Prosecutor Frieda Gummesson is having a hard time. The German woman suspected of being the killer of two children in the Swedish town of Arboga was released from police custody late on Saturday night.
The reason: prosecutor Frieda Gummesson and her team of crime investigators within the police force in Västerås have been unsuccessful in producing enough evidence to connect the German woman to the crime scene.
This failure makes it impossible for the authorities in Germany to keep the suspect behind bars. It makes the Swedish public of course doubt about the skills of Gummesson & co. It also serves to question the precision of the Swedish judicial system, which allows the courts to consent to have people arrested for long time despite few evidences against them. It’s that really right? Really effective?
I don’t want of course to have suspected killers on the loose, but I think it is positive for the rule of law that Swedish prosecutors and police officers understand they must become more efficient when dealing with sensitive and media exposed cases like this one.
Every minute counts, as Criminology Professor Jerzy Sarnecki points out in an interview with Aftonbladet. Flaws, even tiny ones, can play a big, unhelpful role when a child killer is to be trapped. Are we about to witness a judicial tragedy? I hope we do not.
It´s really disappointing how the so called prosecutor has handled this very sensitiv and tragic case. Apparently no scales are needed. It makes one wonder…