Published: 19 Sep 12 08:05 CET | Print version
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Two teenage boys have been sentenced to juvenile detention after savagely beating a 61-year-old man into a coma as bystanders looked on in Gothenburg in March.
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i mean what kind of person does this....they are seriously screwed up
Rehabilitation is a pointless exercise if the offender does not recognise the gravity of the offence.
It would seem, as enoecrof points out, that such an action described in the first line of this comment should have justified a harsher (more accurate) prosecution. If that action is not attempted murder then I fail to understand the validity of attempted murder criteria!
I am truly sorry,Carl-Eric Cedvander, that no one came to your assistance and that 'the system' seems also to have failed you.
Some earn millions in Paris and other places running and kicking at the ball... and there you have to cage the public around not to come and assist..
Its upside down mate!
2. - "Had the offenders been of an adult age . . ."
3. - "It's mixed feelings. It's disappointing that my client was not acquitted, but the good thing is that the penalty was more lenient than the prosecutor had requested,"
1. How often do criminals say 'I did it.'
2. They are the equivalent of adults and should have been sentenced as such.
3. Who would want to have this person as a lawyer - clearly only criminals. What a wimp.
The only good part of the sentencing is the payment of damages, but how long will they have to keep that up, and how till they have to pay? Will the 'debt' be written off?? Who will ensure that it gets paid?
At least in the comments they have been named and shamed. People need to know who these monsters really are, irrespective of from whence they come.
Shame, also, on the bystanders who just stood by. They share the blame for what happened to this poor individual.
Who does not despair over Swedish justice and the sentences handed out. Little more than slaps on the wrist. What a deterrent ! ! ! !
Perhaps if the courts were not so uselessly lenient people would not do such things.
Rape gets you accuital or just a few months in jail
Beating a man senseless gets only 1-2 years if an adult.
Maybe the corwd nknew that f they intervened they would get beaten and th boys face no punishment or maybe the crowd just oesnt care. Much like Germany when Hitler took over people said nothing. In the states atleast one person would have done something and they were juviniles for crying out loud atleast get one or two of those punks?
Its because Sweden has emasculated the men in that country save for packs of wild animals apparently doesnt matter what color wild animals are wild animals.
That's great, Playmobil. Way to make a joke about an older man getting beaten up and permanently handicapped. I'm sure that kicking the heads of older men is just fine wherever you're from since it is probably the same place as these young adults. However, this is the 1st world where that sort of behavior is usually met with stiff prison sentences and public scorn. Everywhere except Sweden at least.
These kids need to be deported. I don't care about their families either. Obviously, they are not being raised right since they permanently handicapped an old man and laughed about it in court. Perhaps if they were sent back to Iraq and Turkey (yeah, I know you're all shocked that they are from those countries), they would learn that there are consequences for actions such as these. Obviously, they are not going to learn that here in Sweden.
So now they get juvenile detention and a fine they won't pay????
It's obvious the Swedish justice system, the product of a peaceful society, is ill-equipped with the level of violence some of its new arrivals bring with them.