New opportunities to combat online recruitment

Mattias Vepsä (S)

Madam Speaker! We will now debate the government's proposal on new opportunities to combat online recruitment. It is a proposal that we Social Democrats welcome. We have pushed for it to be put in place.

Just over a year ago, the Committee on Justice took the initiative for a special inquiry into how children and young people are recruited into crime via social media. We did this because reality has changed. We see that the gangs are no longer just standing outside schools, youth centers, and sports venues. They are also in the phones, on Snapchat, on TikTok, and in encrypted chats. Where children are, the gangs are, and they offer money to transport weapons, sell drugs, and even commit murders.

We Social Democrats already demanded in the autumn that the legislation should be expedited, and we pushed for it in January. We think it is good that the law is finally being implemented, even though the entry into force occurs in the middle of the summer. It would have been much better if it had occurred before the summer.

It is about countering online recruitment to crime, not least of children and young people. And it is about practically combating what has become a kind of digital employment agency for murder and serious crime.

The law means that the police should be able to quickly demand that the gangs' recruitment advertisements be removed. The platforms must act within one hour. If they do not, sanction fees can be imposed.

We do not accept that terrorist organizations can use social media for recruitment. Nor shall we accept that gangs can use social media for recruitment. It is about facing a reality where gangs no longer recruit only in schools, on streets and squares, but also through these murder advertisements, which are often directly targeted at children and young people. Therefore, we are positive about and welcome this law.

Madam Speaker! The development in recent years, where more and more children and young people are being drawn into the most serious forms of crime and are suspected of participating in murders, bombings, and shootings, shows that sharper tools are required.

Firstly, the recruitment is not only physical, as I have just spoken about. It is also digital. Then the tools must also be digital. It is completely unacceptable that the networks are allowed to openly advertise and offer so-called jobs, in the form of assignments for serious crime. The police must therefore be able to be lightning-fast and act where the recruitment actually takes place.

Secondly, the time aspect is crucial. A post or an advertisement on the internet can achieve enormous reach and reach thousands of young people in just a few minutes. In the worst case, it may remain open for several hours. With clarity and simplicity when requesting that this material be taken down, the risk of more children and young people being drawn into the grossest form of crime is reduced.

Thirdly, it is about protecting children and young people. Many of those who are recruited are minors. They are cynically exploited by criminal actors. Here, the large platforms today have a much greater responsibility than they have taken until now. Recruitment for murder missions and serious crime must never be treated as just any content.

Madam Speaker! We must simultaneously be clear that the legislation and the possibility to take down advertisements are necessary steps, but they are not sufficient in themselves. SD and the government prioritize large tax cuts for the very richest in our society while simultaneously pursuing a policy that involves large cuts in school and social services and which has led to increased unemployment with almost 100,000 more people. Of these, tens of thousands are young people. It has not increased society's resilience – on the contrary.

The recruitment of new members has been allowed to continue, and many are still in line to join the gangs. This cannot continue, and a new direction in politics is required. We must do more to break the recruitment into the gangs, with strong preventive measures, functioning schools, present adults, and a society that catches young people in time.

We will vote yes to this law. The police need more tools to stop murder advertisements and the recruitment of children online. But it does not end there. We will ensure that fewer children end up in situations where an advertisement from a criminal gang appears as a better opportunity in life than seeking an education and getting a job.

Every child who is recruited by a gang is a failure for society. But every child who is prevented and never recruited is a future that is saved.

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Fredrik Kärrholm (M)

Madam Speaker! We hear from the Social Democratic member that more needs to be done. I agree. Despite the fact that we have a government that, over a period of four years, has done more than any government has ever done to combat crime, we need to do more.

The question is simply how the Social Democrats are going to achieve this. We know that the criminals will never give up. They will never lay down. If we reduce the pressure, they will once again move forward their positions.

I welcome that the Social Democrats are voting for the Moderates' and the rest of the government's proposal today that the police should be able to take down recruitment advertisements. But we see that the Left Party and the Green Party reserve their position. It is part of a pattern. The Social Democrats' coalition partners consistently say: no, less and slower.

My question to the member is therefore: How is this offensive to continue?

Furthermore, it is not only Miljöpartiet and Vänstern that are a problem. It is also the own party. From local associations, for example in Täby, protests are heard that far too much is being done. The member says that more should be done, but locally it is said that too much is being done.

