They are suspected of having been kidnapped - would be executed if the mother did not pay

The mother of the son, who is charged, states in a police interview that she was called by her son just before 3 o'clock at night. The son told him he was being held prisoner in an apartment in Helsingborg, that someone had shot him in the leg and that the perpetrators had told him that they would kill him if a debt of SEK 50,000 was not paid.

The mother then got to talk to two other men, one of whom said that her son was in debt for not paying two kilos of amphetamine. The man threatened the mother by saying her son would be killed if she didn't deliver the money the next day.

When the mother later came to the police house, the police were able to record a phone call. The son maintained the same story that he was kidnapped and blackmailed. Here he also said that there was a criminal group behind the kidnapping, and that his friend should also have been kidnapped. The perpetrators should at this time have tried to shoot the son but failed when the cartridge got stuck, according to the son.

The suspected kidnapping required many police resources during the day. The national unit against international and organized crime led the investigation. The police's national operative department, negotiator, the root cause of serious crimes, intervening police officers, a judge from Halmstad district court and several other police resources were connected.

When the police managed the positions of the son's mobile, it turned out that it was in Halmstad. The son's apartment in Halmstad was checked but turned out to be empty. Through a person who met the son earlier in the day, who she then estimated had been unharmed at the meeting, the police determined that it was all a false alarm.

Towards evening, the police managed to locate the son at a school in Halmstad. He was taken to an interrogation where he denied the mother's story. He said he called his mother to ask if he could borrow money to pay a debt but that neither the kidnapping nor the extortion had taken place.

The son should also have sent pictures to his mother on wounds and written that he had been beaten with ax and hammer. In the police interview, the son says that the injuries have come when he fell with the bicycle and hit his head in a locker door and that it is not true that he should have claimed that they came from an ax and hammer. The son, who is a resident of Halmstad, denies crime.