The Express was the first to name Martin Timell in connection with criminal charges against him during the Metoo fall 2017, charges he was released from in the High Court in 2019.

Expressen and several other media have previously been convicted by the Press's Opinion Committee for violating good publicist custom in their publications on Martin Timell. What then is the prospect of winning a court case against media in court?

- On a general level, it is tough to win such a goal. It is extremely costly, a case in the district court with its own and the counterparty's costs can be up to two million, and then maybe through the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court too, says Dag Wetterberg.

Requires endurance and money

To pursue a prosecution goal such as this requires both endurance and that you are at checkout, says Dag Wetterberg.

- There are quite a few that are, you can also see how few such goals exist, he says.

At the trial, other challenges await as well.

- Then the jury sits with an instruction to rather free than trap, it is difficult to get through. And even if they fall, the judge may consider that it does not reach slander.

The Express has previously been both cleared and dropped

Thomas Mattsson, former editor-in-chief at Expressen, has previously written in an e-mail to Kulturnyheterna that they are waiting to be notified of the lawsuit and that he welcomes the publication of the papers in the newspaper.

The Express has previously both been released and dropped for slander. In 2006, Expressen's former editor-in-chief Otto Sjöberg was convicted in the District Court for slander by Mikael Persbrandt and in 2010 he was convicted by the District Court for gross defamation after publishing the name and picture of a suspected offender.

In 2017, the Freedom of Expression jury exonerated Expressen from all allegations made following the 2013 disclosures of xenophobia.