SWEDEN
What are they trying to hide

The accident commission to erase Estonia testimonies – JO-notified by survivors
Published December 1, 2025 at 09.47

Domestic. The National Accident Commission plans to delete the recorded interviews with Estonia survivors when the new investigation is completed. Now the authority's brazen move is being reported by Rolf Sörman, one of the passengers who survived the disaster, Ekot reports.

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In 14 days, the Swedish and Estonian Accident Commissions will present the new Estonia investigation at a press conference in Tallinn.

The investigation was set up after previously unknown holes in the hull were revealed in a documentary film in 2020 – and could lead to the 1997 accident investigation being supplemented or remade.

The ferry was not seaworthy
Several new dives have been made, filmed the wreckage, mapped the damage and examined the area on the seabed. Investigators state that the passenger ferry Estonia was not seaworthy based on the permits and certificates that the ship had. According to the technical assessment, she was not built for traffic on the open sea.

As for the holes in the hull, the new investigation points to the fact that the damage likely occurred only when the ship hit the bottom. Theories of an explosion in the foregoing are dismissed. The investigation is reported to have found no trace suggesting blasting.

Estonia sank in September 1994. A total of 852 people died and 137 survived. Unlike the previous accident investigation, the new investigation has collected testimonials from surviving passengers through recorded interviews.

Rolf Sörman behind notification
One of those interviewed is the survivor Rolf Sörman. He is strongly critical of the fact that the Swedish Government Commission plans to delete the recordings when the report is complete and only save summaries. That's why he JO-announced the agency.

"I want the Parliamentary Ombudsmen to look at how the State Accident Commission in Sweden deals with public documents at all, and especially the interviews they did with us survivors," Rolf Sörman told Ekot.

Deputy Director General of the Swedish National Accident Commission, Jonas Bäckstrand, tells Ekot that he is not aware of the notification, but that he is prepared to answer whether the Parliamentary Ombudsmen asks for information about the handling of the material.

SWEDEN
What are they trying to hide

The accident commission to erase Estonia testimonies – JO-notified by survivors
Published December 1, 2025 at 09.47

Domestic. The National Accident Commission plans to delete the recorded interviews with Estonia survivors when the new investigation is completed. Now the authority's brazen move is being reported by Rolf Sörman, one of the passengers who survived the disaster, Ekot reports.

30 years since Estonia sank – still military secrecy
Relatives call for murder investigation about Estonia
The Estonia investigation is not resumed
District Court convicts journalist for Estonia-reveal
The bottom around Estonia is being investigated again

View all

In 14 days, the Swedish and Estonian Accident Commissions will present the new Estonia investigation at a press conference in Tallinn.

The investigation was set up after previously unknown holes in the hull were revealed in a documentary film in 2020 – and could lead to the 1997 accident investigation being supplemented or remade.

The ferry was not seaworthy
Several new dives have been made, filmed the wreckage, mapped the damage and examined the area on the seabed. Investigators state that the passenger ferry Estonia was not seaworthy based on the permits and certificates that the ship had. According to the technical assessment, she was not built for traffic on the open sea.

As for the holes in the hull, the new investigation points to the fact that the damage likely occurred only when the ship hit the bottom. Theories of an explosion in the foregoing are dismissed. The investigation is reported to have found no trace suggesting blasting.

Estonia sank in September 1994. A total of 852 people died and 137 survived. Unlike the previous accident investigation, the new investigation has collected testimonials from surviving passengers through recorded interviews.

Rolf Sörman behind notification
One of those interviewed is the survivor Rolf Sörman. He is strongly critical of the fact that the Swedish Government Commission plans to delete the recordings when the report is complete and only save summaries. That's why he JO-announced the agency.

"I want the Parliamentary Ombudsmen to look at how the State Accident Commission in Sweden deals with public documents at all, and especially the interviews they did with us survivors," Rolf Sörman told Ekot.

Deputy Director General of the Swedish National Accident Commission, Jonas Bäckstrand, tells Ekot that he is not aware of the notification, but that he is prepared to answer whether the Parliamentary Ombudsmen asks for information about the handling of the material.

SWEDEN

Sweden is a muslim country, murders and child rapists well come but not Nuns

© Government Offices/Saint Elisabeth Monastery

Forssell to ban Belarusian nuns from visiting Sweden
Published December 1, 2025 at 12.20

Foreign. A group of women from St. Elisabeth’s nunne monastery in Belarus visited Tibble church in Täby to sell, among other things, mittens, shawls and Russian dolls. Now Johan Forssell (M) will make sure that the women are never allowed to set foot in Sweden again.
"We have no obligation whatsoever to show hospitality," the Minister of Migration announces.

Migration Minister Johan Forssell has continued to receive as many immigrants as previously S-led governments – despite his promise of a “paradigm shift”.

Even in 2025, Tidö parties will move towards close to 100,000 distributed residence permits. During January-October, 75,000 such have already been awarded.

Now Forssell wants to review the rules for whether Christian Europeans with "connections to Russian interests" at all should be allowed to even visit Sweden.

The background is that Belarusian women from a nunnery were invited to Swedish churches. The Church of Sweden has accused the women of "indirectly" supporting the Russian state.

In a written comment to P4 Stockholm, Forssell writes now:

"There may be reason to review the possibilities for people with links to the Russian state's interests to stay in Sweden. We have no obligation whatsoever to show hospitality to people who support Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine."

At the same time, Forssell announces that he will contact the Migration Agency to test whether today's rules need to be changed.

The issue was highlighted when staff from St. Elisabeth's monastery in Belarus recently sold craft products in Tibble church in Täby.

This prompted the Church of Sweden to demand that the government put its foot down considerably against the Christian women.

"They actually support the Russian regime indirectly and we don't want to contribute to that," sägerLisa-Gun Bernerstedt, head of civil preparedness in the Church of Sweden, told Swedish Radio.

The Church of Sweden has issued a dissuade of its congregations from collaborating with the monastery.

St. Elisabeth's monastery denies being linked to the Russian state. For P4 Stockholm, representatives declare that the nuns' fundraisers go to charity, like food to poor and elderly care.