In Botkyrka, a gang of serious criminals has nominated the Social Democrats' sitting municipal councilors. The same gang is now supporting a parliamentary candidate. The risk is that the party will have members here in this chamber who are indebted to serious criminals.

Given all this, my question to the member is: How is the offensive against crime actually going to continue?

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Mattias Vepsä (S)

Madam Speaker! Thank you, Fredrik Kärrholm, for a good question!

As a clarification to everyone following the debate on social media or on TV at home, I want to point out that it appears clearly to me, at least for me, that the reservation we are to take a position on here concerns an evaluation. I think that an evaluation is perhaps not so revolutionary, but it is something that the Riksdag usually engages in. One evaluates the legislations that one makes decisions on. We can well discuss whether it is a brake in this work or not.

Secondly, one might reflect on the report that the police released in December, which shows that many young people are still in the queue. The number of gang criminals is still extremely high, 17,500, of which many are under 18 years old. It is thus during Fredrik Kärrholm's time that the new recruitment to the gangs continues to be historically high.

It is also during the Moderate-led government's time in power that the number of young people under 15 years of age who are involved in murder cases has increased a hundredfold. They are suspected of involvement in murders, shootings, and explosions and are therefore detained or are subjects of evidentiary proceedings in our Swedish courts.

We have extended our arm and hand to Fredrik Kärrholm's party in order to be able to find a long-term solution to the long-term problems we face. But at the same time, one worries about a party like the Moderaterna, which, despite extremely high costs for municipalities, schools, and social services, continues to cut back on the preventive work in order to be able to keep the gangs out of the door. It is about strong schools, small classes for small children, more social secretaries and field assistants, better opportunities for the social, and not least more people in work, especially in those groups that today stand outside and have a weaker position towards the gangs.

This is a policy that Fredrik Kärrholm has to stand for. Will you continue to push for tax cuts for the rich before investments in preventive measures?

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Fredrik Kärrholm (M)

Madam Speaker! There were so many absurdities piled on top of each other that it is difficult to address everything. But we can start with the narrative that this problem has arisen during our mandate period. In 2014, there were 37 young people between 15 and 20 years old who were suspected of murder, attempted murder, or deadly violence. In 2022, when we took power, it had increased to 97 individuals. The increase has been sharp.

Thanks to our policy, we are now turning the development around. We are pushing back the gangs and the clans. They develop their methods, as I just said – they will never lay down. But we are pushing back the gangs. Our policy works.

You lack answers on what should continue to be done. Your conception of what crime is caused by constantly boils down to economic redistribution and benefits. But that is not what it is about. It is about that we in Sweden have a problem with a gangster culture. You are too well-read on Marx. Your socialist ideology implies blindfolds. What we have in Sweden is a cultural problem. We have a problem with seriously criminal individuals who have been role models. They have been able to be role models because they have been able to show that crime has paid off.

Now we will ensure that more criminals are locked up, thanks to more police and more investigated crimes. More role models disappear, and more criminals are deported. More criminals' properties are seized. And the preventive work is restructured and becomes more effective, with earlier and clearer interventions: parenting support programs and a completely new Social Services Act.

The cuts you are talking about are occurring in Social Democratic municipalities, for example in the city of Stockholm, which is totally mismanaged by you. There, they borrow 1 million kronor a day and are forced to make a lot of cuts. It is in that city that you represent where the problems with a lack of preventive work exist.

(THIRD DEPUTY SPEAKER: Even though this is the last day that we have case debates, at least for now, it still applies that everyone speaks through the Speaker.)

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Mattias Vepsä (S)

Madam Speaker! It is pleasing that Fredrik Kärrholm at least somewhere acknowledges that the Social Democratic government in 2014 inherited a problem with gang crime. We have for a long time discussed that this is not a problem that arose in 2022, but a problem that Sweden has struggled with for several years – for almost a decade and a half. If one listens to the police's alarm reports before 2010, one hears that warnings are issued regarding this situation.

In that situation, one would have wished for more than that we inherited a Ministry of Justice that was largely empty of proposals and furthermore had suspended police trainings. Here in Stockholm, if we are to speak of it, there were zero admitted to the police training in 2014. We pushed the pedal to the floor to reverse the development. We expanded the Swedish police, tightened eighty penalties, and simultaneously invested in schools, social services, and a more just society.

