Voldtægtssag on television: Who speaks the truth?

Kirstine Holst and Jon Kiellberg were friends until 17. august 2017.

the Page has a voldtægtsanmeldelse and subsequent trial half a year later changed everything. The case ended with Jon Kiellberg was acquitted for voldtægtsbeskyldningerne. And so you would think that the case was over.

It wasn't.

For her started a showdown against a police and legal system, which, according to Kirstine Holst featured on failures and errors. As frontman for Amnesty International's campaign for a new samtykkebaseret voldtægtslovgivning she was a voice in the debate.

Kirstine Holst got the needs for psychological support after participating in the tv confrontation, she says to Ekstra Bladet. Photo: TV2

The two meet in the evening in the TV2 programme the Perpetrator or the victim. For the first time since the trial. Here goes Jon Kiellberg to asseverate his innocence, while Kirstine Holst not got it out of the meeting, as she had hoped.

- After I have seen the program, I have recognized that I should not have asked about the confrontation. It was very violent, and I was deeply affected by it for many days after. I was struck by feelings such as anxiety, desire to escape, anger and frustration, says Kirstine Holst to Ekstra Bladet.

- I had hoped that there was balance. That I would experience remorse from his side. Or a bit of regret. But it was there at all, not at all.

For Jon Kiellberg however, meant the confrontation into something else.

Jon Kiellberg have the court's word that he is not guilty of rape. Photo: TV2

We are miles away from each other, and I'm furious that she has udskammet me now for soon three years. But there are some pages by the Author, I liked. And it surprised me, when we met face to face, that I was reminded of the pages, says Jon Kiellberg to Ekstra Bladet.

the Copenhagen city Court dismissed the action Jon Kiellberg on the grounds that it is not with sufficient certainty was proven that he had raped Kirstine Holst.

But there were never taken a position on whether it was Jon Kiellberg or Kirstine holst's description of the incident, that it was right.

the Parties agreed on the initial part. Kirstine Holst had been a political arrangement in Copenhagen, after which she would visit and spend the night with his friend Jon Kiellberg. The sown really most of the summer, when they organized debates at the people meeting on Bornholm. But the evening was the conversations more personal and intimate.

As Kirstine Holst decided to go to bed, something happened, that ended up being the centre of the trial.

Kirstine Holst remembers that Jon Kiellberg took the initiative to have sexual intercourse, even if she did not want and said stop. However, according to Kirstine Holst stopped Jon Kiellberg not.

- I try to talk to him, to the Jon I know, but he is not there, says Kirstine Holst.

instead, he, according to her, the arm around her neck and tiltvang themselves sexual intercourse, all the while he squeezed hard on her breast.

But Jon Kiellberg perceived the situation differently, it emerged during the trial.

- There were clear signals about what we were going to do, " says Jon Kiellberg in the TV2 programme.

According to him had Kirstine Holst even asked if she had to lay down in his bed. The sexual intercourse included, according to him, that they lay face to face, and mutually kissed each other, cuddled each other in the hair and that they took hold of each other's nipples.