On Monday afternoon, Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer (M) and Social Minister Jakob Forssmed (KD) held a press conference together with the government's special investigator Anders Hübinette.
Hübinette was given the task in December 2023 to investigate what measures should be taken to address the violence, disturbances, and disorder at the arenas in the men's top division in football.
Coming next year
Already on Sunday, Hübinette wrote on DN Debatt about the rough outlines of the proposals. They generally consist of greater opportunities to share camera material and personal data, as well as tightening of the Public Order Act and the Act on Ban on Entry. Among other things, a special penalty scale for gross pyrotechnic offenses with imprisonment for at least six months and up to two years is proposed. Furthermore, it is proposed that the ban on entry should apply for at least one year and not just six months.
Next, the legislative proposals will be sent out for consultation to various stakeholders before they can be decided by the government. The ambition is for them to come into force on July 1, 2026.
"Good prognosis"
The proposals have a good prognosis, as they say. But we will take this consultation process very seriously, says Strömmer and continues:
We will make sure to have a dialogue with the affected parties, but it cannot become a process where everyone backs down because they think that different parts are more or less comfortable. Now we have a golden opportunity to move forward significantly in the interaction between, on the one hand, legislation and, on the other hand, organizers, clubs, supporters, civil society, and authorities.
