It was at 01:00 during the night towards Tuesday that a police patrol was alerted to the bridge that crosses highway 97 via Sävastvägen.
- According to callers, a person was standing on the bridge and shot with a green laser at the passing traffic, says Henrik Fahlén, RLC officer at the police command center.
A person must have suffered some form of eye injury and a report of abuse was made.
The police patrol that went out to the scene wore goggles when they searched and checked people in the area.
At present, there is no suspected perpetrator in the case.
Imprisonment on the penalty scale
Permission is required from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority to handle strong laser pointers in laser class 3R, 3B and 4. Anyone who shoots with a green laser in the eye so that injuries occur can be sentenced to assault, or aggravated assault:
"Anyone who inflicts bodily injury, illness or pain on another person or puts him or her in power or any other such condition is sentenced for assault to imprisonment for a maximum of two years or, if the crime is minor, to a fine or imprisonment for a maximum of six months" , it says in the third chapter, fifth paragraph of the Criminal Code.
Alternative criminal classifications can be aggravated assault, attempted assault or causing bodily harm.