“Tens of thousands of people disappear every year”
“Every year disappear thousands of people in Sweden. The vast majority are to be found – but annually remains around 30 people missing.”
“– There are those who are gone forever, ” says Anders Slightly, responsible for civil protection at the police.”
“Anders Slightly has worked with missing persons in over 20 years. He works mainly with the cases that become life saving sökinsatser and represents people with dementia, the elderly and suicidal persons, the largest proportion of those who disappear.”
“– Those who are depressed and lost by the reason is 25 per cent of our emergency response, ” he says.”
“Based on the statistics of those reported missing can be divided into different groups – those who are most likely victims of crime, they are presumed to have committed suicide, they are presumed to have gone astray, people who are without a trace missing asylum seekers who leaves Sweden without informing the authorities.”
“Last year was notified of 7 100 people missing in Sweden. A few years back in time it looks in a similar way, between 7 000 and more than 9 000 people reported missing per year in the last five years. The vast majority is found within six months, but an average of 30 people per year are found never. And it is often very difficult to manage for relatives.”
” It is hardly to put themselves into. They live in an incredible suspense. They don’t know at all if the relatives are alive or how the disappearance has gone to, ” says Anders Slightly.”
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“There are also those who keep themselves away voluntarily. Why they do it, it is only possible to speculate, ” says Anders Slightly.”
“– There can be youth who are in conflict with someone at home, it can be people who simply are tired of other people, they are somewhere, but you want to be for themselves. There are examples of people who had gone abroad for a longer period of time and suddenly popping up again, ” he says.”
“however, It is not so common among rescue and Anders Slightly myself have been with a few such cases during their 35 years as a police officer. Among other things, a young man who does not come home one day.”
“– He was feeling bad and had disappeared from the job. We had an idea where he could be, but it was a large area. After one and a half day he suddenly came back and didn’t tell us about where he had been or what he had done.”
“TT: How important is it for relatives to the missing person is found, alive or dead?”
“– It is extremely important. We work a lot for that loved ones to get a clearance. We have really no requirement on us to look for missing people who are dead, but it is done anyway for the family’s sake, ” says Anders Slightly.”
“the Missing asylum seekers are difficult to find.”
“About half of those who disappear and never be found is asylum seekers who travel to another country, or goes underground, often in connection with the appeal is refused. The cases are often difficult to investigate because it is likely that the person voluntarily stays away.”
“– The people are not lost in the truest sense of the word. It does not exclude that they may not have been the victim of a crime, but the disappearances have often had great bearing on a negative asylbesked, ” says Susanne Welander, national coordinator for the missing persons.”
“– Concerned administrators often get very little information initially in these cases they are not able to work further with them. For example, it may be due to the notifier, often appointed good men or the social services, do not have much information to give. It makes a large part of these cases is incredibly svårarbetade.”
“Those who disappear may be people with dementia, young people who run away from home or suicidal persons, and the reasons for it are many.”
“Based on the statistics of those reported missing can be divided into different groups – those who are most likely victims of crime, they are presumed to have committed suicide, they are presumed to have gone astray, people who are without a trace missing asylum seekers who leaves Sweden without informing the authorities.”
“the Number of persons reported missing in Sweden per year:”
“the Number of people reported missing and not recovered after 60 days (within the year):”
“the Financier Carl-Erik Björkegren disappeared in June 1994, from his home in the Bay in Skåne. Last anyone saw him was on June 1 that year, over 24 years later, you don’t know what happened to him. A konkursutredning showed that Carl-Eric Björkegren had debts in the billions. An early theory of the police was because he escaped from his creditors and voluntarily fled the country. Theories about the financier, a crime victim has also been up. Carl-Eric Björkegren was pronounced dead on 11 november 2005.”
“A 37-year-old man and a tour manager from Malmö disappeared in the county in 1999. The man disappeared during a rock concert in Sölvesborg and in the event he had a larger sum of money with him. His bag was found later on the lake immeln (Swedish), several miles from Sölvesborg. Despite an extensive sökinsats with dogs, the helicopter and the diver was never found 37-year-old. The search was taken up again in 2017 where the police took the help of Missing People. At the end of the year, sought divers in Ivösjön in northeast Skåne after the man, but without result.”
“A 24-year-old woman disappeared on 19 september 1997 in Färjestaden, Kalmar county. My boyfriend, who reported the disappearance, had last seen the woman when my boyfriend would go to work on the morning of the 19th of september. When my boyfriend came home at 17 o’clock on the same day was 24-see her bold fashion car left outside the home, but the woman was gone. Police suspect that the missing woman has been murdered.”
“On 22 may 2017, a 23-year-old man in the belgian congo. The last time he was seen was at the central station in the belgian congo, since then he has been lost without a trace. He was on his way home to Malmö with the train from Falun and would change trains in Mjölby, sweden, but rose in the past. 23-year-old was depressed at the disappearance.”
“Source: the Police, the Missing People
