In March last year, police began looking into allegations that Koopu had abused his former wife, but that investigation closed after one month, Sm\u00e5landsposten reported.<\/p>\n
Two months before the June 13 attack, a \u201creport of concern\u201d was sent to Alvesta municipality.<\/p>\n
The report said one of the two girls was afraid of her father and of what would happen when he learned her mother had started dating someone else.<\/p>\n
Social services told the mother that Koopu had the right to see the report in full. Shortly afterwards, she applied for support and protection for her family.<\/p>\n
Maui Koopu lived in Alvesta, Sweden before he and his wife, with whom he shared two daughters, separated.<\/p>\n
According to Sm\u00e5landsposten, she told social services Koopu had \u201ctalked about taking revenge\u201d if she met someone new.<\/p>\n
She asked that the relationship not be disclosed to him until protection had been arranged for the family.<\/p>\n
Social services reportedly decided against taking emergency measures because Koopu \u201cdid not know about the new relationship yet\u201d.<\/p>\n
They decided to carry out safety planning before telling him.<\/p>\n
But no protection plan was completed before Koopu, his former wife and caseworkers met at the social services office on the Monday before the attack.<\/p>\n
Social workers one floor above reportedly heard a roar from the meeting room.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, Koopu was advised to contact a family violence service. No other support for him was recorded, and there was still no plan for protection.<\/p>\n
The next day, social services asked the mother to clarify or withdraw her application for support. The investigation was then closed.<\/p>\n
The couple\u2019s divorce was finalised on June 11, two days before the attack. Divorce papers confirmed they had been living apart for more than two years, meeting the criteria for a divorce judgment.<\/p>\n
Koopu attended his daughters\u2019 end-of-year school ceremony the following day and was left alone with them.<\/p>\n
At 10.57am on June 13, emergency services were alerted to the attack in the small village of Lekaryd.<\/p>\n
The review found the shortcomings within social services had led to domestic violence cases being inadequately handled.<\/p>\n
It also concluded the problems were so extensive that similar incidents could happen again.<\/p>\n
There have been no recent public updates on the girls\u2019 conditions.<\/p>\n
When approached by the Herald earlier this year, Swedish police could not provide further information while investigations continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In March last year, police began looking into allegations that Koopu had abused his former wife, but that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1763,9218,4058,9539,4731,90934,179274,2209,42,241934,20555,117,43,69,1118,520,7819,5778,1961,6859,40,38,41,39,1455],"class_list":["post-643593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-article","tag-before","tag-contains","tag-content","tag-days","tag-disturbing","tag-exwifes","tag-father","tag-headlines","tag-koopu","tag-maui","tag-new","tag-news","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-relationship","tag-shooting","tag-sweden","tag-this","tag-told","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}