Sweden -- Attempted Rape Is a Passport to Staying in the Country

     All the way back in 2013, a Swedish woman was near a museum in the city of Uddevalla when she was attacked.

     Two men were standing over her. One of the men pulled down her tights to rape her. Just as the attacker was about to pull down her underwear, a Norwegian man over heard her screaming "NO NO NO".  The Norwegian man went to investigate and found her being attacked. As he approached, the attackers left her alone and ran away.

     Police got DNA samples of the attackers, but never managed to catch them - Until now 10 years later.  A 27 year old man from Afghanistan was stopped in a traffic stop when the police realized his DNA matched the person who had tried to rape the woman.

     The prosecutor charged the man on the 21st of June this year, however the man had then left the country. The police began an intensive chase to find the man and bring him back to Sweden. And they were successful!

     An international arrest warrant was sent out and he was brought back to stand trial in Sweden.

This Monday the 27 year old man was sentenced for attempted rape with a punishment of 140 hours of community service.  

     The court in Uddevalla says that the reason for such a lenient sentence is because the man claimed to only have been 17 years old at the time of the crime, and that it happened 10 years ago.

The man is from Afghanistan and does not have Swedish citizenship. He also has no job.

     Guess what? The court also decided that he will be allowed to stay in Sweden. The prosecutor wanted him deported, but the court denied that request. He will be allowed to stay in Sweden and is a free man after having completed 140 hours of community service.

     The court says that he arrived in Sweden as a lone child refugee, which is why he is allowed to stay. "The crime is according to the court's opinion not such that there is now reason to deport [the man]" the court ruling said.  To make things even worse, the woman who was attacked had been raped by another man just a few years earlier. In that case, the rapist had been deported.

     So here we have a person who arrived in Sweden as a "lone child refugee". He attempted to rape a woman, and when he finally was caught by the police, the court let him off with just a few hours of community service. He didn't even get any prison time!     And he is allowed to stay in Sweden forever.