One can have different views on cause and effect and what causes crime. Just because one is vulnerable and poor does not mean one commits crimes; that is correct. But we know that there is a strong correlation between crime and inequality and environments where poverty is allowed to grow and the neglect is great – where the schools do not function and where unemployment and language deficiencies are greater than in the majority society. We want to build away that inequality and at the same time continue to develop the police and the toolbox.

I am certain that we in the Social Democrats, together with the coalition parties that we will shake hands with after the election – first we will go to the election as an independent party, and then we will put Sweden first – will find a way forward so that we can break the recruitment to the gangs. At the same time as we do this through broad, functioning social interventions and investments in school, social services, and the families' finances, we can also sharpen the toolbox and ensure that the police have the tools required.

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Gudrun Nordborg (V)

Madam Speaker! From the Left Party's side, I also want to emphasize that this is an important reform. The proposal aims to counter the online recruitment of, among others, children and young people into crime and to combat what is often called crime as a service – that crimes are advertised for a fee, primarily on digital service platforms. It is deeply tragic that this is happening, but it is an effect of the development we see: that the criminal gangs are finding new forms of operation and pushing back some of the previous activities from the side of society.

I also think it is a sign that punishment is not enough. We must make more preventive efforts. Limiting online recruitment is such a measure to try to prevent recruitment.

I also want to emphasize that we from Vänsterpartiet stand behind the government's proposal. The reservation that we have together with Miljöpartiet is not about us being against the proposal, on the contrary. We want it to work well, and therefore we propose an evaluation within about five years. We think it is wise that we can assess whether a new reform works well or not.

I could also mention that one of the referral bodies, the Gender Equality Authority, suggests that they would like to see continuous reporting from the police on how this works. It may be a future step, but we should in any case, after a few years, try to assess whether this was good and sufficient or if more is needed in this sector.

Since then, it has been obvious to us in Vänsterpartiet that we must invest even much more in socially preventive measures, with a broad, security-creating welfare and early interventions for the children who appear to be in the danger zone. It should therefore be both general and individually adapted.

This is very much about socioeconomic conditions – the risk of ending up in crime is greater for poor children than for children with more affluent living conditions. That is not to say that poor children always commit crimes, nor that immigrants, who are pointed out as a risk factor by many, always commit crimes. They are in the crime statistics, but not solely because of immigration but, again, because socioeconomic factors are making an impact.

I would also like to say that I perceive this proposal as quite well thought out. It is therefore about the police being able to report and demand a fairly immediate action from the hosting service platforms that post advertisements where children are recruited. If the platform company receives an order from the police, a very rapid action is required. Within one hour, the material and the advertisements must be removed.

It can also be about the recruitment of adults. In that case, the recruitment content should apply to somewhat more serious crimes that can lead to imprisonment for two years or more. But when it comes to the group that is most important to protect, children and young people under 18 years of age, this can be required regardless of which crime the recruitment was intended for.

One has been insightful and realized that the recruitment of children can sometimes involve slightly less serious crimes, which then cause the child to get stuck in criminality and, among other things, through extortion, can be made to commit increasingly serious crimes. Also, that small entry into criminality can be a decisive and very dangerous step in a criminal career that one is forced into. It is also important to realize that we must reach those who act so threateningly towards children.

It is also important regarding the requirements for evidence, which are quite reasonable. It is about what one can reasonably assume the advertisements are to be used for. And when it concerns minors, i.e., the children, it is meant that it is sufficient that the material is directed at or has been accessible to young people and that it can reasonably be assumed that someone will take the bait. It is therefore also about a great focus on the children. I also want to say that it is about what occurs targeted towards Swedes on our Swedish territory.

I also want to briefly mention that from the Left Party's side, we look forward to the report that is to come from Brå in October this year, where we will see more examples of how we can limit the recruitment of young people. But today, we are satisfied that the government has presented this proposal to limit online recruitment, and we want to follow up on it with an evaluation.

I vote in favor of reservation 1.

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Pontus Andersson Garpvall (SD)

Madam Speaker! The recruitment of children and young people into serious crime has to a large extent shifted from the physical environment to the digital one.

