I think you should be clear that you cannot rule out that it is a foreign power that is behind this type of sabotage, says Hultqvist to Sveriges Radio P4 Östergötland.
About 30 telephone masts have been sabotaged through, among other things, cut cables and destroyed fuses. The incidents began during the Easter weekend in April and in some cases, the mobile network has been temporarily knocked out.
According to SVT, the police are working on a theory that the same actor is behind most of the attacks, all of which have a connection to the important European route E22, which runs along the east coast.
Peter Hultqvist thinks he recognizes the approach.
This feels like a typical hybrid action where you try to sabotage structures in Sweden that have to do with infrastructure, he says to P4 Östergötland.
He notes that Russia has threatened with measures against Sweden since its entry into Nato and because of Swedish support for Ukraine.
