Two men escaped on Sunday morning from a detention center in connection to the prison in Borås. The escape ended in Bollebygd on Monday afternoon.
They were apprehended outdoors near the center, says Thomas Fuxborg.
They were found after the police received a number of tips, and will now be taken to the nearest detention center to then be placed in a nearby institution. The arrest went very calmly.
As calm as can be. They have been gone for a day now and it's tough to be on the run, says Thomas Fuxborg.
The men, both sentenced to several years in prison, managed to escape from a recreation yard and over several fences – according to the Prison and Probation Service, they got out in connection with the staff handling two parallel alarms on the recreation yard. Exactly how it happened is still unclear.
This is very serious and we want to be clear about it. You should not be able to escape from a Swedish detention center, says Joakim Righammar, head of the Prison and Probation Service's staff for the escape.
"Quick solutions"
According to information to TV4 News, the men could escape via a scaffolding, among other things, after another inmate feigned an epileptic seizure.
We have also seen the information that there should be building materials on site and we are of course looking into it, says Joakim Righammar.
At the same time, it is being investigated whether it was right to place the two men in the detention center at the institution in Borås, which has security class 2.
Due to capacity shortages, we have created a lot of quick solutions to fulfill our mission. There, we must consider whether the detention center was safe enough for these individuals, says Joakim Righammar.
The obvious answer is no, since they have escaped. But we must look if there is anything in the process or our routines that led to this.
"Not reasonable"
One of them, a man in his 30s, is sentenced to a several-year prison sentence for arson. The other, who is in his 25s, is according to Göteborgs-Posten a leading figure in one of the criminal gangs in Gothenburg.
He was recently sentenced to 17 years and 10 months in prison and was in detention awaiting the court of appeal's verdict.
Mats Ihlbom, one of the prosecutors in the case, is sharply critical.
This must not happen, it's not reasonable, he says to Expressen.