Today, murder assignments are being posted openly on social media such as TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. Serious crimes such as bombings and shootings are advertised openly on social media and coordinated by criminals through various digital services. It can involve transporting weapons, money, or drugs, shooting someone, or carrying out a bombing. This is sometimes called crime as a service and is a phenomenon that has developed and increased in recent times.

Those who are drawn into this serious crime and take on the murder assignments are often children and young people who lack any connection to both the instigator, the intended crime victim, and the place where the crime is to be committed.

The development towards a service market for crime is extremely serious and needs to be broken with immediate measures. Such tools exist today for the police when they need to act forcefully against, for example, terrorist content online, but not against the gangs' digital recruitment. Therefore, the Riksdag will later today make a decision on a new law regarding the removal of recruitment content online.

Through the proposed regulation, it is made possible for a competent authority to decide on an order for recruitment content to be removed or made inaccessible. An order for removal shall be directed at the hosting service provider, i.e., the one who provides the platform where the content is located. The content shall be removed or made inaccessible as soon as possible and at the latest within one hour from the time the hosting service provider received the order. A sanction fee may be imposed on a hosting service provider that violates its obligations under the law. The fee may amount to 5 million kronor.

The change is part of the work that Sverigedemokraterna and the government are doing to counter the serious crime that has been allowed to grow in our country for a long time.

Madam Speaker! I move for approval of the Committee on Justice's proposal and rejection of the motions.

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TREDJE VICE TALMANNEN

Now I have heard members use an English expression several times without translation. You know that it is okay to use another language, but in that case, translate it! Here it could perhaps be translated as "gross crimes on demand". I hope that this can be handled in the future.

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Ulrika Westerlund (MP)

Madam Speaker! Dear colleagues! I want to begin by emphasizing that the Green Party also stands behind this proposal and that the reservation, just as the Left Party mentioned, concerns evaluation etc. to ensure that the legislation is sufficiently accurate and effective.

Recruitment into criminal networks is a serious societal challenge that Miljöpartiet takes most seriously. Children and young people are exploited by gangs to commit crimes, and recruitment takes place today in both physical environments and on digital platforms. Therefore, it is important to have accurate and effective tools to counter the involvement of children and young people in crime, even when contacts are made and assignments are conveyed online. Here, an English expression also appeared, but perhaps it is so well-established in the Swedish language that it may pass.

Miljöpartiet therefore stands behind the government's proposal for new opportunities to combat online recruitment. We are pleased that the proposal has been put in place so quickly.

To prevent crime, it is crucial to stop the new recruitment to the gangs. In that work, the platforms need to take greater responsibility for removing harmful and illegal content. The police's presence in digital environments also needs to be strengthened.

The voluntary mechanisms and the cooperation between platforms and law enforcement agencies that exist today are important, but they have not proven sufficient to meet the serious development of gang recruitment online.

Madam Speaker! The justice system must have effective tools to prevent serious crime, but new powers must be legally secure, accurate, and proportionate. Against that background, the Green Party now wishes to highlight certain important objections to the government's proposal that have been put forward by several referral bodies and the Council on Legislation.

To begin with, online recruitment must be able to be combated while freedom of expression and freedom of information are protected. Among others, Journalistförbundet, Sveriges advokatsamfund and Tidningsutgivarna argue that the government's proposal is deficient in this regard. The referral bodies see, among other things, risks that non-criminal expressions online can be removed and therefore consider that it should appear in the law that the provision does not apply to the area of freedom of the press and freedom of expression.

The Council on Legislation also has views on the scope of the law. Regarding the drafting of paragraphs 1 and 2, the Council on Legislation argues that the regulations open up for interpretation and therefore may mean that the law receives a broader scope of application than intended. The Council on Legislation therefore suggests a more accurate formulation of the paragraphs, but the government chooses not to proceed with the Council on Legislation's proposal.

The referral bodies also point out other parts of the bill that could result in an overly broad application. Among others, Journalistförbundet questions whether content that can reasonably be assumed to be a step in involving a minor in criminality is always criminal. And Advokatsamfundet considers the evidentiary requirement to be low. Hovrätten för Nedre Norrland also points out that the provision on involving a minor could have an all-too-broad scope of application and questions the proportionality.

