Man Sentenced to 16 Years
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Man Sentenced to 16 Years for Shooting at Police Officers

Several shots were fired at five police officers during an operation against a residence outside Karlshamn in March. Now the court of appeal also sentences the man who shot to prison for 16 years.

The Court of Appeal upholds the district court's judgment, which, among other things, concerned attempted murder. The man shot at four police officers and threatened a fifth with a pistol. He was then himself hit by a shot from the police and injured in the shoulder.

"What is primarily aggravating in this case is that the act was directed against several police officers on duty and that several shots were fired at them at close range," says Court of Appeal Judge Fredrik Landgren in a press release from the Court of Appeal for Skåne and Blekinge.

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