK 12 million and the other two companies for SEK 3 million each.
– In funfair devices, all parts must be safe and there is a clear set of regulations with Swedish standards to follow. If the companies had followed the rules, this would not have happened, says senior prosecutor Christer B. Jarlås at the National Unit for Environmental and Work Environment Cases.
The prosecutor: Probably discovered the defects during the inspection
The accident, in which one woman died and several others were injured, occurred when one of the front support arms broke on the derailed Jetline roller coaster. The preliminary investigation consists of, among other things, material analyses, technical investigations and interrogations.
– If you manufacture a product, such as the front suspension arms, they must be safe. Had a prescribed revision inspection of the newly manufactured support arms been carried out before assembly, the defects would with a high degree of probability have been discovered. In addition, tests of Jetline’s safety bars show that they failed to protect adults and instead caused injuries, says Christer B. Jarlås.
The prosecutor believes that no structured check was carried out when the support arms were received by Gräna Lund in 2020. There must then be damage to one of the front support arms.
The companies deny the allegations
Gröna Lund denies the accusations. So do the two other companies that were involved in the manufacture of the support arm.
“We do not believe that any crime has been committed within the scope of Gröna Lund’s operations and therefore we deny the accusations. But we take the incident very seriously,” the park writes in a written comment to TT.
At the moment, it is not clear when the main hearing will take place in the district court.