“Hard lead terrorplaner in the evidence”
“Two major objectives related to the preparation of acts of terrorism currently being processed by the courts of Denmark and Sweden, respectively. But there are few who are sentenced for terrorplaner.”
“– It will in the other hand. You take a chance not with life, ” says Filip Ahlin, an analyst at the Swedish national defence college.”
“To lead in evidence to a person preparing a terrorist incident is often difficult,” he says.”
” it– It’s very high criteria in order to be able to fold for terrorist offences, says Filip Ahlin.”
“– And you should be able to prove that the act that the person wants to commit to be able to damage a state. In addition, the intention being, for example, to instill serious fear in a population, or seriously destabilising social structures, he continues.”
“In Copenhagen is a syrian man who had been living in Malmö, in the face rightly – suspected of having planned to kill random people on the street with knives and bombs. In Stockholm are going on in parallel to the large terrormålet against three people, from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, according to the prosecutor planned a large-scale terrorist attack with explosives on the central place in the Swedish capital.”
“All of the parties involved in the two cases, deny the offences.”
“Then the act on terrorist offences were introduced in 2003 has a total of 21 people were charged for various forms of terrorplaner in Sweden.”
“so Far, the suspicions stood all the way in only two cases. In the rest of the cases the accused had either cleared completely, or been convicted of much milder violations.”
“to prove the preparation required for clear evidence. Often a lack of evidence and suspects are also adept at cover up his tracks.”
“You have not the actual circumstances that exist around an actual crime, but it is really that you should be able to take you into a person’s head and be able to prove what it intended to do,” says Filip Ahlin.”
“But it is not the number of prosecutions and convictions that determine how effective counter-terrorism is, he stresses. Säpos work in the first instance to prevent the deed, not to bring persons to justice, ” he says.”
“– Are the secret Police and a group of individuals and feel that now we have to go in and cancel so that no human life is at risk – then you will do it. Then if it results in a preliminary investigation on the preparation of terrorist offences or not, it is the child, ” says Filip Ahlin.”
“TT: How often dares Police to wait for more evidence?”
“– There is a tradeoff in every case. But you take a chance with human life.”
“An example of when the Fbi let the preparations go far is the deed that four people from Sweden planned against the Danish newspaper the Jutland-Posten. The fbi had kept an eye out for the men a longer period of time and followed after the car went to Copenhagen. There they were taken in an apartment and the police could at the same time, seize the weapons and ammunition and so-called cable ties, which men believed would bind his victims with.”
“The four men, sentenced each to twelve years in prison.”
“Copenhagen: on Tuesday launched terrorrättegången against a syrian man who has been living in Malmö. He has previously been indicted for a brandattack in a shia premises in Malmö, but freed. According to the prosecutor planned the 31-year-old man together with others to kill randomly selected people in the Danish capital in order to destabilize or destroy the Danish society, as it is expressed in the indictment. The man, who denies the crime, have been in custody for more than a year. A 21-year-old man has already a German court sentenced to six and a half years in prison for involvement in the terrorplanerna.”
“Stockholm: January 7 began the trial of six people, from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, suspected of terrorrelaterad crime. Three of them are suspected of preparing for terrorist crimes. According to the prosecutor proves the seized chemicals, the pictures on social media and the conversations that the three men planned a deed on Swedish soil. The plan must have been to detonate a homemade bomb on a heavily populated place in Stockholm.”
“the Law on terrorist offences has been in place since 2003, and came into being as a result of the terrorist attacks in the USA on 11 september 2001.”
“Many types of crime can be classified as terrorist crimes, ranging from assault to manslaughter and murder. But it required the intent to seriously harm a state. In addition to the intention of the act to be that of seriously intimidating a population or population group.”
“It can also be about forcing for example the Swedish authorities to take or refrain from taking an action, or seriously destabilise the political, constitutional, or other fundamental structures.”
“the Punishment ranges from imprisonment of four years to life in prison.”
“Source: the Law, Ds 2017:62, DN”