Convicted of school crimes can chat from inside Sis home

Several boys placed in closed youth care for carrying out or planning deadly school attacks have been given free access to the internet.

Thus, they can continue to be active on forums that glorify weapons and acts of violence, shows an examination by Expo.

In the review, Expo has mapped users on both open and closed online forums where young boys are radicalized and inspire each other to commit acts of violence.

Despite the fact that several of those active on the forums have been sentenced to closed youth care for having carried out or planned deadly school attacks, they have been given free access to the internet in the Sis homes where they have been placed.

An example is the 15-year-old in Eslöv who was sentenced to closed youth care for two and a half years after he stabbed a teacher at a school in August 2021. Despite the fact that the boy was judged by the police to be an ideologically motivated violent extremist, he was given free access to the internet and continues to be a major player in the forums where school attacks are glorified.

From inside the Sis home, he inspires and helps others plan attacks together with his 16-year-old friend who committed an act in Kristianstad and an 18-year-old who was convicted in 2022 of planning a school act in the Stockholm area, according to the review.

Staff at Sis have previously sounded the alarm that young people who have been sentenced to closed youth care have been able to call, chat and use the internet without monitoring or control of what they do.

Sis homes have the option of restricting access to the internet through a coercive measure, when it can be considered harmful to the young person or someone else. However, the restriction only applies for 14 days at a time and must, according to the rules, be used restrictively.

In June, the government proposed that young people in Sis homes should have severely limited access to mobile phones and the internet, especially in homes with a higher security rating, and a concrete legislative proposal is expected in the autumn.