Sweden: Shopkeeper pays price for bomber CCTV footage

According to the Scottish newspaper "The Scotsman", a shopkeeper who handed police video footage of the Stockholm suicide bombing says he will think twice before helping authorities again after being ordered to dismantle his CCTV cameras for lacking the right permit.

Naresh Lakhwani owns a watch store in the shopping district where the bomber blew himself up and injured two people on 11 December. Mr Lakhwani said security cameras he had installed outside the store caught the bomber before the explosion and he didn't hesitate to hand it over to police. He said investigators were grateful for the tape, but that didn't stop the city Administrative Board, which handles permits for security cameras, taking action. A legal expert at the board, Cecilia Forssell, said it ordered Mr Lakhwani to remove the equipment after complaints from people who saw the surveillance video in Swedish media. "They could have handled this a bit differently," Mr Lakhwani said.