In the letter, the father writes that he wants to meet face to face with the prime minister and ask, “How can you give just 12 months for a murder?” P4 Jönköping reports, having seen the letter.
“So, Mette Frederiksen, I am waiting for you and for a response from your office,” the father writes in the letter, continuing:
“I’m waiting for you to have the courage to come back.”
On Friday afternoon, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s office said in an email to Danish broadcaster TV 2 that she had agreed to meet with the father.
“It was a completely senseless attack that ended in the most tragic way. One year for taking another person’s life. That is not acceptable. Assault cases of ordinary severity that result in death, where the perpetrator has previously been convicted of a crime against the person, should be punished much more severely,” reads a written quote from the prime minister.
The Swedish man was punched during a World Cup event at Islands Brygge in Copenhagen in July.
The man who delivered the fatal punch was sentenced to one year in prison. However, he was not convicted of murder but of a lesser violent crime, and therefore received a lighter sentence.
Danish politicians have criticized the sentence, which they consider unacceptably low.
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