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Witnesses are frightened into silence
Thereby crime has been allowed to triumph. The threats have achieved the goal they aimed at. Lawsuits have been discontinued and accused criminals are acquitted without even their guilt being tested in trial. - If society does not emphasise now that this is not acceptable then no prosecutor will take upon himself investigations with organised criminals involved, says Assisting Chief Prosecutor Eva Lundström in Uppsala. The prosecutor discontinued the prosecution - due to fear Six out of ten prosecutors has been threatened. One of the prosecutors even admits that he or she discontinued a prosecution due to fear. Among the answers of the inquiry there are several examples of how the threats are carried out: wheel nuts that has been taken away from the car, letter bomb, arson. One prosecutor thinks that mainly the Nazis have become more practised and professional. - Before they were mainly a beer drinking yelling mob. Now they even have their own heads of security. There are people within the organisations that are capable of doing very advanced surveys of policemen, prosecutors and journalists says the prosecutor. We have also made an investigation among 1000 random selected police officers. Here the threat is even more obvious: nine out of ten police officers have been threatened while doing their duty. The threats mainly come from drug addicts, drunken persons and people that are mentally ill, but every sixth answer indicates that the threats also come from the criminal mc gangs and Nazis. As frontier soldiers of the community governed by law, police officers are more often threatened than prosecutors. And almost all the police officers think that the threat against the police has increased, 93 % share that opinion. One out of four has also received threats against his family. "If there are threats against the family it isn't difficult to choose between the interest of the State and your own family. Sometimes I don't 'see' if I know that my family might be hurt" writes a policeman. "Two mc guys drove up on my side" Another one is reasoning in the same way: "I avoid to step in if I think there will be consequences for me or my family." Both policemen and prosecutors testify that they sometimes receive threats that they can't report or act against as they are legal, but nevertheless very threatening. One prosecutor is telling: - Half a year after a mc trial I went out cycling with my little daughter when suddenly two mc guys drove up on my side. They didn't say anything, they just stared at me. Their silence was as uncomfortable as the feeling that they knew of me and my life. Hidden threats against children is a way of creating insecurity. In the investigation one finds many testimonies of such tactics, about mc gangs asking the policemen how their children at the X nursery are doing, or how the family likes to live on x road. One policeman tells about a colleague in Stockholm whose children came home from the day nursery with a chocolate box. "Greetings to your dad" said the mc guy dressed in a black leather waistcoat with a skull and bones on. These examples show that Nazis and criminal mc gangs have well organised personal files of their opponents. But it also shows that they can reach their goals without committing crime. 
In March 1997 a warder at Kumla prison was threatened by Miitri Lehto who
served an eight year sentence for a brutal knife homicide on the hockey
player Peter Karlsson in Västerås. Karlsson was a homosexual and he was
killed by 64 stabs with a knife. Since then the number 64 has become a
code for the Nazis hatred against gay people.
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Björn Björkqvist
20 years old, Karlskrona.
Kim Blomqvist
24 years old, Nybro.
Sonny Brandt
28 years old, Göteborg.
Anders Ärleskog
23 years old,
Karlskrona
Mikael Byman
22 years old,
Ludvika.
Kim Edwilson
Viégas Sousa
32 years old,
Hasslarp.
David Emilsson
30 years old,
Ale. 
Rickard Fredriksson
27 years old,
Linköping.
I avoid to step in if I think there will be consequences for me or my
family.