What makes the case strange is that, according to the authorities’ estimate, the deceased has been living in an apartment building in Gothenburg for maybe three years.
in Sweden we are amazed at the case where a dead man has been found in an apartment building in Gothenburg. No crime is suspected in the case.
What makes the case strange is that, according to the authorities’ estimate, the deceased has been lying in the apartment for maybe three years.
However, what makes the case even more special is that the apartment where the deceased was lying has been sold this year. So a broker and a lot of interested buyers have visited the apartment, but none of them have noticed the deceased lying in the apartment.
The Swedish media reports extensively on the case.
According to newspaper reports, the deceased found in an apartment in the Kortedala district is an approximately 80-year-old man. An authority interviewed by Swedish television evaluate that the man was “very lonely”.
The incident all the backgrounds are not yet known, but according to the authorities’ assessment, the man may have died as early as 2019, says the person who first reported the case The evening paper.
In any case, the deceased has lain forgotten for a very long time, until this year the local kronunvouti, or foreclosure authority, became interested in the apartment due to unpaid bills, and the apartment was ordered to be sold.
In May 2022, the approximately 40-square-meter high-rise apartment was visited by brokers and interested prospective buyers, and the deals were concluded in June. During all this time, the deceased was still lying in the apartment among the goods and furniture.
The dead man was not found until August, when the authority responsible for the sale of the apartment was still inspecting the apartment. The dead man was lying half under the bed in the living room, which also served as a bedroom. According to Aftonbladet, the man was mummified.
The incident after it was revealed, people in Sweden wondered how the deceased was not found earlier. Explanations have been offered, among other things, that the apartment was small and that the broker and prospective buyers had not familiarized themselves with the property in great detail due to the apartment’s clutter and strong smell.
The family hadn’t missed a man either. Today’s News according to the police called the deceased’s daughter right after the body was found. The daughter hadn’t missed her father, so to speak.
“The last time we saw each other was about 20 years ago,” the daughter tells the magazine.
The incident According to Dagens Nyheter, the mystery is also explained by the fact that the dead man used to pay the bills a year in advance.
The daughter interviewed by the newspaper wonders why no one had paid attention to the deceased before. The daughter has also sought information from the authorities about where the property left by the father has ended up.
A similar incident has also been written about in Finland. Editor of Helsingin Sanomat Ilkka Malmberg wrote in November 2000 About the “Maunula mummy”, that is, a man found in an apartment building in Maunula, who had been lying dead for more than six years. Malmberg found out his life story.
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