As recently as last week, the Supreme Court rejected Nordquist's request to obtain riot images from Rosengård taken by photographers from six Swedish editorial offices.
The images were taken during unrest that started after a Koran burning in Malmö in September 2023.
The media companies refused, citing source protection and that disclosure would threaten journalistic independence.
The Supreme Court assessed that two interests should be weighed against each other: the prosecutor's interest in conducting a preliminary investigation against the media companies' interest in not disclosing material collected for journalistic purposes.
However, since the prosecutor had not specified which concrete crimes the preliminary investigation concerned, the Supreme Court considered that no balancing could be done.
According to P4 Malmöhus, Nordquist's new request is more concretized in terms of time and place, as well as what the evidence is intended to contribute to.
