The guard has been training new guards for over 20 years and at the time of the incident ran his own guard company worth millions.
During the investigation, he was stripped of his permission to be a guardian by the County Board. He appealed to the Court of Appeal but was rejected.
In an email to the prosecutor, the security guard’s private lawyer writes that a trial would mean great financial damage and threatens to sue.
– The damage XX would already incur through an application for a summons is therefore, from a pure damages perspective, adequately causal in relation to the actions of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, writes lawyer Anders Göran Ryberg in an email to the prosecutor.
Grabbed the thumb
The security guard in Luleå denies any crime and believes that the victim tried to hurt him.
In the video from the surveillance camera, the guard says that it is clear that the suspected shoplifter tried to hurt him by grabbing his thumb.
“Feel a terrible pain in the thumb and am convinced that the thumb will come off,” says the guard in questioning.
Denies stranglehold
The guard denies that he strangled the man from behind and believes that the shin bone was placed over the face to stop the man from biting.
“The interrogator asks if XX put his knee or shin over the man’s neck and XX explains that he never pressed against the neck in any way.”