The Sweden Democrats (SD) have submitted a parliamentary motion for special legislation against gang criminals.
Who should be labeled as "gang criminals" needs to be investigated first, according to Adam Marttinen (SD), a member of the Justice Committee.
The police have estimated that there are 14,000 active individuals in criminal networks. However, according to Marttinen, it is not sufficient from a legal security perspective to only rely on the police's list.
Then you might need to narrow it down further, for example, by requiring that they have committed a certain number of crimes and are part of a specific environment, he says.
43 proposals
The motion proposes 43 measures. Among other things, it suggests evening curfews, mandatory electronic tagging, and the possibility for the police to detain gang criminals in a preventive manner. The prison standard is proposed to be as low as possible.
The motion also proposes business bans, extended account monitoring, prohibition on withdrawing cash abroad, association bans, and prohibition on working in socially sensitive occupations and in political parties.
According to the SD, gang criminals' property should be able to be seized on the spot if they do not have a taxed income and cannot reasonably prove that they acquired the property legally.
The idea is that the special legislation should make it so difficult and unbearable to be a gang criminal that they themselves seek out exit programs. These programs should, according to the SD, be very tough and demanding, and include, among other things, mandatory discipline training.
Also relatives
For young gang criminals who have turned 15, it is proposed that they be moved from school to a correctional institution where "military discipline" prevails and the days are spent working. Gang criminals under 15 should be moved to compulsory schools with "hard discipline".
According to the motion, courts should, in the most serious cases of gang criminality, such as when a boy has murdered several people, have the option to sentence 15-year-olds to life imprisonment.
The SD also wants measures to be taken against relatives of gang criminals. For example, prohibition on working in socially sensitive occupations. It is also proposed that fingerprints should be taken from relatives and the requirements for secret surveillance of them should be lowered. Being a relative of a gang criminal should also weigh heavily in the assessment of an unsatisfactory lifestyle in migration cases.
