Charged with Serious Crimes After the Landslide in Stenungsund

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The company manager and landowner Åsa Norberg and the head of the excavation company are being charged on suspicion of causing the landslide at Stenungsund. The prosecutor claims that they took in the excavated material to “enrich themselves” – the excavation company is said to have received 24 million for taking in the soil. – I am disappointed but not discouraged, writes Åsa Norberg in a comment to DN.

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Several people were injured when the E6 collapsed in the dramatic landslide in Stenungsund in 2023. Now the landowner and contractor are being charged with several serious crimes.

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According to the prosecutor, the suspects had large amounts of excavated material dumped on an industrial site - which is said to have caused the landslide that led to the E6 being closed for nine months.

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The landslide destroyed approximately 400 meters of the highway, while three people were slightly injured. Now two people are being charged after the large landslide outside Stenungsund in 2023. They are suspected, among other things, of gross negligence endangering public safety.

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Photos: the situation immediately after the landslide, September 23, 2023. After a landslide on the Swedish E6 route, an entire group of carriers faced months of equipment loss. The worst-hit company was a Polish transport company whose brand-new refrigerated truck, loaded with salmon, waited nine months to be opened and disinfected (article at this link). But who will bear financial responsibility for this incident? A trial has begun in the Dis…

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Almost three years after the major landslide in Stenungsund, two people have been charged at Uddevalla District Court. According to the prosecutor, the landslide was caused by significantly larger amounts of excavated material being placed than the ground could handle. Now a legal process awaits regarding responsibility for one of the largest infrastructure disasters in modern times.