Social Democrats Push to Ban Violent Activist Clubs in Sweden

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Social Democrats Push to Ban Violent Activist Clubs in Sweden
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The Social Democratic Party wants to ban clubs that engage in "violence or other ideologically violent activities" and believes that the government is passive, writes Dagens Nyheter. Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (The Moderate Party) says in turn that the Social Democratic Party has delayed the government.

We are four years behind the curve here, we could have had this legislation in place, says Strömmer.

The Social Democrats think that the government is not doing enough while, for example, the Nazi Activklubb Sverige is building up a violence capital.

The government must stop turning a blind eye and make the legislative changes required to dissolve and stop these clubs, says the party's law policy spokesperson Teresa Carvalho to DN.

Concretely, the S would like to modernize the legislation from 1934 that prohibits unlawful corps activities.

Strömmer does not oppose this. But means that violence-advocating environments like the activist clubs already fall under the ongoing investigation into criminalizing participation in criminal networks.

There is a legislative work in progress, unfortunately four years delayed, since it was not possible to get a majority for it earlier, says Strömmer.

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