The reporter has also been charged, as has the head of news on duty that day.
Purchasing the pistol was intended to show readers how simple it is to get hold of illegal weapons in Malmö, as part of the newspaper‘s reporting on the hunt for the serial shooter then on the loose in Sweden‘s third largest city.
It took Expressen five hours to get hold of their weapon, a 7.65 millimetre Crvena Zastava pistol.