Radio communication, Police 1:
Damn, I don't see where he is.
Policy 2:
He went up, he's gone by the bus.
Policy 1:
There, yes, he drives the traffic.
Policy 2:
The Arlandator to police 944 arrived
Tower:
Policy 944 is coming.
E4 northbound.
3-0, then he goes to traffic E4 northbound, he drives south on the road.
It is perceived.
And to the patrol who is out hunting now, given the engine power, we will never be able to catch up. Try to take strategic positions in your immediate area there. And the helicopter you do your best to keep track of that at a proper distance. Come on.
Policy 1:
Yes now he made a round pallet then on the exit up towards Eurostop.
A petrol station in Jakobsberg.
He who drives the car is currently 15 years old. He has committed crimes since he was nine.
He has long been a case with the social services and is well known to the police.
Magnus Nilsson:
He was a regular feature of our video conferencing meetings for the entire region in the mornings, because everyone, more or less, kept going and chasing him without wanting to chase him because we could see what the result was in the form of mad runs. We don't want a car chase. So that frustration has been great around this particular person across the region, with social services, with the police, certainly with the Prosecutor's Office as well. What do we do?
When filming this, he is suspected of a number of crimes, including theft by burglary and car theft.
But he is still on the loose. Magnus Nilsson himself just ten days earlier arrested him with a fake sign stolen BMW.
Magnus Nilsson:
All of a sudden it rolls into a new BMW 5 Series Spray ... Mmm and then we knew it was one on the fan, and that was he, it was. So that he...
Reporter:
And what happened then?
Magnus Nilsson:
Well, he was fairly easily detained in that case. And then we left this case so ... He is a youth and he is not deprived of liberty in that then returns to some form of care in the social services care so back to where he was before.
Reporter:
And social care, what does that mean in practice?
Magnus Nilsson:
Yes, I'm not the right person to answer really either, but so it can be home care ...
Reporter:
Home Care?
Magnus Nilsson:
Yes, etc. ... that can be discussed as well as how effective it is.
This is a story of how a young man can commit crime after crime without society being able to stop his criminal progress.
We can call him Hassan.
When we see him petrol-fueled petrol here, he has been placed by the social service for home care for over two months. But that's not where he lives.
The car he fuels is a Lexus, a Japanese sports car with a top speed of 270 kilometers per hour.
It was stolen a few hours earlier in a residential area a bit away. Who the thief is has not been determined.
Robert Luciani:
So here we have a porch and a living room and a kitchen in here, he came in for the front door here and here we have dressing rooms and valuables where I usually put them, no longer of course. And so I lay in the living room, four to five meters from the door, but I didn't wake up from entering the house, so he took the key and must have gone straight out, I suspect.
Reporter:
And it wasn't any car?
Robert Luciani:
No, it was my Lexus that I had been storing together for many, many years, so it felt pretty snoopy to get rid of it.
Reporter:
How many years had you saved for it?
Robert Luciani:
It was then that I started working after university ... so that six years? So I liked it very much, it was special.
Magnus Nilsson was now Hassan back on track.
Magnus Nilsson:
Now I do not know exactly, do not remember exactly what parking space. But it may have been here, where this red Opel Astran stands. But here it stood anyway, backed up. Without registration plates if I remember correctly. So that I call another patrol here, for my thought and our thought is that he is the one who stole it and that he is then in this home where he is family home located.
He wants to do the house search where he thinks the car thief is, but gets no.
Magnus Nilsson:
I don't remember what I would pick up in the car, if ... what it was, but I walk these 15 meters away to the police car and open the tailgate to retrieve something, and then I hear this V8 roar behind my back. So then he has, obviously ice cold as he is, if he was in the house now or if he was here in the immediate vicinity and hid, I do not know, but he jumps into the car anyway and pulls away.
Radio communication, Police 2:
Now he passes 200 km per hour.
Magnus Nilsson:
I can say that I had an ethanol-powered Saab so I didn't even try once because I understood he was driving ... it was no idea, it put other people at risk of direct life.
Radio communication, Police 1:
He runs a zigzag between the cars, violent progress.
Several police cars and a helicopter take up the hunt.
A speed camera records when only 15-year-old Hassan drives 229 kilometers per hour on a road where the top speed is 80.
Radio communication, Police 2:
He turns down at the traffic stop Rotebro, towards the traffic, the traffic came.
Radio communication, Police 2:
0944, new position came.
Car reporter:
I'm on my way to an institution somewhere in Sweden. I hope to meet this person. So, having committed crimes since young years, I want to talk to him about it, and the victims he left behind, and why society has not stopped his crime.
Hassan is far from alone.
