Prosecutors back down after the public storm – demand deportation after all

Published 12 November 2024 at 12.41

Domestic. After massive criticism from the public, prosecutors now choose to appeal a high-profile verdict against two rapists and demand that they be deported. The prosecutor's office now claims that the prosecutor “failed” to request deportation in the district court – despite the fact that the prosecutor had previously come up with a completely different explanation.

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The gang rape in Frölunda

• Prosecutor refusing extradition "hiding from the media" – hunted by Joakim Lamotte
• Child was gang-raped in the forest – she did not request deportation

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Prosecutor Kristina Åberg was chased on Monday by the journalist Joakim Lamotte and had an angry public storm after her on social media.

The reason is that it was reported that she chose not to seek deportation for two immigrants who participated in gang-raping a underage girl in a forest area in Frölunda.

Before she went underground, Kristina Åberg indicated that there were reasons not to request deportation – reasons that she refused to explain.

– What I can ascertain is that in order to claim deportation, certain prerequisites for this need to be met. I cannot go into more detail about the reasons because they concern their personal circumstances, Kristina Åberg told Göteborgs-Posten after the verdict.

Now the Public Prosecutor's Office announces in a press release that the verdict has been appealed to the Court of Appeal by Kristina Åberg. She was the prosecutor who had the case in court, and one of two prosecutors who handled the case. It was, however, another prosecutor, Åsa Nilsson, who was behind the prosecution itself and did not request deportation from the very beginning.

The prosecutor has now requested both an increase in punishment and deportation for the two elderly defendants who are foreign citizens.

– Deportation requests should have been included in connection with prosecution being brought in the district court. It was missed by oversight. Now that question has been raised in the Court of Appeal and will therefore be tried in connection with the Court of Appeal taking up the case, says Daniel Edsbagge, head of chambers at the Gothenburg Prosecutor's Chamber.