Another deficiency with the government's proposal is that the new law is not met with expanded resources. The police state that the work of handling recruitment content, following up on injunctions, and managing sanction cases can become resource-intensive and lead to increased costs for the agency that are not covered by existing appropriations. The agency also assesses that it could involve a relatively large number of cases per year. Bris has simultaneously warned that a lack of resources could mean that the legislation does not achieve its intended impact.

Miljöpartiet shares the views of the police and Bris. In order for the law to protect children and young people from being drawn into gangs, expanded resources are required. We regret that the government has not provided this.

Madam Speaker! In light of the risks with the proposal that are raised, the Green Party considers that there are strong reasons to closely monitor and control how the law is applied in practice. This is also raised by some referral bodies. Google Sweden AB and Tech Sverige argue that the platforms should be able to request independent review of orders, while the Gender Equality Authority has pointed out the need to consider continuous review of the police's application of the law.

The Government refers to the fact that the platforms will be able to appeal decisions on injunctions, but the Green Party can state that it does not quite appear to be a sufficient protection for individuals. Therefore, we urge the Government to return to the Riksdag within a five-year period with an evaluation of the law. In this way, we will have the opportunity to follow the application of the law and ensure that it has the intended effect, which is to remove the gangs' recruitment advertisements online and protect children without restricting freedom of expression and information, creating application problems for the justice system, or affecting the innocent.

In conclusion, the work to combat recruitment into criminal networks must not be reduced to a question of removing content online. We know, of course, that a significant part of the recruitment takes place on schoolyards, on football pitches, in residential areas, and in other physical places in children's everyday lives. The most important preventive work is therefore to ensure that children do not end up in the vulnerable situation where gangs can exploit them, regardless of whether the recruitment attempts occur online or in physical places. This requires significant and long-term preventive measures in schools, healthcare, social services, leisure activities, and civil society. We also want to direct special support to children and young people who are in the risk zone of being drawn into crime.

I move for approval of the reservation – there is only one. It concerns an evaluation of, among other things, the resource requirements and the accuracy.

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Fredrik Kärrholm (M)

Madam Speaker! During the years when the Social Democrats misruled Sweden, organized crime and deadly gang violence escalated. Between 2012 and 2022, firearm violence in Sweden tripled. Among those suspected of murder, manslaughter, and deadly violence in 2014 were 34 youths aged 15–20. When we took power in 2022, the figure was 97.

This development is, of course, appalling. To reverse it, we have during this mandate period carried out extensive preventive work. We have invested in parental support programs and developed a completely new Social Services Act. We have given the police the authority to conduct wiretapping preventively, even against children under the age of 15.

An important part of the preventive work is, among other things, that we ensure more gang members are locked up and remain locked up. Then the role models disappear. Then those who recruit disappear.

Now, an additional preventive measure is being added. The police shall be able to request that digital recruitment advertisements be removed. This is an important measure because the gangs have increasingly begun to post murder assignments online, on social media.

This is one of the most cynical aspects of contemporary crime: that children and young people are exploited to commit serious crimes. Now we are making it more difficult. But it is not always the case that the children are lured into this. Sometimes they actively seek out the opportunity to commit crimes and become part of the gangs. Police describe what I myself saw in my previous profession as a police officer: Children and young people want to commit crimes to earn quick money, but also because there is a striving for a criminal identity, which provides social status. To speak only of new recruitment therefore leads the thought astray. It is equally much about socialization. The crime problem in Sweden is fundamentally a cultural problem.

We have a widespread gangster culture with destructive ideals that make young boys want to murder. It is ultimately a consequence of a migration policy that has created an exclusion, a migration policy for which the Social Democrats, above all, are responsible. In this exclusion, the gangster culture has emerged.

What we have done during this mandate period to reverse the development is that we have invested in more police, locked up more criminals, deported more criminals, arrested gang leaders abroad, seized criminal property, removed criminal role models, shown young people that crime does not pay, prevented crime with preventive wiretapping, invested in parental support programs, invested in schools, limited immigration, created stability and order in society and created a society where actions have consequences – where honest work pays off better and crime is punished more severely.

Thanks to this policy, we now see that the shootings are decreasing. The gangs and clans are being weakened.

In stark contrast to this, the political left offers nothing other than saying no to most of what we do – no, less, slower. Their perspective on action, which we hear about from this speaker's podium, is hopeless. Over-reliance on subsidies and more economic redistribution is hopeless. The belief in higher taxes is hopeless.

