Published 14 March 2023 at 09.37
Law & Right. In a guiding judgment from the Supreme Court today, the sentence is significantly reduced for two participants in the Koran riots.
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The verdict concerns two men who participated in the Koran riot in Sveaparken in Örebro at Easter. Among other things, both threw stones at the police.
The district court sentenced one to six years in prison for gross sabotage against blue light operations and violence against an official. The second was sentenced to five years in prison for gross sabotage against blue light operations.
Later, the Court of Appeal reduced the first man's prison sentence to five years and six months in prison.
Now the Supreme Court lowers the sentence even further, to three years and three months and three years' imprisonment respectively. The man who receives the longer sentence of the defendants is also convicted of violence against an official, consisting of having thrown a stone at a police officer from close range.
One question that the Supreme Court has examined is whether the acts should be assessed such as violent riot or sabotage against blue light operations. The court comes to the conclusion that the acts meet the requirements for both crimes but sentences them to sabotage against blue light operations. The crimes are assessed as serious, primarily in view of the fact that they have been committed within the framework of an extensive and serious attack against the police.
However, according to HD, there is no support for the claim that all those who participated in the unrest have acted together and in agreement with each other. In the case, according to the verdict, there is also no detailed investigation into the extent and in what way the defendants were involved in the parts of the course of events that are not specifically linked to them in the indictment. The defendants are therefore only sentenced for what can be concretely linked to their own actions.
Justice Gudmund Toijer, Agneta Bäcklund, Malin Bonthron, Johan Danelius (referent) and Jonas Malmberg participated in the ruling. The rapporteur was the secretary of justice Maria Schöllin.