There are several contributing reasons for the large decrease. One is that imports have decreased due to changed legislation in China, from where a large part of the fentanyl analogues came. Another is a greater knowledge of the risks of the substance, which may appear 50 times more powerful than heroin.
Tried legally Another strong contributing factor to the fact that the fentanyl analogs have been largely eradicated on the Swedish market are various legal processes that are driven towards salespeople. Previously, two brothers from the Stockholm area have been sentenced in both district court and court court for gross negligence to another death in eight cases after selling fentanyl analogues.
On Tuesday, January 28, the district court hearing will begin against a seller in Östergötland, who has been charged with manslaughter since eleven young men died of the fentanyl he sold over the internet.
However, one of the brothers in the first case has appealed his ruling to the Supreme Court, which will try the case in March. The police fear that a free judgment would open the doors to new online drug dealers who want to make as much money as the brothers made at their business.
- That's what we're afraid of. That is exactly what we are afraid of. Because then society would give a clear signal that one's responsibility is abolished despite the fact that x number of hundred people die from substances sold via the network by people who make money from it. It is quite obvious that there is an imminent risk that others will start, ”says Stewe Alm, strategic analyst at the National Police Operations Department (Noa).