On March 10, 2018, the now 33-year-old man was moving with an automatic carbine and a gun near the People's Park. The man was arrested shortly thereafter by the force of intervention.

According to the man, he sat with some friends and drank alcohol and used cocaine. He alleged that three men stormed in and demanded him for an old gambling debt. Inside the apartment should have it been a fight. The man claimed he fled with one of the attacking men's Kalashnikov.

The district court went on the man's explanation. In order for a person to be considered to possess a firearm, he or she must have the weapon in his possession.

"To take it up and watch it and then put it back down, or to hold it to someone else for a short time, is not counted as possession," the district court wrote in its judgment.

The High Court turns

But the High Court does not trust the man's explanation, partly in light of the fact that he had ammunition for the weapon in the apartment. Therefore, the High Court now condemns the man to three years and three months in prison.

Tomorrow, Friday, the man is brought to trial in a new case involving serious arms crime. This applies to the incident that occurred on Spångatan in central Malmö, where an entire block was blocked off for several hours.