A major police operation was launched at a school in Enköping last fall when a violent extremist carried two knives and had an iron pipe in the school locker. The man, who was also a student at the school, was sentenced by the district court and the court to daily fines for violating the knife law. According to District Court Prosecutor Michael Ehrencrona, the man is a member of the Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR).
Want to see if it is a serious crime
Now the state prosecutor is appealing the High Court judgment and wants the Supreme Court to take up the case to try when a violation of the knife law should be classified as gross. The Prosecutor General considers that there are several circumstances that should make the crime considered serious.
- It is partly because the larger knife was mounted in the trouser waistband and could be pulled out quickly, and partly the crime was committed in a school. In recent years, there have been several serious attacks on schools with weapons, one in Sweden. This development means that one should look more seriously at holding knives in schools than one could have foreseen when the law was established. There are also some additional circumstances that justify the crime being serious, state prosecutor Petra Lundh said in a press release.
The student has previously refused a crime.