Sweden is now going after the criminals
SD and Jimmie Åkesson get full impact in new policy for combating organized criminals. The three government parties and the SD are now united in a major offensive to allow anonymous witnesses to be used in court. Visitation zones must be introduced as in Denmark. The new effort against criminals is described as “the biggest package of measures in modern times”.
It is really a new development that we are witnessing in Sweden, and this new development is not least thanks to the Swedish Democrats (SD). In the government platform, the Tidö agreement, the SD left its clear imprint on both immigration and crime, the two most important fields in a Sweden that now has more than one shooting death a week and where immigrant gangs have formed their own closed communities in society.
“Paradigm shift”, says the Prime Minister
In these often clan-based societies, the members are trapped in a culture of silence. Talking to the police or testifying in a trial against “your own” is almost the same as signing your own death warrant. This means that serious crime can hardly be prosecuted, as there are no witnesses who dare to come forward.
This is exactly what this government and SD are now taking on. Witnesses must be allowed to appear anonymously during the police investigation and before judges in the courtroom. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson himself calls the new provision a “paradigm shift”, and states that if the previous government had already delivered these measures three to four years ago, Sweden would already be in a much better place than it is today.
– If we don’t make changes, nothing will change either, Kristersson asserts.
– Now it will be Danish punishments for Swedish criminals, continued Kristersson.
By Danish punishments, he means, for example, double punishments for crimes committed in ghetto areas.
On Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Kristersson (M), Energy and Industry Minister Ebba Busch (KD), Labor Market and Integration Minister Johan Pehrson (V) and SD leader Jimmie Åkesson held a joint press conference to present a new security package linked to the Tidø agreement.
– The shootings will continue as today until they are locked up. It may get better before it gets better. There is nothing to indicate that they will quit voluntarily, says Ulf Kristersson.
The party leaders put forward four proposals – but it will be some time before they have a real effect, according to the prime minister.
– We are doing this methodically and systematically – and it will work, says the Prime Minister.
HER ARE THE SUGGESTIONS
Visitor zones. It is added to a study where proposals are to be put forward as to how a system of time-limited and geographically delimited visitor zones can be introduced in Sweden.
Anonymous witnesses. An investigation which will put forward proposals for a system of anonymous witnesses to deal with the culture of silence.
Lowered age limit for open initiatives for stables. The municipality’s social council proposes the possibility of adopting an open initiative, a contact person or a separately qualified contact person for children who have reached the age of 12, also without the consent of dependents. Today, the age limit is 15 years.
The municipality’s responsibility. The municipality’s responsibility is proposed to be regulated in a new law. According to the proposal, the municipality must develop a situational picture of crime in the municipality and use it as a starting point for an action plan. The municipalities must also take a certain responsibility for the coordination of the local crime prevention work.
The police will get additional tools and agents to use coercive means such as body searches without specific criminal suspicions, announced SD leader Jimmie Åkesson. An investigation must be established in the matter.
– Visitor zones can have an effect. These are time-limited and geographically limited, where you as a criminal risk being thoroughly searched by, says the police Åkesson.
The government also appoints a committee to deliver an inquiry into anonymous witnesses.
– When people who have witnessed the offense refrain from providing information, as you understand, this can lead to investigations being dropped and criminals going free, says Minister of Energy and Industry Ebba Busch (KD).
The committee will report its conclusions in January 2024 in the case of visitor zones and in October next year in the case of anonymous witnesses.