“Josefin Nilsson’s words in court: ”I do not know who you are””
“Kerstin Weigl subscribed the trial against ex-boyfriend”
“I remember that she had dyed her hair dark for the trial. “
“In my article, she was “the movie star”. “
“It would be twenty years before I could write out her name: Josefin Nilsson. “
“I have strong memories from that day for more than twenty years ago in Stockholm, came to hall nine, on Tuesday, 8 september. I know that Josefin Nilsson cast timid glances towards the journalists. “
“She was afraid to get caught up on image and being recognized, and very brave because she spoke directly to the man who had made her ill. I had never been before in a courtroom. “
“She cried almost without ceasing, but she looked straight at him. Now I am reading on my article, can hear her voice, which does not bar any wrath:”
” Why were you mean to me?”
” You have demonic sides. And you know it. When you get angry it is like to see death in the eyes.”
“– But I think if your good sides. That is what is so terrible. I don’t know who you are.”
“– It is a sadness that it will be so awful between the two people who liked each other.”
“Josefin Nilsson sat to the left in the courtroom, dressed in a black jacket and trousers, and kept his hands clasped around his head, ”that to hold it together”, I wrote. “
“that is Just it, I don’t remember. “
“But I will remember that the accused came late, he had overslept. In my memory he was comfortable, relaxed, vaguely worried: he looked at his former girlfriend as one looks at a troublesome child.”
“In his version was everything we had heard in the district court if ”fyllesvammel” and his ”cool temperament” but, he conceded he ”may need a wake-up call about how I treat people”. He apologized: ”You, forgive me”. She didn’t answer.”
“Josefin Nilsson didn’t want to speak openly about the violence then. When she died, she had begun to write a book that she wanted to tell you what the abuse had done to her, MeToo-bet before the movement was born. “
“A MeToo-bet before the movement was born”
“Now there is a documentary about her which strongly engages people. Dramaturgy is given, with a beautiful broken woman who died and a convicted offender who is a member of the royal dramatic theatre, such a thing is indeed to build lynchstämningar on, but many, in fact, reflect seriously on what must be done next to the global huge folkhälsoproblemet with men’s violence against women. “
“I want to think about is the power of a person’s story, especially from someone we think we know. Magdalena Graaf wrote a strong book ”It will be a pleasure to kill you” if a ungdomsäktenskap with serious violence. “
“It needed how many stories whatsoever about women who stop ashamed of something they have not done, and one of them was named Josefin Nilsson.”
