Comment by impossiblefork

Could it be that the problem is actually prosecutorial discretion?

In Sweden we have something called an absolute duty to prosecute, which means that for most crimes, if there's evidence and enough to get a conviction, the prosecutor has an actual absolutely duty to prosecute.

So if this had happened here, I could report this to the police as 'unapproved intelligence activity against a person' and the prosecutor would have to, provided that there's enough evidence, prosecute the person for this.

Prosecutors here do have a love of dismissing things due to lack of evidence though.