According to the police here - where you have known him for a long time - crime has gone down the ages and they see young people who have developed a criminal lifestyle early on.
About one-fifth of 15- to 17-year-olds who commit crimes recur in crime within a year, according to BRÅ.
Only a stone's throw from the police house, in Jakobsberg's center, is open drug dealing.
Magnus Nilsson:
But it is precisely that drugs are thus handled relatively openly and unashamedly. You are not as shy as when the seller or buyer comes and the sellers handle this.
Magnus Nilsson:
They are not so cheeky that they stand right in front of us, because they know that it will not be good.
Reporter:
What then?
Magnus Nilsson:
No, then of course we intervene and, as well as set up a preliminary investigation and work to prosecute them.
Reporter:
Is there anyone I can talk to? I make a report for Assignment Review.
Guy 1 (voice only):
Ok, ok, wait, wait.
Reporter:
It concerns your situation here.
Boy:
I know what you mean, but so there is a risk for him too (refers to friend)
Boy:
A golare.
Reporter:
But it is probably not a golfer.
Another guy:
The things he is risking .. for people will think he is golfer and stuff like that.
Reporter:
He is no more visible than his back.
Reporter:
Police say there is open drug sales here in the square.
Anonymous guy:
Which square? This square ?!
Reporter:
Yes.
Anonymous guy:
Not what I think, I haven't seen it that way. But then I don't know everything. I'm not here all the time if something happens, so I don't know.
Reporter:
No ... I understand. It may happen that you sell drugs here?
Anonymous guy:
Perhaps.
Reporter:
Do you have respect for the police, are you afraid to go there?
Anonymous:
There is no respect for the police.
Reporter:
How old are those who sell hashish, or what do you sell?
Mona Jokhaji:
Cannabis, a lot. Tramadol ehh. It is from 13 years onwards.
Reporter:
13 years?!
Mona Jokhaji:
Ah, it's much younger ages now.
Reporter:
Have you seen it yourself?
Mona Jokhaji:
Yes. Daily, several times. The police do their job, they then grab them and they are released again. After 45 minutes they are back.
Reporter:
After 45 min?
Mona Jokhaji:
Yes, at most 45 minutes they are back when they have been interrogated.
Reporter:
And continue with what they were doing?
Mona Jokhaji:
Continues!
Reporter:
But do you think they are afraid of getting stuck?
Mona Jokhaji:
No, because they know nothing is happening.
The municipality now pays for two order guards who patrol here in Jakobsberg's center.
Reporter:
Do these young people, so to speak, who sell drugs, or whatever it is, do they have respect for you? Are you in any way intimidating?
Dennis:
These young people do not have much respect for the uniform. Many people do not like the authorities at all.
Reporter:
We are in the stairwell here.
Tobias Becker, Phone:
That's right, I'll be right out.
Reporter:
Yes, perfect.
Tobias Becker, Phone:
Hello Hello.
Reporter:
Say you grab a 16-year-old who stole something ...
Tobias Becker:
Yes, then we do not seize them, but then we identify them, contact their guardians, inform the social service of what has happened and then they may go home, maybe send them home to the parents, or the parents may come and collect them. That's what happens.
Reporter:
What crimes can it be about?
Tobias Becker:
Ordinary juvenile delinquency, it is robbery, abuse, illegal threats.
Up to the age of 18, special reasons are required for arrest or detention, as in the case of very serious crimes, for example serious robbery.
Young people should receive care - not be locked up. That idea also applies to social service measures.
The National Board of Health and Welfare is the authority that draws up regulations for the municipalities' social services.
Annika Öquist:
Yes, there is research on the fact that long institutional placements that are then to be locked up as well as at SiS institutions are not good for children and young people's development. That you usually get worse school results and fewer protective factors and feel worse and get more destructive behavior.
Reporter:
But at the same time you are sparing the community or any crime victims.
Annika Öquist:
During that period. Mm. You get harder when you come out of the institution and if you do not feel well and have it harder then the likelihood that you will continue with destructive behavior.
Lock-in hits young people particularly hard. But how does society act to stop a young person who continues to commit crimes?
Hassan robs for the first time when he is twelve, abuses when he is 14, he has told in a personal investigation.
From 2015 until today, he has been suspected of 221 crimes, according to police, more than many lifestyle criminals gather for a lifetime.
He is 19 years old today and is in prison.
We cannot film the institution he is sitting in for his own safety.
But it is of the same security class as this one, iTäby.
I have written to him to hear his explanation that he is sitting there.
He finally said yes to an interview.
A prerequisite is that we do not contact his mother or anyone else in the family.
Reporter:
Ok, of course you do not have to say your name, because we should not include that. But could you say who you are, can you describe yourself?
