In recent years, Mats Löfving, regional police chief in Stockholm and deputy national police chief, has been reported twice for crimes against Linda Staaf. In both cases, reports have been dropped and Staaf has said that she does not consider herself to have been the victim of a crime.
Now Linda Staaf chooses to tell her version of the events.
– This story must be brought back to the facts, says Linda Staaf in Nyhetsmorgon.
“I who is questioned”
The events have led to a storm of criticism, even against Linda Staaf herself. This weekend, she commented on the relationship with Löfving in Dagens Nyheter.
– It was a private but superficial relationship, which has been magnified in the media and which developed after I got the job as head of intelligence. Then I don’t want to go into that relationship in more detail, because like everyone else I have the right to a private life, she says DN.
Staaf believes that the aftermath has become a storm of criticism against her personally.
– I was the one who was exposed. I sought support and now I’m the one who is being questioned, devalued and offended by people who haven’t heard what it’s all about, says Linda Staaf. If I, as a senior police chief and a woman, allow this to happen, what kind of signals am I sending to other vulnerable women? says Staaf.
SVT Nyheter has searched for both Staaf and Löfving for several days without success.
