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by Tomte·11y ago·view on hn ↗
That's been disproven.

Sweden did not interrogate those suspects in order to "charge" them, but in an earlier state of the murder investigation.

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Swedish courts can, and have, charged people in absentia, so that argument does not hold.

In fact, Swedish courts have even convicted a dead man in absentia, after deciding (before knowing he was dead) the trial could go on in absentia:

http://www.thelocal.se/20100526/26862