The reason is that they have made a decision that the Skåne municipality will not accept quota refugees, writes the Prosecution Authority in a press release.
The prosecutor motivates the indictment by stating that municipalities are required by law to accept newly arrived refugees for settlement in the municipality after referral.
The politicians who are being prosecuted are those who participated in the vote in the Staffanstorp municipal council without reserving themselves.
”The crime is to be considered gross as the defendants have seriously abused their position as municipal politicians. It has also had consequences for both individual individuals and the general public”, says Deputy Chief Prosecutor Magdalena Petersson in the press release.
According to the prosecutor, there are no previous judgments in the area.
The defendants deny the crime.
It was in March 2022 that the Skåne municipality made its decision not to accept quota refugees, citing that refugees from war-torn Ukraine would be prioritized.
Thereafter, the municipality refused to accept four quota refugees who had just arrived and they were instead referred to another municipality.
Later the same year, the decision on quota refugees was repealed.
