On January 4, the man was charged with gross blue-light sabotage after making 318 calls to the SOS alarm and providing false information.

On Tuesday, he was convicted of false alarms in Malmö District Court.

But the court does not consider the crimes to be blue light sabotage.

Although at least 127 of the calls have led to some form of disruption for the police, rescue services and ambulance services, the court does not consider that the alarms "risked complicating or hindering operations in the serious way that the crime of sabotage against blue light activities is aimed at", the district court writes in a press release. .

"Important marking"

- This is an important signal that the 37-year-old is held accountable.

It is unacceptable to eat away at society's emergency activities as this man has done.

False alerting can pose an acute danger to life and health, says Mattias Sigfridsson, Deputy Chief of Police in Malmö, in a press release.

The district court has assessed that at least 127 of the conversations have led to some form of disruption of the police, rescue service or ambulance service's operations and in 33 of the cases led to expressions of the police, fire brigade and ambulance out in Malmö.

Threat of kidnapping

The 37-year-old is also convicted of unlawful threats due to the fact that he in a conversation with 112 claimed that he had kidnapped a police chief's child and threatened to kill them.

The man who was previously unpunished is sentenced to probation.

The man was arrested in October.

Then we talked to residents in Rosengård about how they were affected by the many false alarms:

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On October 23, the bomb squad's robot investigated a suspected dangerous object on Von Lingen's road in Malmö.

Photo: Mikael Nilsson