For the first time, a verdict has been handed down in cases against those who have ordered young Swedes to commit crimes.
In one of the so-called Swedish cases, two men from the biker community were sentenced to 16 years and 15 years and eight months in prison on Tuesday, respectively.
This is reported by the Copenhagen Police.
The men have confessed in court that last autumn they ordered a young Swede to commit a murder at Blågårds Plads in Copenhagen.
This is the first time that actual perpetrators have been convicted in the long series of cases where young Swedes traveled by train and plane to Denmark last year to commit violent acts.
Previously, sentences have been handed down against helpers who, for example, have provided accommodation or picked up the travelers after their arrival in Denmark.
But now the real perpetrators have been sentenced. The confession was made in a court hearing on Friday, and the verdict was handed down on Tuesday morning.
The intended victim was from the Loyal to Familia gang. However, the crime was not carried out.
With a gun and an electric bike
The young Swede was sent towards inner Nørrebro to commit the murder late in the evening of September 10th last year.
But just over two hours later, the Swede was arrested by the police, according to a press release from Copenhagen Police about the case.
The 19-year-old Swede came to Denmark on September 7. In the following days, he was housed by the two now-convicted bikers. And eventually they equipped him with a gun and an electric bike.
The two are members of the Hells Angels and the support group AK81, respectively.
One, 29-year-old Abdullah Cakici, is not only punished with an additional sentence of 15 years and eight months.
He will be stripped of his Danish citizenship and expelled from Denmark permanently. He already holds a Turkish passport.
The other, 26-year-old Lucas Møller Birch Hansen, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Both have appealed to the Eastern High Court. They want the sentence reduced.
Ingen rabat
In the district court, the 29-year-old’s defense attorney, attorney Rune Wiborg, asked for a sentence of between nine and a half years and ten years in prison. He wanted a discount given for the confession.
But the district court’s verdict has reached a completely different result. There is no basis for mitigating the sentence because of the confession, points out special prosecutor Laura Birch. In the press release, she emphasizes the very serious nature of the crime.
“It is often seen in confession cases that a form of ‘confession discount’ is given, but the court has not found any reason for that here,” she says.
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