— I have no update on that case, says Per Fahlström, press spokesperson at the police.
The exemption took place in connection with a dentist’s visit in central Södertälje just before 10 o’clock in the morning.
When the Probation Service’s transporters arrived at the dentist’s office, a car pulled up alongside. Several masked people jumped out and took the teenage boy at gunpoint and drove away.
“It is what we consider to be an armed release, because the people who carried it out were armed with firearm-like objects,” said Ulf Mossberg, press secretary at the Prison Service, earlier in the day.
The police had an extensive search effort with, among other things, a helicopter, but so far it has not yielded results.
A preliminary investigation into serious illegal threats and serious weapons offenses has been launched.
According to consistent media reports, the freed man is a 17-year-old boy convicted of murder.
In February, another attention-grabbing acquittal occurred in Norrköping, where a convicted criminal was acquitted at a hospital.