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It is one of many similar emails that we are currently receiving as a result of our news that the police are releasing photos of 51 people from Sveaparken during the Easter coup.
The simple answer is that we publish the news about the police’s unusual move. Hunting and investigating suspects is not our job, it is the police’s.
We at SVT are generally restrictive about publishing names and pictures. Most often, both a conviction and great public interest are required – in addition to this, a number of aspects follow, including how the publication affects crime victims, relatives and others.
The pictures clarify the news
As a natural part of the decision not to post pictures of the suspects, we also do not help our audience find that information with clickable links or the like.
But then why do we have the images at all, if we are now blurring anyway?
Because we think it clarifies the news. You understand what kind of pictures are posted.
Worth noting is that the police clearly write that the images should not be distributed by others, but there we wanted to make a different decision and received their copyright permission for this.
It can also be noted that we have previously published the names and pictures of profiled people who were sentenced after the riots.