Former intelligence chief Linda Staaf breaks the silence after Mats Löfving’s death. In an interview with Medierna i P1, she criticizes the media’s coverage. – My credentials and my skills were actually taken away from me in the public domain, she says. For the first time since the death of regional police chief Mats Löfving, Linda Staaf, former head of intelligence for the police’s national operational department, Noa, has now spoken about how she experienced the media’s coverage of the tours surrounding her and Mats Löfving’s previous relationship. – I feel that the media’s reporting has been person-focused and unvarnished, she says in an interview with Medierna i P1. She also says that her experience was that the media portrayed her as “the wrong person in the wrong place” and that her credentials were questioned. – There are different parts I am critical of. One thing, of course, is my credentials and my skills, which were actually taken away from me in the public domain. Another thing is past depictions of my private life and it even involves information that I myself have not experienced or been involved in, she says in the interview. “Deeply tragic” It was on February 22 that the police announced that Mats Löfving had been found dead in his home. – It is deeply tragic and very sad that it would have such an outcome, says Linda Staaf about Löfving’s passing and adds that she “wishes very much that the media had done their job and checked the facts”. In the interview it appears that Linda Staaf made several reports to the Media Ombudsman. This applies to publications in TV4, Svenska Dagbladet and SVT.
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