Kim Wall was a Swedish freelance journalist who traveled the world from her home and worked for various publishing houses such as The Guardian, The New York Times, Slate, and Time.
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Wiki/Biography
Kim Wall was born on 22 March 1987 (age 30 years at death) in Trelleborg, Scania, Sweden. His zodiac sign is Aries. Kim Wall completed her schooling in Malmö, Sweden and earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Additionally, he attended Columbia University in New York City and obtained a dual master’s degree in Journalism and International Relations.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 5″
Eye colour: black
Hair Colour: Golden Brown
Family and ethnicity
parents and siblings
Kim Wall’s father’s name is Joachim Wall and her mother’s name is Ingrid Wall. Kim has a younger brother, Tom Wall.
Friend
At the time of her death, Kim Wall was in a relationship with Ole Stobbe, a game and interaction designer. The couple were living in Copenhagen, Denmark and had planned to move to Beijing to start a new life.
livelihood
After completing her degree from Columbia University, Kim Wall decided to work as a freelance journalist and traveled the world covering a variety of stories from Uganda to Cuba to New York City. Her work specialized in the fields of identity, gender or subculture. He also wrote many stories on the subjects of social injustice. He has written articles on underground Internet providers in Cuba that download information to people at a price for Harper’s Magazine, about a couple living alone on a small island for The Guardian, and about Shanghai Disneyland for Time. Wrote articles about.
Kim Wall during one of her trips to cover a story
Death
On August 10, 2017, Kim was preparing for her farewell party with her Danish designer boyfriend, Ole Stobbe, when she received a text message from Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen, who invited her to interview him on his self-built submarine UC3 Nautilus. Invited for. Wall decided to leave the party for two hours and joined their submarine; However, the submarine never returned to port and Stobbe decided to file a missing person’s report about Kim. The next morning, the submarine was sighted in Coogee Bay near the Drogden lighthouse. Police arrested Peter Madsen when the submarine was found on 11 August 2017 and he did not say anything about Kim Wall’s whereabouts. On 21 August 2017, a cyclist reported that Kim Wall’s torso had washed up on a beach in the south-west region of Amager. The post-mortem examination report revealed that he had been stabbed 15 times in the torso, mostly in the waist. On 6 October, Swedish police conducted a search operation with police divers, which found two plastic bags in Kågge Bay containing Wall’s head, legs, clothes and a knife.
Peter Madsen going inside a police car after his arrest
After his arrest, Peter Madsen gave a statement stating that he had abandoned Kim Wall on land, but then admitted that he had thrown her body into the ocean after she died in an accident while on board a submarine. Had thrown in. Later, throughout the trial, he changed his statements several times and said that she died due to head injuries and then said that she died due to toxic fumes which may have entered the submarine. The post-mortem report did not find any indication of head injury or presence of poisonous smoke in his lungs. On 16 January 2018, Peter Madsen was charged with murder, indecency with a corpse and sexual assault, and on 25 April 2018, he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Police and coroner are taking Kim Wall’s torso to the hospital
Facts/General Knowledge
- In 2016, Kim Wall was awarded the Hansel Mieth Award for Best Digital Report for “Exodus”, a media report on climate change and nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands.
- Kim Wall’s family and friends started a funding program, the Kim Wall Memorial Fund, in her memory to fund female journalists working to cover important and poignant stories. Every year on August 11, Kim Wall’s parents and the fund organize a memorial run where they ask people to run or walk a few kilometers in Kim Wall’s honor.
People taking part in the ‘Run for Kim’ memorial run in Trelleborg, Sweden
- In October 2017, Kim Wall was nominated for Prix Europa’s outstanding achievement award “Journalist of the Year”.
- On November 9, 2018, Kim Wall’s parents published a book in her memory titled “Boken om Kim Wall: Naar orden tar Slut”. Later, in 2020, the book was translated into English by Kathy Saranpa. The name of the book was ‘A Silenced Voice’.
The book ‘A Silenced Voice’ is written by Kim’s parents and translated by Kathy Sarnpa
- A six-part Danish television series titled Efterforskningen (The Investigation) premiered on 28 September 2020. The series was created by Tobias Lindholm and follows the criminal investigation of the case. The show does not feature Madsen or the crime, but instead shows the work done by investigating officers that led to the conviction of Peter Madsen. Later, it was released on the UK’s BBC Two and HBO started showing it on 1 February 2021.
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Source: vcmp.edu.vn