Unfortunately, the gangs have not yet been defeated. We are on the right track, but we are not there yet. The criminals will never lie down and give up. If the pressure on the criminal networks decreases, they will once again move forward their positions. Therefore, the election this autumn is immensely significant. The ongoing offensive against crime must continue.

The police are now solving more serious violent crimes than before. We see that more leading criminals are arrested, convicted, and imprisoned. But no one should be satisfied. Organized crime remains. Acts of violence, extortion, threats, and digital recruitment are still occurring. And children are used as consumables by adult men who do not dare to commit the crimes themselves.

That is why this law was needed. It does not solve everything; no single reform does. But it strikes at a concrete part of the methods of criminality. We make it harder to advertise serious crimes. We make it harder to quickly find young perpetrators. We make it harder for the platforms to let the content remain when the police have identified it.

This is important legislation, and I am very proud that we are getting it in place today after a record-fast process.

With this, I vote in favor of the committee's proposal in the report.

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Ulrika Liljeberg (C)

Madam Speaker! I want to begin by saying that the Centre Party supports the proposal in this committee report and this bill. We take a position based on our compass that crime policy should be powerful, smart, and knowledge-based, and that it should solve real societal problems and not just produce leaflets.

This proposal does exactly that. It addresses an actual and documented problem, namely that criminal networks advertise crimes digitally and recruit children via social media and gaming platforms. It is not a made-up problem. It is everyday life today for far too many families in Sweden.

Centerpartiet therefore moves for approval of the committee's proposal in the report.

With the new law on the removal of recruitment content online, a legal instrument is being created that has been missing until now. A competent authority shall be able to order a hosting service provider to remove recruitment content. And it shall occur quickly, within one hour at the latest. Sanction fees can affect platforms that do not comply with the decisions.

This model is proven within the counter-terrorism legislation, and there are good reasons to apply it also against the gangs' recruitment advertisements.

This is not a proposal without flaws, but we see it as a necessary tool in the crime-fighting toolbox.

I want to briefly place this decision in a larger context.

I want to highlight some of the Center Party's proposals, which we also believe are needed to solve this problem.

Firstly, we want to double the penalty for recruitment of minors into crime. We have already decided that the penalty will be raised from four to six years. We had proposed a doubling, to eight years, to mark where the fundamental responsibility lies in the recruitment – on the adults and not on the 13-year-olds.

Secondly, we want to introduce a children's emergency number. One must be careful about introducing new emergency numbers, but seven out of ten parents do not know where to turn if they are worried that their or others' children will come into contact with the gangs. This needs to be taken seriously. Sweden needs an emergency number where both young and adults can call with their suspicions and then be routed correctly. It is needed if we mean business about crushing the gangs.

Thirdly, a child coordinator is needed for every child in the risk zone – a person responsible for holding the interventions together. We have seen examples of young people who, in just a few weeks, have gone from standing completely outside the criminal environment to committing serious crimes. At the same time, we know that a large majority of the children who commit crimes are already known to the social services. The coordination of the interventions needs to become better. We believe that having a responsible person per child in the risk zone is one of the pieces of the puzzle. It is not always a lack of resources, but rather a lack of coordination and precision.

Finally, we want to see a national screening program for violence against children because the connection is all too strong between children who have experienced or been subjected to violence during their upbringing and those who subsequently commit crimes. One needs to become better at recognizing this and acting so that the trajectory of crime is broken for these children. Their trajectory from victim to perpetrator needs to be stopped. Just as everyone's vision and hearing is checked, one needs to screen their vulnerability. This is done in some places, but it needs to be done for all children in all of Sweden.

In conclusion, I would like to wish the Speaker, the members, and the staff a pleasant Midsummer and then a fine summer.

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Martin Melin (L)

Madam Speaker! I will not drag out this debate. I just want to state that it does not matter whether it concerns organized crime, gang criminals, hooligans, thugs, bandits or terrorists – call them what you will – they must be fought just as hard online as in the real world. When and if they market their activities on social media or seek people through them – not infrequently young people who are to take on assignments of various kinds, for example explosions and shootings – these channels must also be stopped. I am pleased that the government is now moving quickly with a proposal on how this should be done. I and the Liberals move for the approval of the bill.

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The deliberation was hereby concluded.

(Decisions were made under § 18.)

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