The crime classification after the ferry tragedy outside Karlskrona has been changed.
Now Polish authorities announce that they are investigating murder and suicide, write BLT.
– An investigation is underway regarding the murder of a child and the mother’s attempt to take her own life, says Grażyna Wawryniuk, spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office to Polish Polsatnews.
It was on Thursday at a quarter past four that the accident on the cruise ferry Stena Spirit occurred. According to initial information, a seven-year-old boy would have fallen into the water, after which the mother, who is in her 35s, jumped in.
Polish authorities now suspect suicide as well as murder and will therefore investigate the incident accordingly.
– An investigation is underway regarding the murder of a child and the mother’s attempt to take her own life, says Grażyna Wawryniuk, spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office to Polish Polsatnews.
The surveillance footage
On Friday, Polish media reported on surveillance footage from the ferry that refutes the theory that the child fell overboard and that the mother jumped after him.
However, Stefan Elfström, head of communications for Stena Line, does not want to confirm this to BLT.
– What we can ascertain from the material that we have handed over to the police is that our surveillance cameras confirm that two people fell overboard, but not how it happened, he tells the newspaper.