The two brothers were sentenced to 5.5 and 4.5 years in prison for aggravated involuntary manslaughter by the Södertörn district court in may last year.

– A very gratifying judgment, considered, then Stewe Alm, strategic analyst and spokesperson in the field of drugs in the NOA, the police national operations department.

It was the first time that the police managed to connect the eight young people, death to the dealers of nätdrogen. All in all died over a hundred people because of overdoses of different variations (analogues) of the drug in 2017.

that judgment likely was intended, as a deterrent.

According to the Rättmedicinalverket decreased the number of deaths caused by fentanyl analogues sharply in 2018, then the 11 deaths was linked to the ”nätdrogen”. It is so for the drug is mainly marketed and sold via various websites on the internet.

was not, however, controlled when the judgment against the brothers – who denies crimes – fell. According to the district court’s ruling that, however, it is of no significance to the specimens was not controlled. The convicted should have realized how dangerous the substances were still.

After the verdict drew both potential vendors and users, the ears for themselves, ” says Robert Kronstrand, toxicologist at Rättmedicinalverket, in a pronounced.

DN met a mom and a dad to two of the deaths in connection with those proceedings:

” It was so easy to get hold of, and was not particularly expensive either. And to me, said Marcus when I asked about the where nässprejen he suddenly popped up with that it was a legal preparation, that he bought it online, then told Camilla Dannö, the mother of Marcus, who bought nätdrogen of the convicted brothers, and who died because of it.

Tommy Jansson and Camilla Dannös respective sons died after having bought the fentanyl analogues via the web in 2017. In the same year died over 100 persons of the drug. Now that the number of deaths dropped drastically. Photo: Nicklas Thegerström

the Government has just controlled eight new so-called nätdroger and several of the substances have been linked to deaths in Sweden national laboratory of forensic science have paid attention to.

– Two examples are 3-klorometkatinon and 4-klorometkatinon that caused the death already in 2015 but which now recurred, in 2018. Both substances have previously been classified as harmful to health, but the tightening up of the classification can now do that they will disappear completely, ” says Robert Kronstrand, in the statement.

the time denied the offence and both the prosecutor and the convicted appealed against the judgment. The prosecutor considers that penalties should be strengthened, while the defendants urge the exculpatory judgment.

Hovrättförhandlingarna is expected to continue until 22 march.

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