According to the supplement, which prosecutors submitted to the district court in Eskilstuna is the accused man’s dna on two of the stolen items. From the stolen regalia has also been able to secure dna from a 26-year-old man as 22-year-old states that he is friend with.
the 26-year-old and a 24-year-old has been detained suspected of aggravated receiving stolen goods in connection with the restitution of the royal gold.
to answer questions about why his and his friend’s dna found on the kungakronorna:
”No comment”, is all interrogator gets out of the man.
the Man’s blood has been found both in and outside of the booth, where regalia were displayed to the public. In addition, have you found his blood on a bike that should have been used as flyktfordon after the theft.
During the ongoing tingsrättsförhandlingen has 22-year-old self gave a long presentation to explain the emergence of all the damning technical evidence, as the prosecutor submits. He has admitted that he stole the bikes and a boat that should have been used in the coup, but has consistently claimed that he did not even have seen the stolen items.
a riksäpple and two kungakronor in gold, was used in the time of king Karl IX and queen Kristina the elder funerals in the beginning of the 1600s. They have an estimated insured value of sek 65 million, but is considered to be historically and culturally priceless.
The stolen items were found during the ongoing trial and the prosecution then had ten days for further investigation.
In the material that the prosecution on Thursday submitted to the court are pictures of the stolen regalia which clearly shows the damage to two of the objects. The golden orb has been split in the middle and Karl IX:s begravningskrona has been pushed together from the top.
”Kronringen as a whole is deformed. It is key in several places, particularly on the two long sides, one of the deformations is a damage with hard and sharp folds. All the stamens are deformed and inböjda towards the middle, the occasional have less stretch marks in the brytvecken”.
the Same expert estimates that the worth has been reduced by several million as a result of the damage.
