Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer speaks with the media at a meeting of EU interior ministers at the European Council in Brussels, Belgium, on March 9, 2023. Virginia Mayo/AP Reuters —

The Swedish government on Friday proposed changes to the constitution that would allow revoking the citizenship of some criminal gang leaders , as part of its work to combat widespread organized crime.

In January, a cross-party parliamentary committee proposed constitutional changes to allow stripping the passports of people with dual nationality convicted of espionage or treason, but stopped short of suggestions targeting organized crime.

“The government has chosen to go further than the committee’s proposal precisely to make it possible to also revoke citizenship from, for example, gan

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