Hassan:
Is it recording now?
Reporter:
Yes, it's recording now, can you just tell me, who are you, so to speak?
Hassan:
I am a young guy growing up in the Stockholm area and doing car thefts for the most part.
Reporter:
What are you doing here at this institution?
Hassan:
Now I am sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for robbery, among other things.
Reporter:
How do you feel about it? That you have committed these crimes and that you are sitting here?
Hassan:
No, I don't feel that much about it. I understand that someday, if you are a criminal, it will sometime happen that you are in prison and my turn was now.
Reporter:
You have been committing crimes a long time, yet since you were nine, ten years huh?
Hassan:
Yes it is true. But during that period it might not have been so ... it's obviously not that serious at that age. But that led to some problems. It was a lot of smattering and you know bike thefts and lots of stuff like that when you were ten years old. But over the years, it has escalated. But I was placed in a youth home, or SiS home, where I met other criminals. And then they became my role models and I wanted to do like them.
He grew up in Blackeberg in northwestern Stockholm, along with his mother and siblings.
In the social service documents, I read about how he has difficulties in school and is drawn into criminal circles.
Hassan:
I remember when I was a kid, I wanted to be ... I had a lot of different things I wanted to become a pilot, a lot of different football professionals. None of this came in, you have other dreams as small. When you are in a suburb, where those you have as role models are criminals I mean what should you do? I mean...
The social services have had contact with the family before and when Hassan is twelve years old his mother turns to them and tells them that the son is aggressive, nervous and that she is worried that he is part of the criminal gang.
After a short time in a nursing home, he is taken care of according to LVU, the law on the care of young people. And then there comes a time when he is placed and relocated between different institutions and emergency homes.
As a 14-year-old, he ends up in a family home on Gotland. But he escapes.
Instead, he wants to be placed at home with a friend's family in Bro, a few miles from his home in Blackeberg. The social service agrees with his wishes.
It will be a decisive time for Hassan.
Magnus Nilsson:
Now we stand in the community of Bro on its outskirts, or the outskirts of what is marked by us as an exposed area, it is part of Bro, central Bro.
It is one of three vulnerable areas within the local police area. And it is worth staying here for a while to give a picture of the environment in which Hassan is staying.
Faruk Yildiz:
Tasty meal, thank you very much.
Faruk Yildiz:
We had problems for a while last year, last year more and more. We have lowered opening hours, the neighbors have lowered opening hours, the other neighbor has lowered opening hours.
Reporter:
Why?
Faruk Yildiz:
Because we dare not work anymore when you are alone here, then you are worried that something will happen. A lot has happened too.
Reporter:
What happened?
Faruk Yildiz:
Robbery. It's young people. Masked guys.
Reporter:
And what does the police do wrong?
Faruk Yildiz:
The police come, they do their job, they pick if they succeed. And then I think the law is not enough to punish. The Prosecutor drops back. Then they dare to do more and more. And when they grab and release, they have no respect for the police either. They know that they will be free.
Håkan Editig:
They came here one morning, two, went in the back and had the knife to the neck of an employee here and I stuck away because I would, ah, take them in any other way and then they shouted: "Håkan came forward or we will kill her ". And then they would have money from the safe but they got nothing and I recognized him, told the police, nothing happened and yes ... Then he was in here and acted as usual.
Reporter:
The day after?
Håkan Editig:
Yes.
Reporter:
What do you think about it then?
Håkan Editig:
Yes, it feels that way ... That we ... That is how it should be. That nothing happens to anything.
Håkan Editig:
I've had eight robberies.
Reporter:
Eight robberies?
Håkan Editig:
Mm ... nobody's stuck.
Reporter:
What happens to the employee who got the knife to the neck for example?
Håkan Editig:
Yes, sick leave for a long time and then she quit. Yes ... She wasn't feeling well.
There are no suspicions that Hassan would be involved in these robberies, but it is here in Bro that he, as a 14-year-old, lives with a family he knows before, placed by the social services in an attempt to break his criminal behavior.
But it is something that surprises me. The father of the family where Hassan is now located has a long criminal record: fraud, drunk driving, illegal driving and numerous drug offenses.
Just a couple of weeks before Hassan comes to the family, the family home dad has been sentenced to nine months in prison for gross robbery, a sentence that has not yet been enforced.
Tobias Becker:
You talk about risk factors and this is obviously an obvious risk factor as I see it in close proximity to a foster home dad who has this lifestyle as well.
Hassan's mother explains in a statement that the placement in the family was - quote - "a kind of training in crime".
