SWEDEN The former so-called “resistance” leader Viktor Melin is under arrest suspected of having adapted and detonated explosives targeting refugees and political opponents in Gothenburg, Sweden. During one of Melin’s interrogations with Säpo, the interrogator asks why the suspect is missing a finger-whereupon Viktor Melin replies that he chopped his finger with an axe, deliberately.

The reason was a relapse in his personal struggle against porn addiction. In the interrogation, Viktor Melin states that Säpo is the only ones he has entrusted and told the truth to. He lied to his comrades and activists in the Nordic Resistance Movement, and said that he lost his finger in an accident.

FL1: I think I learn more when I’m talking to people, actually.

VM: Yes, you actually do. You’re right about that.

FL1: Speaking of which; what happened to your finger?

VM: My finger?

FL1: Yes.

VM: No, I chopped it with an axe.

FL1: Why did you do that?

VM: What? Why? (Laughs, FL’s note)

FL1: Yes.

VM: Yes, it was, oh, there are. Yes, you probably have my axe now. And the blood on the toolbar. But…

FL1: Was it a mistake or was it on purpose? That’s really my question.

VM: Yes, it’s just as good to be honest. It was actually on purpose then.

FL1: Mm. Do you want to share the reason for that?

VM: Yes, it was that I had, I had an addiction. And then I promised myself that if I fell back into it I would cut off one of my fingers. Or one of my fingers. And I did it for a while now and then, yes, then, I stopped doing it again and then I completed it so as to show that I will never relapse again.

FL1: You are very hard on yourself.

VM: Yes. But that’s good, because then I can remind myself that I will not fall back into it. Then, but you’re the first I say this to – because, yes, maybe it sounds a bit sick in someone else’s eyes, and back then I told people it was an accident. But if you do not think it’s related to what I’m suspect for, I think it’s best to be honest.

FL1: It’s good that you’re honest but I still think you’re very hard against yourself.

VM: Yes. Well, yes, yes, anyway. I felt tormented for a while now and then I felt that when I got a relapse, I felt that I made myself that promise, and then I felt that it would be the last of it [the porn addiction] after that. Once for all.

FL1: Mm. I understand the idea though.

VM: Yes, yes. But it might be good to be hard on yourself too.

FL1: To a certain degree, maybe.

FL2: But you have a finger left at least.

VM: Yes. That will be enough. I can handle it without it.

FL1: It’s quite recent, or?

VM: Yes it was this weekend.

FL2: What was addiction?

VM: Eh, pornography.

FL1: Online, or?

VM: Mm. Exactly.

FL1: It’s an addiction just like anything else.

VM: Yes, yes, sir. It certainly is.

FL1: But you can get help with that too.

VM: Yes, yes. But I’ve done it myself. I managed to end it for a while. So I can do that again.

FL1: Extremely easy to fall back when you’re exposed to the Internet all the time.

VM: Yes, yes, I know. That’s what I did. But you have to know that you are addicted. You should not get exposed to it.

FL1: no.

VM: Again.

FL1: I hope you can handle it.

VM: Yes, I will.