Migrant Gang Beats and Robs Old Women in Sweden

This article is from Samhallsnytt and was translated from Swedish by Google

I've cleaned it up a little

Haiderat Salim in the far right. Photo: Police

Above is the immigrant crowd that battered and robbed 97-year-old Elsa.

The brains in the gang, which consisted mainly of so-called "street kids" originating in North Africa, specializing in older women, was a well-established man from Iraq. The man came to Sweden ten years ago, had an apartment and a job. "He is a very kind person," his father told him.

On the night of August 31, 2017, 97-year-old Elsa woke up that several men were in her bedroom on Marieholmsvägen in Malmö. Elsa, who lives alone in the house, first thought it was the home service that came to visit to replace her injured finger. And, in part, she was right - when 28-year-old Haiderat Salim previously worked as a home assistant in Elsa's area. This time, however, he came in the company of three asylum seekers of North Africans to rob her.

"You must not scream because I'll cut it!"

One of the perpetrators threatened her with a screwdriver that he held against Elsa's throat. In connection with this he said, "You must not scream because I'll cut it!", According to the police's preliminary investigation. The gang was looking for money. They threw Elsa on the floor to search through her mattress.

However, there was no money. Maybe that was why she was beaten by disappointed perpetrators.

"I have osteoarthritis in my spine so it hurt very much," Elsa later told the police. Pictures from the preliminary investigation show big bruises on Elsa's body.

The gang worked calmly and methodically during the time they were in the woman's house. They went through all the cabinets, carried out her old TV, and took wedding rings - a memory she had left behind her passing husband. Early in the morning they left the house. It took an hour for a passerby to hear Elsa's call for help and summoned the police. Here's how her house looked after the visit:

The crime was remarkable even for Malmö, which was the victim of crime, so the police put a lot of resources on getting the perpetrators.

A special dog trained to search for DNA traces searched through Elsa's garden. There were several DNA traces, because the perpetrators smoked in the house and left fimps on the spot, but none of them matched Swedish criminals in the police database. In other words, there were weak prospects to cope with the crime.

According to the police documents, Haiderat Salim's car was under guard by the police's team of forces two days after the robbery made the following observation:

"TTC783 enters Lektorsgatan and into the parking lot at number 6. Two men and at least three women and at least two children are around the car. Some of these rotate among things in the car."

Later it will turn out that the car was used at the robbery and for the transport of support goods.

Eventually, several other perpetrators joined the group who appear to be known by the team of names. Their behavior seems so suspicious to the police that they summon the intervention force that controls the car's passengers. For some reason, however, the car is not searched.

"There are four Arabs in the car"

Early in the morning of September 4, the police get a warning that some men shattered a box on a house on Regementsgatan - where another elderly woman lives. The men were scared away by a careful neighbor who called the police.

The gang was arrested thanks to a police who reported the event as follows:

"I see that a car crosses the street just in front of us. I notice that there are four Arabs in the car and find it strange that they drive around in the middle of the night in this area. We pull it over at the parking lot at Rönneholmsparken. "

The policeman speaks with the driver who is "significantly nervous". The patrol visits the gang and finds the drug Tramadol as well as hash. A short while later, Elsa's ICA card is found in the car, which makes it possible to connect the company to the previous robbery.

"The car also found various tools commonly used for crashes of this character along with goods that should typically not be in a car with young foreign men," the policeman wrote in his reporting PM.

It turned out that the three other men involved in the robbery were 20-year-old Mohammad Al Agawi, 18-year-old Alladin Al Arabi and Mansour Alzafiri with unclear age. All three were asylum seekers in Sweden with background in Morocco or other countries in North Africa. El Arabi and Alzafiri have already received expulsion decisions in their cases from the Migration Board and were thus in Sweden without permission.

"Haiderat is very kind and helps others"

The brains in the gang was, however, 28-year-old Haiderat Raad Salim - a Swedish citizen originating in Iraq and the only one who spoke fluent Swedish. 

The debate on immigrant crime often indicates that it is due to socio-economic factors - including so-called exclusion. However, when looking at Haiderat Salim, he does not seem to have been in any exclusion. He lived with his wife in a separate apartment at a good address in Malmö - far from the badly notorious Rosengård. He had a job as a home assistant - that's how he found out where the oldest and most helpless women lived.

Here lived Haiderat Salim. Photo: Google Maps

According to documents from the Swedish Migration Board, which Social News has learned, Haiderat came to Sweden 10 years ago in connection with his father. The rest of the family followed.

When social news calls Haiderat Salim's father it turns out that his Swedish is not good enough to understand questions and answer them - despite the 17 years he spent in Sweden. A moment later, he will call back using a friend who translates from Arabic.

The father confirms that he received asylum in Sweden and that the rest of the family was associated with him.

What do you have for comment on the judgment against Haiderat?

- Haiderat is very kind and helps others all the time. Should you stop him on the street in Malmö and ask for an address, he would make sure you find it right! He never did such things.

Do you mean the sentence is wrong?

- I do not know. I'm just saying that he is very kind as a person and I can not imagine he had committed what he was accused of.

In December 2017, Malmö District Court judged Haiderat Salim for 5 years and 6 months in prison. The rest of the gang was sentenced to shorter prison sentences by reference to their age. Mansour Alzafiri was sentenced to end youth care for 1 year and 10 months as the district court chose to believe that he was under 18 at the time of the crime. This despite the fact that Alzafiri left conflicting information about its age during the asylum process.

The whole age thing is a big joke in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe. Men in their late 20s claim to be teenagers to get better treatment and lighter sentences when they are caught breaking the law. Age can be determined by the courts if they had the will to, but they seem to rather let the criminals off with much lighter sentences and allow them back on the streets of Sweden to harass old women and rape young girls.