But on the contrary, the social service in Bromma thinks that the placement is successful. The family therapist writes in an opinion that Hassan is building up a self-image as a "normal boy without problems" and that the criminal identity has decreased. Something Hassan himself agrees with.
Hassan:
This particular person we are talking about was an excellent, so amazing person who helped me a lot. I can say that had I not been there during that period, it might have been a little worse, it might have looked worse.
Reporter:
But as your mother who is worried about you in that situation, she thinks this man brought you on the trajectory of the crime.
Hassan:
So say so, the social service they attended at the meetings when you approved this family. They have to see how you live, how you manage financially. And all this was approved, they even met this guy, the dad in this family and thought it worked well and they did it right.
Reporter:
Here we have November ...
He has been able to be placed in the family for six months when the family home dad is suspected of new crimes - including drug crimes, theft and the use of means of procurement. The police report a concern to the social service.
Reporter:
That the father is apparently criminal, is it serious? During the placement?
Tobias Becker:
You must think so. I probably would not, if I had problems with my children for some reason and was told that where my child lives that one parent has possession of drugs and steal cars, it would not feel good at all.
On the same day that the family home dad is suspected of a crime, the Social Committee decides that the placement of Hassan with the family should cease.
Martin Lirén:
No, it is not good to have an active criminal role model.
Reporter:
Yes, then you wonder how you reasoned in this case?
Martin Lirén:
I cannot comment in the individual case, but on the other hand I can say that today we would never make such a placement. Is it that we have done it historically then the organization has done wrong.
Reporter:
You were very positive after all?
Martin Lirén:
I still can't, I can't comment on the individual case. But I know with us is that 89 percent of the children and young people we meet and provide support and treatment they do not return to the social service, but there we actually succeed.
The social service now places him with his mother in Blackeberg.
But that's not where he lives. He tells himself in police interviews how he almost always sleeps with the family in Bro and goes home to Blackeberg only every other or every three days.
His criminal trajectory is now gaining momentum.
Just a week after he was placed with his mother, the police seize him after a car chase for over 200 kilometers per hour that ends on a grass field.
E The police write to the social service that they "feel a great concern for him" and that he "needs a lot of support not to continue his criminal trajectory. A support which he seems to lack from both society and guardians ”.
Reporter:
And what happens when this comes to the social service?
Tobias Becker:
Yes, we don't know that much. We do not receive any feedback from the social services regarding such things.
Reporter:
What do you think about it then?
Tobias Becker:
Ah, they have their privacy which they refer to which they consider then that they can not disclose then to the police then, but it can be a problem sometimes then, because we write and write and then we do not know who in it In that case, when he had canceled the placement, we did not know so to speak. Where he is and so. We do not get feedback in 99 cases out of 100, I should say.
But if a youth is suspected of a crime with a penalty value of at least one year in prison, it is permissible for the social service to break the secrecy. The conditions were in Hassan's case.
On his 15th birthday he is with the family in Bro. Just a few hundred meters away, a woman is robbed on her Volvo. Crying, she tells police how a masked man screamed "Give me the fucking car!" When she resisted, he pulled up a knife and a gun.
Hassan is seized with the key to the stolen car and is suspected of gross robbery.
Reporter:
What control do you make of being in the home and not somewhere else?
Martin Lirén:
The social service's mission is to work caring and supportive we work to support, trying to find the motivation, the repressive, the police and the law enforcement authorities.
Reporter:
So you do no control?
Martin Lirén:
We work to provide support and care and support. The repressive and controlling that the police stand for.
Reporter:
After all, it becomes a problem here when the police do not know where the youth is located somewhere, they do not know if it is LVU in the home or if there is any institution, they do not know when it will cease and when it will start. How do you deal with it?
Martin Lirén:
Our mission is to support them.
Reporter:
But it is important with control, the kid really should be in the home, he should not live anywhere else and be placed in the home?
Annika Öquist:
If you are placed, if the person is placed in the home then it is the home that should be the place that you agreed to live in. After all, the Social Committee has the responsibility to supervise where the child is and to know where it is. and that it should then be in accordance with the care plan that you have set up.
Katrin Westlund:
Even if you are placed in the home, the social welfare agency ... the social services, sorry, have strong guarantees that everything has worked, the child gets the attention it needs and that you can complete the care, that you do not go back to your crime.
Reporter:
So that if the child continues to commit crimes, for example, then you can not place in the home again?
Katrin Westlund:
If it is so that you are placed in the home and the young person continues with his criminal behavior then it may be a sign that this was not a good placement because this care it does not have good effects and if it is not sufficient supervision .
Hassan is reassigned from his mother after he is suspected of robbery, illegal threats, mistreatment, legal action, theft and attempted extortion. Eventually, he ends up in a youth home in Enköping. From there he escapes.
