Earlier this year – February 14, more specifically – the judgment was announced. The author Håkan Nesser And his wife is sentenced to prison for a year and a half each. The couple has been convicted of tax offenses when they picked up close to SEK 15 million from their company in Malta, something that SVT reported on.
In an interview with Aftonbladet Håkan Nesser told me that he “refuses prison” and will “chain himself to a pine” when he has to set up.
– When the Prison and Probation Service says when I have to set up, I will say I refuse. Maybe I can chain myself to some pine and throw away the key. We’ll see. In any case, I have to resist. Then they may well come and pick us up by force, Håkan Nesser told the newspaper.
The author recently visited SVT’s literature program Babel; as led by Jessika Gedin. The program was broadcast on March 28, and Nesser’s upcoming prison stay came up. When asked how he is doing now, Nesser replied:
– Yes, really you are despairing but I keep the mask pretty good. I’m so used to this now, it’s been going on for a seven to eight years now. We are innocent and then you should put ourselves in jail. I don’t know how to behave. The last word is not said, he said, among other things, in the program.
The criticism of the interview did not wait. In Dagens Nyheter wrote Johan Croneman That the interview was “totally unsuccessful” and “useless”.
“He took honor and honor both by individual prosecutors and from the entire total Swedish judicial system – in” Babel “we were given an opportunity to get answers to certain follow -up questions, but these never palled Jessika Gedin with asking,” Croneman wrote in his text on Today’s News.
IN Sydsvenskan Standed the newspaper’s cultural manager Maria G Francke Critical of Nesser being interviewed in Babel. “Go to jail without passing” Babel “, Håkan Nesser!” was the headline for Francke’s sawing of the program.
“What stayed with me as a viewer was a nice interview in the studio with Jessika Gedin. There, Nesser was told that he is innocently convicted and that the last word is not said,” wrote Maria G Francke.
Babel has now also been reported to the Review Board by an upset viewer. In the notification, like News24 have taken part in, the person writes:
“In the program he was given unlimited space to plead for his cause – that is, he considers himself innocent. And that he should seek erection, etc. The approach in the program implied that it will be difficult for him to write new books if he can share the cell with another person. The approach was also humorous about prison stay as such was invited to the fact that it was sentenced. and Omhulda, fuss and legitimize/question/indirectly – give him the right to explicitly deny crime. Pia in his notification.