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During Friday, the death squad tested the difficult times in Danish courts point by point. They laughed and burst out despite the harsh messages and said they would “be out soon”, but when the jail cell door closes, I’m sure the facade cracks for young people.
They are punished with extreme severity by Denmark and among the audience were relatives crying.
The difference between the existence of a Swedish village of noise in the courts and the Danish justice’s treatment of gang offenders became clear when the verdict was read.
The five murder defendants were forced to get up and stand to receive the judge’s message directly in the courtroom: You are guilty of murder.
And a few hours later, after a new deliberation, they had to get up again: life sentences were announced for the three oldest members of the band: Mohamed Ali, Benjamin Owusu Afriyie and Mansor Ismail.
The death squad has used it to use young people because they are not punished so harshly. In Sweden, Ismail could have had a substantial youth discount since he was under 21 last summer, but in Denmark, people over 18 are sentenced as adults.
But perhaps most shocking compared to Sweden: 20 years in prison were the extremely harsh punishments for the two murderers who were 17 years old in June last year.
– In Sweden I was four years old, declared one of the youngest double-killer defense attorneys when he appealed to no avail for a lighter punishment.
In Denmark, only convicts under the age of 18 receive a youth discount and therefore the youngest two cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment.
But as the court ruled that the double homicide was part of the Rinkeby conflict between the Death Patrol and Shottaz gangs, the punishment was sharpened to the maximum for the two youngest. This is how the special Danish gang legislation works.
For the three elders, it had been a lifetime regardless of the special gang law.
The president of the court was uncompromising in his speech to the condemned, speaking of an “unusually crude and ruthless act.”
Criminals in Sweden have learned that it can be profitable to remain silent during a police investigation and then make up a prepared story when it is time for trial.
Before a Swedish trial, they can adapt their explanations to what has emerged during the police investigation.
In Sweden the “principle of immediacy” applies, which means that what is said during the trial is the most important thing.
In Denmark, the leader of the Death Patrol was captured in bed when the prosecutor in the interrogation with him took out evidence of which the leader was not aware and that were not even included in the presentation of evidence by the prosecution at the beginning of the trial.
“Why do you say that now?” He exclaimed.
In the Danish ruling against the Death Patrol, the court now repeats several times that the convicted killers chose to remain silent during the police investigation and did not make their statements until the trial after they were allowed to participate in the investigation.
Among other things, this led to leader Mohamed Ali’s explanation being dismissed as “improbable and artificial.”
The harsh punishments were also motivated by the fact that none of the murderers “provided information” that allowed them to be punished differently.
The silence doubled for the Death Patrol.
The verdict will now be a torch in the Swedish criminal policy debate on reimbursements for young people, criminals who are rewarded when they remain silent until trial and extra severe punishments for gang criminals.
Convicts have also learned that surveillance in the form of road cameras is significantly more effective in Denmark than in Sweden. Part of the evidence was based on the fact that the prosecutor was able to establish how they were moving in Denmark at the time of the double murder.
But it is incorrect to say that the Swedish police had not solved the double murder.
In all likelihood, the killers had also been convicted in Sweden because they left many traces of DNA in the getaway car that they were unable to burn.
The five convicted murderers directly appealed the verdicts to the Danish Court of Appeal, but if the verdicts stand, it means that the sentences will begin to be served in Denmark.
If they wish, they can apply after a period of time to be transferred to a Swedish prison, but this does not mean that a 20-year prison sentence for the youngest is attenuated to Swedish jurisprudence. They can only be released on probation after serving two-thirds of the sentence in Sweden and it is no lighter than in Denmark.
For those who carry a life sentence in a Swedish prison, the same rules apply as for Swedish prisoners. After ten years, life imprisonment can be applied for the sentence in Sweden, in Denmark it is only possible after twelve years.
And then Swedish jurisprudence applies to the length of life imprisonment, Danish life sentences are generally somewhat shorter, even though there is now a life inmate who has been locked up for 35 years.
More chronicles on the Rinkeby conflict
Courtroom riots when verdict was rendered: Expressen in place.