But despite this, Hassan is again placed at home with his mother, following suggestions from him and his mother.
Tobias Becker:
It feels like to me, I get the feeling that they are giving up a little neighbor. You surrender.
Reporter:
That you again place a crime-fighting young person in the home even though you have seen before that crime continues? Does that sound like a reasonable measure?
Martin Lirén:
Today we have no LVU in the home that way, we have had it historically we have done wrong.
As a 15-year-old, Hassan is now a criminal and is facing trial for the first time. He is sentenced to juvenile care. But while waiting for a place in a youth home, he is still placed in the home, with his mother.
The police warn the social service that Hassan is - quote - "extremely criminal."
It is now the car chase taking place, where he tries to escape the police for over 200 kilometers per hour in a black Lexus.
Radio communication, Police 1:
Yes, 3-0, then let's see, he swung into a residential area here ... a school or something like that, now he backed out again.
Radio communication, Police 1:
Then he goes in the direction of driving, a car in the ditch, an oncoming car in the ditch, come.
Radio communication, Police 1:
Yes, 3-0, then he has turned up on the drive towards the direction of the roundabout, the big roundabout.
The police cars are forced to weigh in. It gets too dangerous and they decide to cancel the car chase.
Radio communication, control center:
All cars cancel, we should not chase this one any more. Helicopter, you are doing your best to see where he is going at the proper distance, come.
The hunt ends in the center of Tensta, where he drives the car into a house wall and flees on foot.
Radio communication, Police 1:
0944 goes in, they have thrown the car
Radio communication, Police 2:
One person, one person.
Radio communication, Police 1:
One person up towards Tensta center.
He stays away for almost two weeks but is eventually arrested with another stolen car, by a police patrol at Södermalm in Stockholm.
Hassan is now placed in a state, so-called SIS home.
Reporter (parking outside Klarälvsgården):
There is one.
He is taken to Klarälvsgården in Värmland.
Reporter:
But a short question before we go in here, should one be able to escape from this or depart?
Leif Nilsson:
You should not be able to do that. It is clear that we cannot prevent in all situations so to speak, but it is of course very difficult to get out because we have the shell protection we have.
Reporter:
Ah, we can go in and tell you more about the whole plant here.
At Klarälvsgården, criminal boys between the ages of 16 and 21 will receive care, according to LVU, after a decision by the social service.
Leif Nilsson:
The public might live in a belief that this is a prison and it is not a prison. It is a treatment center which means that we have to follow the guidelines that exist and the young people have to come out sometimes.
Reporter:
I thought we would go into a little more detail of what has happened and such. Should we go up to your room then, right?
Leif Nilsson:
We'll do that!
Here Hassan gets locked up but with the possibility of permits. It is part of the treatment to reduce the risk of recidivism in crime.
Leif Nilsson:
And then some time goes by. If they do everything they can, they will follow their treatment plan. And then we agree that the youth, then it is decided that they can be moved up in step two and step two then there will be a little more freedom, then you can walk outside the shelter.
After only two weeks at Klarälvsgården, Hassan runs away from a caretaker during a walk. The report shows how he kicks off his slippers and disappears between the cowhooks.
Jonathan Eliasson:
I think he had come up one step so he had to take a short walk with the staff.
He is on the run for just over a month and a half and is breaking in, stealing car keys, jewelry and wallets.
Hassan has previously been suspected of forcing a younger boy to steal clothes with him.
Here we see them at a Stadium shop in Stockholm.
When Hassan is now on the run, he takes the opportunity to threaten the boy for reporting him. He smashes boxes in the family home.
Leif Nilsson:
We see here that this was too early, for example, that a youth would not be outside the fence, or so.
He is taken back to Klarälvsgården. But only two weeks later he can hold for the second time. This time by smashing a window together with another youth and climbing over a fence. They have grown up and threaten the staff, the report says.
He is arrested with a stolen Porsche. And when the police once again transport him to Klarälvsgården, they warn the staff - they should have "stonework" on Hassan.
Leif Nilsson:
Such a youth who deviates and does criminal things, he must not go out for a walk and depart again.
But time goes by, and security eases again. Three months later he receives a guarded entertainment permit in Karlstad.
Reporter:
When he is so inclined to escape, is it really advisable that he be allowed to be on amusement leave then?
Leif Nilsson:
Yes, it is true that then if a youth has departed and then it has gone maybe three months and everything has worked, you follow your treatment plan then both social service and we think in this case, then you should try, then we try and go on an entertainment permit.
During the leave, Hassan goes to the cinema but takes the opportunity to escape during a toilet visit. It's his third escape.
Reporter:
Can a talented person with a criminal identity deceive your shirt?
