The Prime Minister also states that he wants to see if the European Convention can be changed so that more criminals can be deported.
It was the Court of Appeal for Upper Norrland that in September sentenced an 18-year-old refugee from Eritrea to three years in prison for rape of a then 16-year-old girl in a pedestrian tunnel in Skellefteå in September 2024.
However, the Court of Appeal did not consider that the man should be deported.
The case has received increasing media attention in recent weeks. The rape victim herself came forward in the media in mid-October. The news then spread internationally on social media around the world. Elon Musk commented on one of the posts on his platform X with the word "crazy".
Last Friday, Migration Minister Johan Forssell (The Moderate Party) commented on the case in the magazine Kvartal.
Wrote a letter
Kristersson is not the first EU head of government who wants to see changes in the European Convention so that individuals who are convicted of serious crimes can be deported even if they have refugee status.
In the spring, the leaders of nine EU countries wrote an open letter about wanting to make it easier to deport criminal foreign citizens. Among the leaders were the Prime Ministers of Italy, Poland, and Denmark. Kristersson was not one of them, which was criticized by The Sweden Democrats. According to information to TT, it was The Liberals and the Christian Democrats who did not want the Prime Minister to sign the letter.
Migration Minister Forssell stated, however, in the media that The Moderate Party was positive to the content of the letter.
Received criticism
On the occasion of the letter, the Council of Europe urged the European countries not to undermine the European Convention and its protection of human rights.
The government has put forward proposals that will make it easier to deport criminals who have committed crimes. They are expected to come into force next year and are considered to go as far as international conventions allow.
Kristersson and The Moderate Party now believe that they need to go a step further and review the conventions.
The Moderate Party made the decision at its party conference to work towards "a review of relevant EU legislation and conventions being carried out with the aim of achieving minimal asylum immigration".
