It concerns the murders in Rönninge and Boden where two women were brutally murdered by men who were unknown to them. In Boden, the suspected perpetrator had been forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital just days before the murder, according to the man's mother, who spoke to NSD.
Compulsory care is increasingly being discussed. But according to the chief psychiatrists, psychiatry cannot "act on suspicion or discomfort."
"Without treatable mental illness and without legal support, healthcare is never a means of preventively depriving people of their liberty. Such a system would not only be unrealistic, but also deeply legally uncertain," the chief psychiatrists write.
They write that it is “a fundamental misunderstanding and a dangerous simplification” to assume that psychiatry could have predicted and prevented the murders, and therefore has failed in its mission.