Jonathan Eliasson:
Do you consider it that way? That I am so easily fooled?
Reporter:
Yes I think so. Since this person is one like he wants to, he can make you think that he should go on entertainment permits.
Jonathan Eliasson:
It is true that we have legislation to deal with. If you are doing very well during your placement time, you also need to get tested in more open forms.
After escaping from the cinema, Hassan stays away for almost a month before being arrested, suspected of new crimes and returned to Klarälvsgården.
He is now 16 and it is now time for his second trial.
Mikael Swahn:
Here is a main negotiating room ...
Hassan is convicted on 13 charges. The penalty is calculated using a table.
The total sentence is just over 31 months in prison.
About half disappear in a so-called quantity discount. Then a youth rebate reducing the remaining sentence to just under a fifth since Hassan was only 15 years old when most crimes were committed.
They also include a so-called two-thirds release. Remaining will then be a total of two months of closed youth care.
I wonder how the district court reasoned. The responsible judge does not want to give an interview, but I can speak to a judge who is appointed to answer the media's questions.
Reporter:
Carelessness in traffic, it is 229 km / h he drove on an 80-lane, he drove against the traffic ...
Mikael Swahn:
Absolutely, and I do not want to trivialize at all in any way, but it seems at the same time that in this case no one has come to physical harm when looking at the crimes.
Reporter:
It could have ended very unhappily.
Mikael Swahn:
Absolutely, absolutely, but I can say that in general and then we also talk about adults, and you can also have that, Swedish legislation often is, has traditionally been based on physical injuries and so on.
The quantity discount is motivated by the fact that the legislators think that the total penalty would be unreasonably large.
But a large part of the penalty reduction in Hassan's case is the so-called youth discount.
Jack Ågren:
It is very strict, so you go on these stencils based on age. The basic idea is still reasonable somewhere, that is why young offenders are treated differently and as we have talked about for all these reasons. It would be almost unreasonable not to consider these reasons then, which come from medicine, psychology, sociology and so on when one should as well as judge these people for crimes.
The penalty value for Hassan's crime landed after the rebates in two months of closed youth care.But since he was only 15 years old when most of the crimes were committed, special reasons for closed care are required, and according to the law, the crimes were not serious enough. So Hassan continues to receive treatment at Klarälvsgården.
Reporter:
After all, nothing remains?
Jack Ågren:
No, if we are to take that part then purely criminal, then it is so that when it comes to young offenders, the system is based on the fact that as far as possible we should not lock in, deprive people of freedom, in general and especially not young offenders. .
Jack Ågren:
These are not lawyers who have invented this. You know that they are not fully developed in the brain maybe until what you say 25-30 maybe? Incapacitation hits a young person much, much harder than it would hit an adult. You don't really understand, you don't have the same level of responsibility as an adult.
Robert Luciani:
It does feel a bit of a parody of the system, that it doesn't feel like it should be that way, absolutely, just too lenient and I don't understand that you can reason that way.
Reporter:
And then the big question is what to do then, he does not want to be locked in, of course he can accommodate.
Robert Luciani:
Absolutely. I think it is more important that I and my neighbors do not need to be exposed to more crimes than he is currently able to go out and do as he wants in the evenings. That's the priori. It's so clear to me.
Reporter:
Do you know how long it will take before he goes out and commits a crime again?
Mikael Swahn:
No, in this case, right? How long has it taken in reality?
Reporter:
From them to committing crimes.
Mikael Swahn:
No, I don't know. You know that?
Reporter:
Yes, I checked it out, it's about two weeks.
Just two weeks after the verdict, Hassan escapes for the fourth time from Klarälvsgården. He abuses staff, takes the keys and climbs over the barbed wire fence.
Reporter:
So he is out very quickly after the verdict and commits new crimes. Is it successful?
Mikael Swahn:
No, that is to say, with the fact in hand, this is not successful, this ... There are some crystal ball moments, then you are sometimes locked in precisely when it comes to young people so there is not always much to choose from. But it is this interaction between punishment of course and late rehabilitation to what extent you can actually prevent relapse.
During his time at Klarälvsgården, Hassan manages to escape a total of six times. Time and again he commits new crimes, and is brought back by police.
Leif Nilsson:
We cannot, as we said before, have bunkers, but we must have and follow the legislation to give them some freedom of movement.
Jonathan Eliasson:
What you can think of is that the large mass of our young people come here with their behavioral problems and they actually have a desire to make changes in life. There is a small percentage of people who do not want to make a change.
Leif Nilsson:
Any deviation is a failure both for the individual and for us. It is a breakdown of care that we usually call it.
