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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Couple who ran Swedish eco-resort say 158 barrels of human waste left behind was ‘very normal’

Flemming Hansen with his arm around Mette Helbæk
Mette Helbæk and Flemming Hansen accused the journalists behind the investigation of lying and causing ‘our life’s biggest (literal!) shitstorm’. Photograph: instagram

A Danish couple who fled their “forest resort” in Sweden for Guatemala and left behind a large tax debt and 158 barrels of human waste have hit back at criticism and claimed that their handling of the compost toilets was “very normal”.

Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk, both chefs, abandoned their purportedly eco-friendly retreat, Stedsans, in Halland, southern Sweden, last year. They owed large sums to Swedish and Danish tax authorities. They have since set up a business in Guatemala.

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