Published: 17 Jul 12 08:00 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/42062/20120717/
An out of work 26-year-old from eastern Sweden who threatened to cut off a business owner's fingers after being denied a job is facing criminal charges for the violent threat.
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The 'only in Sweden' part might sadly be revealed during sentencing. A woman who was given a series of well documented and very serious death threats by email and text messages by her own brother ('honour' related death sentence if she continued to date some guy who the family did not approve of) decided to withdraw her accusation when it was revealed that, even if convicted, her putrid brother would only get a few months in jail, rather than deportation or any sort of real disincentive to carry on with the death threats, or the murder itself.
I hope this job seeking maniac gets 10 years or more, but I will be shocked if he gets anything near that.
Not sure how much it helps if i compare with my own country..
But for Sweden i would say the daily safety feeling makes any violent story becomes a national shock...
When in most of european country only, the daily violence make the same story not even making it in the news... to talk only about europe ..
you see what you don't have and forget what you have
Please don't make Sweden look like a violent country, its one of the safest in the world..
If being the rape capital of Europe make Sweden safe then my name is Ingemar Stenmark.
If we are all being real about what the word, 'safe' means then we all know that Sweden used to be a lot more safe than it is today. Then again, that was 20+ years ago...before....the invasion of......well, you know..
I am not making Sweden look like a violent country, I am simply pointing out that Sweden creates no serious disincentive to commit violent crime.
A very rare exception was the 18 year sentence for a knife murder reported a few days ago, but often murderes here get only a couple of years, and insultingly low fines to pay to the family of the victim.
The concept of making him do some useful work while behind bars, to pay back his debt to society, is utterly unthinkable here in Sweden, where violent criminals can do no wrong in the eyes of the state.
"Only in Sweden" is an expression used by ignorants when they don't have anything to contribute but want to see their handle in a comments thread.
Sincerely your invader, just like most go the people writing here i assume (invaders)
These graphs were posted elsewhere, but I believe this blog is the original source. At this time, I have not read the entire post, nor do I understand all the Swedish in the post. I can't say that the information (or the blog in general) is well documented, unbiased, (un)offensive, etc.
It is hard to believe that this isn't common knowledge already.
Ever heard of Google?
Try looking it up yourself before try calling someone out, twit.
From our beloved local itself... http://www.thelocal.se/19102/20090427/
"A few days later, however, the business owner reported the incident to police, who promptly arrested the 26-year-old."
only in Sweden