Hassan:
Judge me to SiS or judge me to LSU or whatever it is I will sit in my room and I will plan on how to escape from there you understand how I mean. That's what I will do.
One afternoon in July he climbs up on a basketball basket, up on the roof, and then down - and disappears for the last time from Klarälvsgården.
Only a few weeks later he is arrested again. But after all the escapes, Hassan is now being taken to a youth home as far north in the country as possible, in Kalix. He himself goes into the role of criminal role model and gives other young people lessons in how to rob and commit burglary, the reports say.
He looks at evidence, films and pictures, he gets police and becomes - quote - "euphoric" and the crime is like a drug, he explains.
Reporter:
How then should society do about ... You have to protect everyone else out there against actually criminals like you? How to do it?
Hassan:
I say as I said, I believe in this prevention. They have no one to help one, the only thing they can and the only thing they have been able to do in recent years is to be a criminal and live in crime, then it is easy to do it.
Reporter:
But many also live honestly, many choose the path, most of them.
Hassan:
Yes, many live honestly of course.
Reporter:
So you have a choice.
Hassan:
You have a choice, of course you have a choice. But ... It's pretty simple math. You see that you can make money right away. Directly you can start making money. But there are consequences of that too.
When Hassan is 16, he is sentenced for the third time in his life. Now it will be FINAL youth care - five months.
When he comes out again after serving time, he has reached the age of 17 and gets a trial apartment in Stockholm, which the Bromma district council pays, a contact person and the opportunity to study within the framework of LVU.
Reporter:
Where could you have started something completely different?
Hassan:
I could have done it, but I'm already so changed in my behavior towards when I was younger. I have already made this transformation, I identify myself as a certain person today.
Reporter:
But you have your own will, you have your own will.
Hassan:
Own will exists, of course own will exists.
May 2017. Parking at a shopping mall in Barkarby north of Stockholm.
Hassan has been living in the experimental apartment for more than a month.
A man has just shopped and sat in the car, an exclusive Mercedes. Someone rips open the door and screams "Horunge, get out of the car or you will die!"
There are two people who attack him, he gives them the key and they drive away at high speed.
Sign:
Gas station in Västerås, May 13, 2017
This is the day after. Hassan and a thief person steal the stolen car at a gas station in Västerås.
Sign:
Ur SV
He is eventually arrested in a car taken by robbery. He is sentenced for the fourth time to a long series of crimes he committed during the three months he had the probationary period.
He is again given closed youth care, which he serves at the SiS home Sundbo in Fagersta.
"During his period of enforcement showed no will for change in his criminal lifestyle"
In the final notes from there, I can read that Hassan - quotes - "during his period of enforcement showed no desire for change in his criminal lifestyle".
But the social service once again gives him a training apartment.
Katrin Westlund:
A training apartment is aimed at the fact that after going to an institution, whether it was perhaps a sanction or a caring situation, that you need to be trained to be able to be locked out in society and live independently and have an apartment.
Reporter:
But if you ... Should you show a willingness to change your life to be the subject of such an exercise apartment?
Katrin Westlund:
There are no such specific criteria really, but it is based on the individual's needs and what is believed to be the best in the individual case.
Hassan's new apartment is located in Mälarhöjden in Stockholm. It is the healthcare company Nytida care that provides it. He also gets a contact person and an internship.
A wave of robberies is set in motion, and the police's national operational department is switched on.
Name plate:
Peter Lundberg, criminal inspector NOA
Peter Lundberg:
It works so that you rob yourself or steal the car so that you can access it with keys. Then you sell the car to the group that will make either a robbery or a smash and grab and need motor-strong and fast cars.
A petrol station in Midsummer's wreath.
Hassan has been free for three days.
Lars Fernandez gets out of his car to refuel, unaware that some have followed him in search of an Audi of this particular model.
They wanted my car keys. Then I said no, and then they hit me on the ground there and then they kept asking for the keys and I said no and protected myself in the foster position basically and then one of the guys started kicking me there.
Lars Fernandez:
In the end, I felt that this was going to end like this so I let go of everything.
Reporter:
It will end like this?
Lars Fernandez:
Yes, life ends like this. That is how I will die, and then I let go of everything and like to stop and resist, then they got hold of the car key I had in my pocket and jumped into the car and pulled away.
Reporter:
How has that affected you?
Lars Fernandez:
Yeah, it's still very surreal the whole thing, it's hard to understand that I was affected by this. I never believed that in my wildest imagination.
Hassan is one of the three men who carry out the robbery. One of the others is only 15 years old, but already suspected of a long series of crimes.
A week later in a parking lot in Sickla shopping mall in Nacka.
Two men run toward a Volkswagen Golf R, a powerful car.
