When the man, who is in his 55s, was arrested in November, the police suspected that he was involved in a woman's death in Trollhättan in September last year. A death that was initially deemed to be a suicide.
How the arrest itself went down can now be seen in the Norwegian TV2 program "Norge bak fasaden".
The man, who has been described as an advocate for euthanasia, told a seriously ill woman in chats that he had killed before and described how it would go down.
But the "woman" was a fictional person created by TV2. Once on site in Sweden, the man was confronted by the TV team, which had also contacted the Swedish police, who subsequently arrested him.
TV2's program editor Trygve Rønningen says to the Norwegian newspaper Journalisten that they have received a request from both Norwegian and Swedish police to hand over their material.
We haven't done that, says Rønningen according to NTB.
The man has previously been sentenced to eight years in prison, five of which were conditional, in Norway for aiding and abetting suicide. According to the verdict, which the man has appealed, he pressured and helped a 73-year-old Norwegian woman to take her life at a hotel outside Strömstad in 2023.
In addition to the suspicion of murder in Trollhättan, the man is also suspected of three cases of incitement to suicide in Stockholm, Norrköping, and Västerås, according to TTELA.
TTELA has previously also reported that the man was convicted of murdering a seven-year-old girl in Norway when he was 15 years old.
