STOCKHOLM - Peter Danowsky, legal counselor for the Swedish tabloid newspaper Expressen, has now replied to Marie Fredriksson's claim against the paper.

  The tabloid, writes the counselor, has not written that Marie is a criminal, or blameworthy. "Nor defamed, abusively treated or [subjected her to] any other outrageous treatment."

  "Expressen doesn't seem to have read my summons especially carefully," Leif Silbersky, Marie's lawyer, says to the competing newspaper Aftonbladet. "The grounds for my demands are that persons in Marie's vicinity experienced Marie as untruthful," Silbersky continues. "Marie got scared as well, and thought the doctors were deceiving her, while at the same time giving the truth to the media."

  Silbersky also points out that Sjöberg [Expressen's Editor-in-Chief] at first claimed that Expressen's information was correct, and then suddenly turned around and admitted that it was wrong publishing it.

• Aftonbladet's story (In Swedish)