After TV4 Nyheter’s reporting that elderly people who are cheated by fraudsters do not receive compensation, the Crime Victims’ Center is now demanding that the law be changed.
– So that even elderly people who are exposed to this cruel privacy-violating crime can receive compensation for the violation, says Sven-Erik Alhem, chairman of the Victims’ Shelter.
TV4 Nyheterna has told about 83-year-old Ingvar Olsson and eight other elderly people who were cheated of money and valuables. But despite the fact that three perpetrators have been sentenced, Ingvar and the others do not receive compensation for the violation.
The court started from the Damages Act and held that the elderly did not feel anxiety or fear at the time of the crime, but only afterwards.
– The era of bank robbers is over, but frauds work just fine where you can sit protected behind a screen for a while. The changed pattern of behavior should lead to an amendment to the Damages Act so that even elderly people who are subjected to this cruel privacy-violating crime can also receive compensation for the violation, says Sven-Erik Alhem, chairman of the association Brottsofferjouren.
Alhem turns against the court’s assessment of what counts as an infringement.
– I think it is a very simplistic approach. The suffering can be lifelong for the elderly who have been exposed to this type of fraud, although they did not immediately realize at the time of the act what it was all about.