The Swedish Ministry of Justice answered recently Moroccan citizen Mohamed Khamouna, who wrote an email to the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström condemning the act of chokeholding a 9-year-old Swedish boy of Moroccan origins few weeks ago, and asking the authorities to open an investigation on the matter.
As follow is the email received by Mr. Mohamed Khamouna, from the Swedish Ministry of Justice, as received by The Moroccan Times:
“Thank you for your email messages to Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström. They have been forwarded to the Ministry of Justice and I have been asked to provide you with some general information.
The Swedish Constitution prohibits the Government or individual ministers from intervening or commenting on specific cases handled by the independent Swedish authorities and Courts. The Government Offices can therefore not comment or intervene in this specific matter, although we have the deepest respect for your concern about the little boy.
I can inform you though that the Police Authority has initiated an investigation about the incident when a security guard took the boy in charge at the train station in Malmö. In a reply to a letter from the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman regarding this incident, the National Police Commissioner informed that since 2012, the education for security guards includes the Convention of the Rights of the Child. Security guards have been informed that there are other rules when children are involved, for example that children should not be detained and that children need to be handled more carefully and that the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. The education is subject to continuous development based on current events and the National Police Commissioner is considering whether there might be reason to make a new evaluation of the education.
Best regards,
Anneli Lagerberg
Communication Division
Ministry of Justice” [End of Email]
The Moroccan Times.
