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Life imprisonment for the Vetlanda Afghan

Published 14 July 2021 at 15.40

Domestic. Afghan Tamim Sultani is now sentenced to seven counts of attempted murder after the knife attacks in Vetlanda on March 3 this year. The penalty is determined to be life imprisonment. The district court has also ruled that the Sultani should be deported and that he should pay damages.

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The evidence consisted largely of court certificates regarding the victims' injuries, analyzes of blood contamination on the seized knife, GPS positionings in the Afghan phone, alarm calls and excerpts from surveillance cameras, but also of interrogations with all the plaintiffs.

After examined the evidence, the district court has concluded that it has been proven that Tamim Sultani has attacked the plaintiffs with a knife and caused the damage that the prosecutor has claimed.

that is, danger that each of the plaintiffs would die.

With regard to Sultani's intent, the district court has concluded that it has been shown that the perpetrator had so-called indifference to the crimes and that he should therefore be convicted of attempted murder in seven cases.

The Afghan told at the main hearing about three of the attacks, but did not remember the other attacks. He also said that he did not question what the plaintiffs said about the course of events, but that he accepted it.

Sultani was also charged with a minor drug offense, which he had admitted and for which he was also convicted.

He has undergone a forensic psychiatric examination. In the forensic psychiatric statement, the assessment has been made that Sultani did not commit the accused acts under the influence of a serious mental disorder, that he did not have a serious mental disorder at the time of the examination and that there are therefore no medical conditions to transfer him to forensic psychiatric care.

The district court finds that there is no reason to make any other assessment of the Afghan's mental condition than that made in the forensic psychiatric statement. This means that he should not be treated differently in terms of punishment.

Furthermore, the district court finds that each of the attempted murders has a very high penalty value and concludes that the total penalty value for the total crime for which the man is convicted corresponds to imprisonment. lifetime. In the judgment, the district court also decides on deportation, which is not limited in time.

Tamim Sultani must pay SEK 125,000 in damages to each of the victims.

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