The Swedish Police Service, called Polisen in Swedish, was a relatively small force of less than 30,000 employees, under the Ministry of Justice. The elite unit, Piketen, was set up to be deployed as an emergency response team for crisis management. When David arrived at the headquarters of the Stockholm police the chief was already waiting for him after being alerted by Umberto. He had been given the cover story that a "dirty bomb" may be in the hands of extreme nationalists and that there was a strong involvement of local Swedish street gangs. The chief told David that Andreas was someone that the Polisen had been trying to convict unsuccessfully for some time and had a thick file on him and his street gang. They did not mourn his gruesome death and believed that he had got what he deserved. He said that he had assigned a Piketen squad to help David in this investigation and introduced the squad leader as Jorgen. David and Jorgen hit it off immediately recognizing each other's combat experience and training and together devised an operational plan.
David and Jorgen left the police headquarters in an unmarked car followed by two other unmarked cars with six of the elite unit fighters. They went straight to Andreas's apartment quickly neutralized the bodyguards who had been busy playing cards and entered the apartment. They found Alva sleeping in the master bedroom and when they woke her up she was completely disorientated probably as a result of too much alcohol still in her system. When they asked her about Andreas she swore that she had not seen him or even heard from him since he left Stockholm a week earlier and was quite upset that he hadn't even called her. She said that he usually was not absent for more than a couple of days but this time was different as he appeared to be very excited before leaving. She said she did not know where he was but suspected that he had gone to Italy once again. She added that he never told her where he went but she figured out it was to Italy as he had returned from his recent trips with Chianti bottles and Parma sausages that they devoured together.
David showed her the gory photographs of Andreas's body and told her about the way he was slaughtered with a serrated knife. Alva broke into tears and said that Andreas was her true love and she would do anything to help find his murderer. David told her that they suspected a colleague of his and showed her the photo image of the mysterious blond man. Seeing the image of what had to be Ollie's familiar face Alva flew into a rage and between sobs started swearing and cursing and told them everything she knew about Ollie and how he had become Andreas's closest friend. She said that the two of them had travelled together frequently and that Ollie was probably overseeing some big project she knew nothing about except that it involved many people from other countries. She said that her twin sister, Agda, had had an affair with Ollie and perhaps she would know more about him, and offered to call Agda and ask her to come over to the apartment.
When Agda arrived, Alva went to her and tearfully showed her the photos of Andreas's body and told her that Ollie was the prime suspect of the ruthless murderer. Agda also burst out crying and sniveling through her tears said she hated the Polisen but would do anything to help bring Ollie to justice. She told them everything she knew about Ollie — that his full name was Olaf Gunther Andersson and that he grew up in Malme where he was assaulted by Muslims which explained his hatred of all foreigners and particularly Muslims. She also told them that they had been lovers and that Ollie had taken her on a trip to Athens in January where he had some meetings with local Greeks at the marina in Piraeus. She said that she thought they were top rank officials in the Golden Dawn movement and described the place where the meeting was held. She also told them about Ollie's unexplained disappearance and then with some hesitation mentioned her affair with Niko during Ollie's absence. David and Jorgen thanked her for her cooperation and as an afterthought David asked her if she had any photographs of Ollie and Niko. She showed them her cellphone and a selfie photo of Niko and herself smiling at the camera. When she handed Jorgen her phone he downloaded this photo and then found a couple of more photos of herself with Ollie and with Niko. These, too, were downloaded.
When they all returned to the police headquarters Ollie's photo was edited with photoshop and the Polisen database was searched for matching pictures. They got several possible hits but their attention focused on a three-year old photograph of a young man that was suspected of murdering an unconscious patient in a hospital in Uppsala. Apparently the dead patient had driven a motorcycle that slammed into a car killing the suspect's newly wedded wife. The suspect, one Oscar Gunnar Axelsson, had converted to Islam and was on his way to his honeymoon when the accident took place. He had disappeared after the cyclist's body was discovered but the case was never brought to trial and the investigation was not completed so the case was left open as a possible homicide. There was no record of Oscar Gunnar Axelsson ever leaving or entering Sweden or even of his living in the country. The comparison of the three year old photograph with the current photo of Ollie showed some similarities but the confidence level of a match between the two was below 85 %.
David thanked Jorgen and the chief of police and headed to the airport where he caught a flight connecting to Tel-Aviv.
A special investigation was initiated in Uppsala in order to gather more information about the whereabouts of Oscar Gunnar Axelsson and his ties with Islam. The small Islamic community center had been transformed into a mosque, and the Muslim population of the town had increased threefold since the accident and the suspected murder of the cyclist in the University Hospital. The old man who had been the head of the community center had passed away two years previously and the police officers did not find anyone in the Muslim community that admitted to have known Oscar. However, when they checked the records at Uppsala University they found that a student with the name of Oscar Gunnar Axelsson had attended classes at the department of mechanical engineering but had left just before graduating. The police asked to see the list of his classmates and located some that still resided in Uppsala. However, only a few of them remembered Oscar at all, and none of them seemed to know anything about his present whereabouts. One of the women said that she had had a crush on him and when her husband was out of the room admitted that they had a short fling, actually a one night stand, in their second year at university but he was not interested a long term relationship with her, and to the best of her knowledge with any other student. She said that she had seen him around during their third and fourth years at the university and that he became more and more aloof towards graduation. She mentioned that she had occasionally seen him in the company of two Arab students but did not know their names.