Four relatives receive SEK 30,000 in damages, according to the news agency Siren.
They had requested SEK 200,000 each.
SVT has previously reported that the public prosecutor closed the preliminary investigation into deaths, but in September 2020, Civil Rights Defenders submitted a report to the Chancellor of Justice (JK) and requested damages for deficiencies in the investigation of the death.
Got a psychosis
On December 28, 2014, Sinthu Selvarajah died after a police intervention in a psychiatric ward in Västerås. Sinthu Selvarajah, who was then 28 years old, had sought help because he was feeling unwell.
At the ward, he suffered from a psychosis and the staff thought he had a razor blade in his hand and alerted the police.
Five policemen stormed the room he was in. In connection with the intervention, Sinthu suffered from an acute lack of oxygen and was moved to the intensive care unit - the next morning he died.
JK calls the 28-year-old's death "a very tragic and deeply regrettable event" and is critical of the lack of objectivity at the interrogations with the police involved.
Leading questions were asked and the police had the opportunity to discuss the incident among themselves in connection with a relief call on the same day, with the risk of shared memories, according to JK.
"The approach has risked damaging the investigation and the applicants' confidence in the investigation's objectivity," JK writes in the damages decision.