Alarm operator:
Police 112 ...
Alarm call (distortion of voice):
Hi, we have just been robbed here of a car ... Sickla at Ica.
Alarm Operator: Did they use
any weapons?
Alarm call (distortion of voice):
Yes, they had a hammer. There were two. They had some robber hat on.
Alarm operator: The
car is on its way.
The police are now on the trail after the violent robbery. One of the places they are looking for is Hassan's apartment to which he was accessed by the social services.
They ended up under surveys in around Klubbacken it was, in Mälarhöjden. And eventually we were able to narrow down what real estate he was in.
Reporter:
Was it used by all of these people in this gang, so to speak? Was it a center?
Peter Lundberg:
It was he who lived there, there were more people sleeping over where it was and there was no problem so to speak.
Reporter:
So he probably used it to plan his crimes?
Peter Lundberg:
Yes he did, obviously they did.
Reporter:
So what do you think about giving him a trial apartment, a mobile phone…
Peter Lundberg:
I think that ... My opinion is that it is doomed to fail. And this time it could actually end really bad for both the robbery that is on Circle K with Lars so Lars could have, he actually could, they could have killed him ... The other robberies are the same, it's easy that they are overpowered, they manage to keep their limits, because there is quite a lot of violence that one uses to get over a car key.
Reporter:
So that the social service and this healthcare company or New Age care they have a responsibility here?
Peter Lundberg:
Yes I think so. I think so.
The healthcare company Nytida care explains via e-mail that a fully equipped apartment costs
SEK 1,000 per day including a contact person five hours a week. But that there is no locked-in housing with surveillance and that they have no right to take compulsory measures. They point out that it is the social service that is the client.
Martin Lirén:
I can really come back to what they are about for us is to find the best way to support and help the individual find their own motivation.
Reporter:
Here, after all, the training apartment became one of the municipality's paid base to continue committing crimes, does that sound like a failure?
Martin Lirén:
I cannot speak on a case-by-case basis.
Reporter:
So one finds ... "he has shown no will for change in his criminal way of life" l those are the final notes from Sundbo and then he gets this support apartment.
Peter Lundberg:
Yes it is ... I am unresponsive. I don't know what was expected. What is it that does, someone else must have said that this is wrong, their opinion does not apply. This was expected then.
Peter Lundberg:
A guy who has been taken care of to or from or has been subject to various social efforts since he was nine to ten ... to give him his own accommodation, a mobile phone, an internship ... that here you can manage now and then you call and call if there is a problem. I do not know if this is what you expect him to manage his own accommodation? Is he able to resist his friends? Does he manage to live a normal life?
Hassan is arrested after 12 days in custody. He has in the short time been able to commit two robberies, three serious thefts and receiving.
I visit him in prison again and let him see the report, here the abuse by Lars Fernandez.
Reporter:
Do you feel no guilt at all, do you feel no regrets when you see it?
Hassan:
Uhhh, so I ... If I say like this I still feel that I've received my punishment for it.
Reporter:
But you caused him some damage ....
Hassan:
Yes...
Reporter:
Do you have any such thoughts about what you set out to do with him, for example?
Hassan:
Yes, so this is what I mean, yes, sure. It's not fun that way though ... And since then I have no special feelings for the proprietor, but I understand him.
Lars Fernandez:
Yes ... I think it is regrettable, most regrettable that ... the youngest was after all 15 and it was probably he who committed the worst violence in the abuse, but they were sentenced together then and I find it regrettable that you do not take hold in these guys in time.
Reporter:
What would you do?
Lars Fernandez:
I don't know, but nothing happens. As far as I understand they have kept going, the list is long with crimes or suspicions of crimes these guys have committed. All of them what I understand.
Hassan is now serving a sentence of one year and eight months, including a two-thirds release.
So in just over a month he will have to leave the facility.
Hassan:
I do not care about the institution, it is obvious that the term of office is something, but thus I mean it is a locked leisure yard for adult men, it is not so that they are, it is not so that you are put on other thoughts in here or so that it's hard in some way.
Reporter:
But that's not a deterrent?
Hassan:
Not for five cents, definitely not. I mean put a young person in there, he will make new contacts. He will be able to develop, in that person's occupation. So this to me is just a pause button in my life right now. If ... yes ... for a while, life begins again and I press play.
Reporter:
Do you regret what you did? Do you regret your crimes?
Hassan:
No, I do not regret it, I do not regret my crimes. I don't believe it will help me.
Reporter:
And while you feel that way, you have treated people badly.
Hassan:
I have treated people badly, but I do not ask for theirs ... that they will forgive me for it. I understand that they have their opinions, I understand that they don't like me.