Two migrants recently stole a 90-year-old woman’s credit card and then managed to withdraw €1,900 from it.
The police published images of the
perpetrators and asked the public to help identify the men. The images
were completely uncensored and the men’s faces were clearly visible.
According to the police, about 10
similar cases have occurred in different regions of the country. The
approach is the same – the robbers target elderly people.
“If you recognize the people in the video, contact the police at 114 14”, polisen.se explicitly writes on their website.
And what does Swedish state TV (SVT) do when they write about the police alert? They pixelate and censor the images and refuse to help the police.
SVT writes in their article that it
would be unethical, and a violation of their “code of ethics” to publish
images of people who are not convicted, even if the image is already on
the police’s website.
Furthermore, SVT claims that they do
not want to be “an active part” of the search, and do not consider the
robberies to have “a large public interest” because the perpetrators are
not considered “to constitute a direct and blatant danger”.
In other words, tax-funded SVT
chooses not to use its large media platform, which is funded by Swedish
taxpayers, to help the police and the 90-year-old woman find the
perpetrators.
Freelance journalist Joakim Lamotte rages against SVT’s actions. “Totally bizarre,” he calls the state censorship on Facebook.
“They are wanted by the police for
having attacked elderly people in a reckless way. But SVT still chooses
not to show their faces.”
“When you see things like this, you
have to wonder whether SVT is on the victims’, or the criminals’ side.
This is completely incomprehensible. It is so embarrassing that I can’t
find words. My God,” he writes.
For our readers in Sweden: here it is 🙂
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