The battle over how quickly the government’s full criminal justice reform can be implemented is gaining new momentum. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service says costs could rise from SEK 24 billion to SEK 85 billion by 2045.
Swedish politicsJustice Minister Gunnar Strömmer (M) and Swedish Prison and Probation Service Director General Rikard Jermsten have been summoned to the Justice Committee (a parliamentary committee) to report on the shortage of prison places. “We are now heading towards a serious situation,” says committee chair Teresa Carvalho (S).
Swedish politicsSeveral of the Sweden Democrats’ leading representatives in the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament) are getting new assignments. There is no dissatisfaction with anyone, says the party’s outgoing group leader, Linda Lindberg.
Swedish politicsThe Social Democrats are reporting Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) to the Constitutional Committee over the handling of the SD official who is said to have spread Russian narratives.
Swedish politicsThe SD official who, according to the magazine Expo, spread pro-Russian information must be fired if the information is true, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) told Aftonbladet. SD leader Jimmie Åkesson says it is not something that "the party was aware of".
Swedish politicsThe prime minister's rivals are promising new tough measures against crime if they are allowed to form a government. Among other things, they want special laws to make life difficult for gang criminals.
Swedish politicsThe Social Democrats promise to introduce a Swedish "mafia law" if they win the election. We need to take the next step in the fight against organized crime, party leader Magdalena Andersson said at a press conference.
Swedish politicsThe Social Democrats want to introduce several measures to protect women who are victims of crime. Sweden should become the best in Europe at protecting women before violence occurs, says the party's legal policy spokesperson Teresa Carvalho at a press conference.
SwedenThe Moderates are now promising that today's sentence discount for those convicted of multiple crimes will be abolished in 2029. That is a year earlier than they said just two weeks ago.
Swedish politicsThe Social Democratic Party's electoral committee proposes three new ordinary names in the party leadership), the executive committee (VU). Two former ministers will step back and become substitutes.
Swedish politicsThe Payment Agency (UBM) must immediately be granted access to the police's intelligence on gang criminals, according to the Social Democrats. In this way, billions in incorrect payments can be stopped.
CrimeThe Social Democrats want to restrict the lives of gang criminals, for example by imposing contact, travel, and business bans. It should be impossible to be a gang criminal in Sweden, says party leader Magdalena Andersson.
CrimeThe Social Democrats, the Left Party, and the Green Party want the weapons legislation to be tightened and go further than the government on a few points. The Sweden Democrats support the government's line, but several Sweden Democrat members are critical.
Swedish politicsA record-large visitation zone that covers entire southern Stockholm as a response to the wave of bombings. This is demanded by the Social Democrats, reports Aftonbladet.
SwedenLower the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years for serious crimes, proposes the government's investigator Gunnel Lindberg. Social development makes it impossible to sit idly by and do nothing, she says.
Swedish politicsThe year has begun with a historically high number of explosions. This is a situation that no decent society can accept, says Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (The Moderate Party).
Swedish politics"Now you who are exposed to crime can testify anonymously", wrote Minister for Energy and Industry and Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch (KD) on Instagram. The statement is incorrect and Busch is being criticized. The post was deleted in the morning. "The human factor has been involved", she writes on Instagram.
Swedish politicsMinister for Gender Equality and Labour Paulina Brandberg (L) suffers from a phobia – of bananas. The news has received great attention, also internationally. I get disturbed when a hard-working minister is almost reduced to a phobia, says Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M).
Swedish politicsThe Social Democrats have shifted their stance on the issue of anonymous witnesses in court, the party's law policy spokesperson Teresa Carvalho tells Expressen.
SwedenThe Social Democrats want to see a Swedish mafia law according to the American model to stop shootings and apprehend gang leaders. Collective criminal liability for those who are part of criminal gangs is something that should be investigated, according to S.
SwedenA store employee was shot and injured at the shopping center Kungsmässan in Kungsbacka on Sunday afternoon. Someone started running and people screamed hysterically and cried, says Louise Hansen, who was on the scene, to Göteborgs-Posten.
CrimeAfter the violent summer, the Social Democrats are making new demands on the government. The police should be tasked with visiting the country's schools, and they also want a brochure about the gangs to be distributed.
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