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fullscreen Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer is reported to the Riksdag’s constitutional committee by the Green Party. Archive image. Photo: Samuel Steén/TT
The Green Party reports Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer (M) to the Riksdag’s Constitution Committee (KU) about how the government wants to speed up the introduction of visitation zones in Sweden.
The MP believes that the preparation of the bill endangers legal certainty and may violate the constitution.
The government shortened the referral period from the normal three months to five weeks, also over the Christmas holidays. Bodies such as the Svea Court of Appeal and the Judicial Ombudsman have criticized the short referral period.
“Gunnar Strömmer wants to signal action and that he is tackling gang crime, but what he is doing is careless,” writes the Green Party’s Rasmus Ling in a press release.
The government intends to present a bill on visitation zones – or security zones – on 20 February. They also wanted to shorten the motion time for the Riksdag from 15 to three days, something that was however blocked by the opposition.