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After the riots during the Easter weekend, a preliminary investigation into work environment violations was initiated against the Police Authority. Now the special prosecutor’s chamber chooses to drop the preliminary investigation as they make the assessment that no crime has been committed, reports P4 Östergötland.
“Police officers have quite a lot of room to make different assessments when decisions are made without it being considered misconduct,” Chief Prosecutor Jim Westerberg justifies the decision.
According to the prosecutor, the police management has also not made any decisions that can be considered to be misconduct of a criminal nature.
The riots started when Rasmus Paludan, party leader of the Danish far-right party Stram Kurs, during his current “election tour” in Sweden, wanted to burn Islam’s holy book, the Koran.
During the Easter weekend he visited, or announced that he would visit, Linköping, Norrköping, Örebro, Landskrona, Malmö and the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby, which was followed by violent riots with vandalism and violence mainly directed at the police.