# "Wallander" and Dorus Rijkers

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**Created:** [January 11, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallander-and-dorus-rijkers/806433 "2018-01-11T23:20:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallander-and-dorus-rijkers/806433/1 "2018-01-11T23:20:22Z")

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I just watched a couple of episodes of “Wallander” and a detail in the set caught my eye: In the very sparsely decorated police station Kurt has a likeness of [Dorus Rijkers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorus_Rijkers) on the wall.  
Why?

Did someone creating the set just liked the[image](http://www.wilhelmina.org/nieuwbouw/files/2013/11/dorus-225x300.jpg)?  
Or is there a reason a British whodunnit set in Sweden has an image of a Dutch folk hero prominently in the protagonist’s office?