[Nettime-bold] (Fwd) Swedish media blush as reporters caught pants down

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

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Swedish media blush as reporters caught pants down

  
STOCKHOLM, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Swedish newspapers were blushing on Friday 
after it emerged that "peacekeeping soldiers" they accused of engaging in 
illegal encounters with prostitutes in the Balkans were in fact Swedish 
newspaper journalists. 

Sensationalist tabloids had a field day last autumn with reports that Swedish 
soldiers on assignment in former Yugoslavia had competed to couple with the 
greatest number of prostitutes. 

Under Swedish law buying sex is a crime and the media last year described the 
soldiers' behaviour as offensive and humiliating for the women involved. The 
army launched a formal investigation into the reports. 

Angered by the negative publicity, the military career officers' trade union 
released a statement saying the inquiry had identified the perpetrators as 
professional journalists serving as the peacekeeping unit's press officers. 

They were usually employed by Swedish regional newspapers, the union told 
Reuters. Sweden's peacekeeping units routinely consist of both career 
officers and volunteer reservists. 

According to reports of the scandal, the men had used rubber stamps of their 
own names to mark with ink the upper thighs of the females they bedded. They 
then compared photographs of the imprints to decide who had won the contest. 

11:23 09-07-01

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