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The Swedish justice system looks extremely bad here.


This got confusing. Here's some reasons...

- Firstly the women said they individually both consented to sex on different nights, but in each case their condoms split (perhaps JA did it deliberately, perhaps not - another few documentaries have said he's got 4 kids from different mothers, so insinuate this possibility).

- Then the women jointly go to the police to ask if they can force him to take an STI test, as he refused for whatever reason.

- Then the police accuse him of rape, and pursue the case. Then the case gets dropped, then reopened.

- And now, JA remains in the Equidorian embassy, refusing (understandably) to go to Sweden.

- And the women have not been absolutely PRECISE on what their position is:
a) are they wanting him to be prosecuted at all?
b) if so, are they pursuing prosecution for failure to be STI tested OR for rape OR both?


This is about as convoluted a prosecution as one could be, IMO.

Julian could have just taken a test in the first place, and none of this seemingly would have gone any further. But then the women sound to me like they are now being used by their own police force to prosecute the man for a trumped-up rape charge, and seemingly allowing themselves to be??

Thoughts...? (preferrably by some sane, questioning, non-Julian evangelising, users please!)

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Why does it matter what the women want? They are not running the case against him. The police are obliged to report any suspected crimes and so they did and now it's in the hands of the prosecutor.

The reason why it is dropped and reopened is because it is such a weak case. The police who reported it was unsure if it even was a crime. Had JA just went along with the questioning from the start the case would probably have been dropped a long time ago (or he could just have done the STI test before the police was even involved)

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He's not afraid of going to a Swedish prison...

He's afraid of being deported to the US from Sweden.

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