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Russia Today \u2013 Dec 27, 2018<\/h1>\n
\"People<\/a>

People from Maren Ueland’s hometown walk in a torch-lit march to honor Maren Ueland from Norway and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen from Denmark. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Swedish state broadcaster SVT has come under fire for what some viewers are calling an effort to downplay the horrendous details of the murders of two Scandinavian backpackers in Morocco last week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway were killed while backpacking<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in Morocco\u2019s High Atlas mountains. While both girls were stabbed multiple times, one of them was also beheaded on camera, shown in a video that has spread like wildfire around social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Previously recorded footage, which was authenticated by investigators, also shows the suspects in the brutal double murder pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, further confirming that the murders were an act of terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Memorial<\/a>

Memorial to the slain backpackers at Danish embassy. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

On Christmas Eve, the national public broadcaster in Sweden aired a report<\/a><\/strong><\/span> about the barbaric killings, but chose not to focus on the actual details of the crime or the now-established links to Islamic terrorism. The SVT report made no mention of the fact that one of the young women was beheaded, said nothing about the ISIS link and simply referred to \u201cknife damage<\/em>\u201d on the woman\u2019s neck.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bizarrely, the report focused almost entirely on how it is a punishable offence to share the disturbing video. Written reports on SVT\u2019s website did mention<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the fact that the murders have been linked to Islamic terrorism, but that fact was nowhere to be found in its strange Christmas Eve report.<\/span><\/p>\n

The odd angle taken by SVT prompted suggestions from viewers that the broadcaster seemed to be more worried about the possibility of the video spreading further than the actual murders themselves \u2013 and annoyed viewers quickly took to social media to denounce what they said was a case of the media being overly concerned with political correctness.<\/span><\/p>\n

One person noted that there was a significant difference<\/a><\/strong><\/span> between how SVT covered the 2015 Trollh\u00e4ttan school attack, in which the Swedish perpetrator had been motivated by racism and chose a school in an area with a high immigrant population to commit his murders. While in that case, SVT recounted \u201cminute by minute<\/em>\u201d what the killer did, publishing graphics and detailed information, in the case of the Scandinavian girls, the coverage was far more vague.<\/span><\/p>\n

One Twitter user wrote that at first he thought the use of the phrase \u201cknife damage<\/em>\u201d instead of \u2018beheaded<\/em>\u2019 or \u2018decapitated<\/em>\u2019 was just some kind of unfortunate formulation<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of words until he realized the channel had repeated the phrase more than once.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI myself would never watch such a film, let alone share it. But now we are more upset about the crime of proliferation than the crime of beheading<\/em>,\u201d another user wrote<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, denouncing overly \u201cPC<\/em>\u201d people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Naiv som jag \u00e4r (ibland) s\u00e5 trodde jag att @svt<\/a>, n\u00e4r de skrev om "knivskador" p\u00e5 text-tv, endast lyckats med en tankl\u00f6s och olycklig formulering. Men samma ord upprepas allts\u00e5 om och om igen n\u00e4r de rapporterar om de brutala terrormorden i Marocko. Absurt!#medpol<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/3RFyz2LnXb<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mattias Albinsson (@mattiasreporter) December 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n