The night against Saturday, October 28, 2017, the policeman's villa in Västerås was shot with 22 shots from an automatic weapon. Upstairs, the police and his family, including two children, were asleep. No one was physically injured, but the family became very sever.

Now the Crime Compensation Board has decided that all family members receive SEK 100,000 each in violation compensation from the Crime Victims Authority.

"Great ruthlessness"

- The shooter has shown a great deal of ruthlessness through his actions. It was just lucky circumstances that made no one in the house hit, says Bo Eriksson, a lawyer at the Crime Victims Authority's Crime Damage Unit in a press release.

The motivation is that the shooter must have been indifferent to the fact that people in the house could have been hit by the shots, and die. The family has thus been subjected to attempted murder, and receives the compensation customary for victims who have been subjected to murder attempts, but not physically injured.

Linked to the police work

The Crime Victims Authority concludes that the shots against the police home are linked to his work.

- The fact that a representative of the judiciary is subjected to an assassination in this way in his home with his family is extremely serious. We hope that the compensation paid can help to compensate the family for the very serious violation they have been exposed to, ”says Åsa Lundmark, head of the Crime Damage Unit in the press release.

A 21-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the shooting, but was not charged with the crime, due to lack of evidence.