The police officer, who was not on duty, was drunk at the time and upset and afraid that his friend, who was unconscious as a result of intoxication, would suffer serious injuries or die, Växjö district court has concluded. The fact that he helped carry his friend to the ambulance after uttering threats to the paramedics shows, according to the court, that he was not indifferent to the risk that he would interfere with the rescue operation.
The police’s personnel responsibility committee has previously concluded that the policeman would probably have had to quit as a policeman if he had been convicted of blue light sabotage, but not for unlawful threats. The punishment will be a suspended sentence and 40 day fines, as well as that he will have to bear his own legal costs.