The announcement came as a surprise, she tells TT.
Logically, I should win this goal, but you can never be sure. I was very surprised when I found out, but it feels very, very good.
How will you celebrate?
I have a few other things on my mind right now, but on Sunday I'm going to go out to the cabin and just enjoy it. I'm really just going to wander around there by myself. Because damn, it's going to be really nice.
“Lies down flat”
It was in the spring of 2023 that she suddenly started receiving mysterious mail at her cabin and discovered that a large number of unknown people had been registered there.
Getting rid of them proved almost impossible. The police referred her to the Swedish Tax Agency, which said she had to contact all the people first. For three summers she had to involuntarily share the cottage with strangers.
In December last year, she sued the state at Stockholm District Court over the handling of the case. At that time, the Tax Agency had incorrectly registered over 90 people at the cottage.
Now the state has spoken through the Chancellor of Justice and admits that it has violated Ulla-Lena's "right to privacy under the European Convention and thereby also failed to satisfy her right to effective legal protection."
The state is admitting fault and accepting that Ulla-Lena's fundamental human rights have been violated, says Fredrik Bäärnhielm Thorslund, a lawyer at the Center for Justice who helped her pursue the case.
The state also undertakes to pay damages of SEK 10,000.
Brought up in the Riksdag
Now all that remains is an official verdict from the district court, which Ulla-Lena Lindqvist hopes can be a guide for others as well.
I hope that everyone else who is also affected will report it to the Swedish Tax Agency and the police. I don't feel like someone who wants to be seen and heard, but suddenly someone has done it and done something good. It feels very satisfying.
The case has received a lot of attention and has even been debated in parliament.
That the state chooses to muddle through in this way is unusual, according to Fredrik Bäärnhielm Thorslund.
Especially when it's a problem that's so systemic. In fact, this system has failed and it's clear that it has to change.
