M/V Estonia

What happened to M/V Estonia?

Robert Barestrand knows who murdered Olof Palme, and how it went down. But during the research process, it also turned out that he had information of what happened to M/V Estonia. On this page, we publicize the text about the happening, written by one of Roberts’ colleagues.

The Casualty
As soon as the scale of the disaster was known, questions immediately were piled upon one another. Quite soon it was clear that something exceptional had occurred. And which is furthermore important, explanations from persons whom by no means had the competence to place a judgement, flourished. Here Carl Bildt is a notable example, but he was by no means alone regarding this.

The Joint Accident Investigation Committee, the J.A.I.C.
Just by establishing such a venture, all common procedures handling disasters of such a magnitude were neglected. On the contrary, the common procedure stipulates, that all such cases should be handled by the judicial system. Prosecutors and professional interrogators are tasked with handling cases of such nature. This includes, naturally, interrogation of survivors as well as technical issues such as the vessels construction. None of this was managed in a proper way by the J.A.I.C. Instead a group of expertise was assigned that did little more than speculate, mishandle of survivors accounts and pure falsifications.

Further along it will be shown what the official investigation neglected. In summary, this is in respect to testimonies of survivors and the course of the fatality. Furthermore it should be mentioned that several discrepancies occurred in connection with the disaster, whether it is off importance or not. Statements from Survivors and the Lapse of Events There is no doubt that individuals residing i cabins beneath the car deck were awoken by flushing water from underneath, i.e. not from the above located car deck. This is emphasised by the fact that survivors from below the car deck are overly represented in comparison to the total number of survivors. A conclusion hereby can then be drawn, that individuals residing on deck one (below the car deck) had a preemptive warning that something was out of the ordinary.

Several of the survivors also reported that after the big heel, which literally threw people around as kegs, an uprighting began that put the vessel in a normal upright position. Thereafter, the vessel again slowly tilted over to ultimately be submerged.

Conclusions
There is no doubt that circumstances surrounding the casualty were neglected by the official investigation. The treatment of survivors is nothing short of shameful. Hopefully there exists the possibility to find a clear lapse that is acceptable to the general public. As the situation is now, there are only questions, but no clear answers.