I always thought--comparing to other countries--that Sweden are having a very weak law. But we have a weak animal law too--do we have one?-- like many other countries.
This is not Amore!
"Killer Swede The New York Times reports from Stockholm on the curious case of Karl Helge Hampus Svensson, a 31-year-old man who was admitted last year to study medicine at the prestigious Karolinska Institute. It turned out there was a literal skeleton in his figurative closet:Last fall, institute officials received two anonymous letters claiming that Mr. Svensson had been a Nazi sympathizer who was paroled from a maximum-security prison after being convicted in 2000 of murder, a killing the police called a hate crime.
In 2000, Mr. Svensson, then Mr. Hellekant, was convicted of shooting a trade union worker, Bjorn Soderberg, 41, seven times after a loud argument outside Mr. Soderberg's apartment in a Stockholm suburb on the night of Oct. 12, 1999. Mr. Soderberg had complained about a co-worker who displayed his neo-Nazi beliefs at work, leading to the co-worker's loss of a job and union position. The co-worker was a friend of Mr. Svensson's. At the time of the killing, according to court records and Stockholm police officials, Mr. Svensson was under surveillance for neo-Nazi activities by the Swedish Security Service, the equivalent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Despite the conviction, Mr. Svensson maintained that he did not commit the killing.
After serving 6 1/2 years of an 11-year sentence, Mr. Svensson was released on parole in February 2007. According to Swedish prison standards, inmates are usually released after serving two-thirds of their sentence.
There are no rules in place allowing the institute to expel Svensson for murder, even though the Swedish licensing board says it will not allow him to practice medicine. So instead he was booted from school on a technicality: he "had apparently falsified the name on his high school transcripts."
Isn't the real problem here, though, that Sweden has a criminal justice system so lenient that a guy spends only 6 1/2 years behind bars for murder?"
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