Firefighter warned after sexual harassment - Rescue chief: "Unacceptable"

During the spring, it emerged that a firefighter at the rescue service in Jönköping subjected a woman to sexual abuse. According to information to SVT, it should be about, among other things, that the man asked to touch the woman's breast, and made rough comments that allude to sex.

An external investigation into the events was carried out, which concluded that the woman has been subjected to sexual harassment and abusive discrimination.

"A failure"

The investigation also points out that there are clear signs of jargon and jokes that negatively affect the work environment and may have been a contributing factor to the woman being subjected to harassment.

According to Samuel Nyström, the emergency services have worked a lot with exercises to prevent situations like this.

- It is both a failure and a big disappointment on my part, he says.

Is there anything you could have done differently?

- Perhaps we could have been more responsive, he replies.

Samuel Nyström has ordered another investigation where the municipal health department must map the working environment at the emergency services in order to take the right measures.

"Awesome Jargon"

He also believes that the emergency services in Jönköping have made a journey compared to how the jargon used to be.

- In the past, the jargon was really sloppy, downright crass, but I didn't know it was this way now, says Samuel Nyström.

SVT has been in contact with the woman, who does not want to comment on the events. SVT has also searched for the man without success. The investigation shows that he denies the violations.