the Man’s blood has been found at the scene of the crime. He has also admitted to police that he stole a bicycle that the boat was used as a flyktfordon when culturally invaluable begravningsregalier in the summer was stolen from the Strängnäs cathedral. Although it denies the 22-year-old of involvement in the brazen heist.
When king Karl IX and queen Kristina the elder begravningskronor and a riksäpple in gold was stolen in the summer saw the witnesses, two persons leaving the cathedral. But the 22-year-old is the only one who could be linked to the crime.
the beginning of the 1600s, and also in a european comparison, they are considered to be of exceptionally high quality. The financial value of the objects stolen has been estimated at sek 65 million. Police and prosecutors suspect that the regalia may have been abroad, and does not exclude that the theft was a understand.
the 22-year-old has in the police questioning consistently refused to answer questions about who else may be involved in the crime and says that he himself was in Strängnäs the current day in order to deliver a stolen bike, unaware that it would be used as flyktfordon after the coup. He has also admitted that he at one point in the past stolen the boat that was used by the thieves, but even here he claims that he did not know that it was used for theft.
the man to be given the opportunity to give his version of what happened in the cathedral when the regalia was stolen. The district court shall conduct a view of the cathedral along with the man and his lawyer.
