Scandinavian societies are far more transparent than the Anglo. We'll know what happened this end quite soon.

You can't be me, I'm taken

Outright fabrications require political initiative in high places, because low-level bureaucrats are allergic to sticking their necks out like that (or they will soon cease to be bureaucrats). But exaggeration only requires that everybody knows what the boss would like to hear. So far, I'm betting that this is a case of exaggeration by the police and press based on their being suffused by the Conventional Wisdom of the Serious People.

- Jake

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