A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced for his role in a grenade explosion in central Enköping. The explosion occurred on September 28 outside a car dealership, where a hand grenade detonated, damaging the building's facade and windows as well as two parked cars. Several people were in the area and witnessed a loud bang, but no one was injured.
The teenager admitted to retrieving a hand grenade from a forest in Kungsängen and taking a taxi to Enköping, claiming he handed it over to another person who carried out the detonation. The prosecutor sought a charge of aggravated public destruction, but the district court found it not proven that the boy himself detonated the charge. The court assessed that he intentionally facilitated the crime by retrieving and delivering the grenade, but the crime was not considered aggravated as the explosion happened in the evening at a closed premises with few people around.
The teen admits to crimes against the law on flammable and explosive goods and aiding public destruction, but denies aggravated public destruction. The crime corresponds to three years in prison, but because he was under 18 at the time of the crime, the sentence was reduced and he was sentenced to ten months of youth supervision.