"If I had handled the case, I would have let him get a little further on the path to completing a crime," he tells TV4's Nyhetsmorgon .
The plans were uncovered, among other things, with the help of a police officer working undercover. Säpo decided to arrest the man on the same day that it was assessed that he “began what could have become functional explosive devices.”
According to GW Persson, in cases like this, the police need to act on the right side of the border.
"Provoking someone to commit a crime that they otherwise would not have committed does not count. We have had such cases in court and they have ended up being acquitted," he says.
However, GW Persson fears that the police and prosecutors acted too quickly in this case.
Hopefully I'm wrong, but I can't rule out that it's true. We have some cases where they've intervened at an early stage, safety first, so to speak. They've actually ended up with acquittals in similar cases.
