It was the night towards January 10, 2019 that a car was shelled from another car on Malmövägen in Värnamo.
None of the three men in that car were hit by any shot.
The incident was one of several in the gang conflict that raged in the area at the time.
Freed in the district court
Later that night, the police were able to stop a car by smashing the tires.
Four men were later indicted on suspicion of attempted murder.
However, the crime was difficult to investigate because neither the plaintiffs nor the accused wanted to answer the investigators' questions.
The district court acquitted the men because it believed that the prosecutor had not succeeded in proving that the men were at the scene when the shots were fired.
In March this year, the Court of Appeal came to the same conclusion.
One of the men now receives SEK 140,000 in compensation for having been detained from January 10 to May 22, 2019. Compensation is on a par with the person who is usually paid to those who have been in custody for so long and then released from crime, the Chancellor of Justice writes in its decision.
The driver receives no compensation
The man who drove the car that was stopped by the police, however, receives no compensation for the time he has been in custody.
JK believes that the man deliberately put himself in a situation where he ran the risk of being suspected of a serious crime when he drove the car and then refused to stop.
“The action does not form part of the criminal allegation and means that the applicant to a significant extent himself has caused him to be deprived of his liberty due to suspicion of crime.
The intervention has been clearly justified ", writes JK in its decision.
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The police interception revealed how it sounded in one of the cars in connection with the shooting.
Photo: The preliminary investigation