Ardalan Shekarabi rages against the government’s visitation zones: “Tragic”

The government’s visitation zones are sawn by the Social Democrats, who will vote no to the proposal.

– We will vote no and we will put forward our own proposal to improve visitation opportunities throughout Sweden, says S’s legal policy spokesperson Ardalan Shekarabi.

On Thursday morning, the government and the Sweden Democrats announced that the Tidö parties are now going ahead with introducing visitation zones.

This means that the police will be given extended powers to body search and search vehicles without suspicion of crime, within demarcated areas.

The zones are to be introduced on March 28.

The Social Democrats are very critical of the proposal. The party’s legal policy spokesperson Ardalan Shekarabi announces that S will vote against.

– We will vote no and we will put forward our own proposal to improve visitation opportunities throughout Sweden, he says.

The police have requested the proposal that the government is now moving forward with. A similar solution has also been introduced in Denmark. But expert authorities have warned that the zones could lead to the privacy of citizens being violated.

S’s proposal will not have any geographical limitation and should generally make it easier for the police to be able to carry out visits and searches of vehicles, says Ardalan Shekarabi.

The S-top sees the government’s proposal, which he believes could lead to a deterioration of trust between police officers and citizens in certain areas and thus be counterproductive.

– This is a tragic example of Swedish criminal policy that puts a lot of energy, a lot of time at the ministry, on a proposal that most experts agree will not play a major role.

The situation is described by the government as so urgent that it is justified with this kind of restrictions, how do you see it?

– This is not something that will play any major role. Most experts agree on that.

– We are moving forward with a proposal that applies to better visitation opportunities throughout Sweden. We don’t believe in this zoning scheme.