Sweden: Announces plan to fight mafia and violent gangs

To combat the serious problems it faces with mafia and violent gangs, the Sweden announced on Friday (28/1) a plan to reduce the sentence for repentant criminals who will cooperate in the police and justice investigations.

THE Social Democrat Justice Minister Morgan Johansson introduced a bill for “key witnesses” aimed at “breaking the culture of silence” in the gangs involved in an outbreak of bloodshed to clear accounts in recent years.

The system provides for reduced sentences when a defendant contributes to other investigations “in order to benefit from cooperating with the police”, he explained during a press conference.

Today at Sweden, criminals and criminals can see their sentences reduced if they work with investigators in their own case, but not by helping to arrest others.

The law also proposes heavier penalties for intimidating witnesses and obstructing the work of investigators. “Those who attack the complainants and the witnesses are not only attacking them, but also the judiciary as a whole,” he said. Johansson.

In recent years the Sweden, which is known to be a peaceful country, was faced with a wave of incidents to clear accounts and bloody shootings attributed to mafia gangs.

In 2021 in 346 shooting incidents 46 people were killed in the country, according to the police, ranking the Sweden between its countries Of Europe with the most homicides by gunfire.

In October the murder in a wealthy neighborhood Stockholm one of the most famous young rappers in the country, the 19-year-old ‘Ειναρ, gave an international impact to the phenomenon.

Most of the victims are young people from notorious neighborhoods in major Swedish cities.

The government proposal, influenced by measures taken in Norway and in Denmark, was included in a list of proposals presented in 2019 in an effort to address the problem, which has been announced in advance as one of the topics of the September parliamentary election campaign.

The Social Democrat government, accused of tackling the problem, had already passed a bill last summer to toughen sentences for young criminals between the ages of 18 and 20. Other proposals are expected to be presented in the coming months, he said Johansson.

Source: News Beast

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