The case on which the Supreme Court is ruling concerns three explosions in Hässelby, Linköping and Fullerö at the end of September 2023. The bombs caused great devastation and several people were injured. In the attack in Fullerö outside Uppsala, a 24-year-old woman was injured so severely that she died.
The Supreme Court is now showing how the punishment for such crimes should be increased if it happened in a public place – and if the use of explosives was based on a criminal conflict. This is done based on a new provision in the law that was introduced in 2023, to increase the punishment for "gang crimes".
According to the Supreme Court, the provision should "have a clear impact" on the penalty, and the ruling shows that it should involve several extra years if the criteria are met.
For a man convicted of making two of the bombs, both acts would be considered to carry a sentence of nine years each under the new provision – compared to six years without it. The sentence for his total crime would be 14 years, just over two years more than in the Court of Appeal.
Another man, who placed bombs, receives life imprisonment instead of 18 years in the Court of Appeal.
The act is linked to the conflict within the Foxtrot network in 2023.
