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The man in his 30s is said to have been disorderly and violent at a house party at a villa in Ronneby township in May 2018, and while he was waiting for the police to arrive at the scene, four people shot him down and held him against the floor.
When police arrived on the scene, he was blue-faced and had stopped breathing, and was later pronounced dead in the emergency room.
The four men were charged with causing another death and aggravated battery, but now the Blekinge District Court has acquitted them.
The district court justifies, among other things, the decision by saying that the four defendants acted solely to prevent the victim from assaulting them.
Deputy Attorney General Marie Lindström demanded in district court a suspended sentence and community service corresponding to one year in prison.
Thus he comments on the acquittal:
– The district court has made a different evaluation than I did. It is a detailed and elaborate judgment, and today is too early to say whether I will appeal.
This is how it sounded in court in September:
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