Published 6 August 2021 at 15.12
Domestic. A 35-year-old immigrant from Eritrea escapes deportation after beating a shop assistant at the Press Office when he was not allowed to buy chocolate without paying.
& nbsp; – Are you a racist? asked Abdi when he did not get the goods for free, and then went on the attack.
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It was a Friday afternoon at the end of June that Abdi, 35, from Eritrea entered the Press Office at the central station in Borås.
Abdi went past the queue and threw a number of pieces of chocolate that he would have on the counter. The cashier asked the other customers if it was okay for him to help Abdi first. Abdi then said that he had no money to pay with.
When Abdi was not allowed to buy the chocolate pieces without paying, he asked the shop assistant if it was because he was black that he was not served.
– You do not answer, do you think I'm an idiot? Are you a racist? Abdi asked.
When the cashier did not answer, Abdi, who is actually called something else, left the store and stood and stared at the cashier through the window for a while.
Suddenly Abdi came into the store again and went to the checkout. The cashier asked him what the problem was. Abdi again accused the cashier of being racist and after a brief discussion, the angry Eritrean attacked.
Abdi started throwing all sorts of things he could get his hands on – including soda bottles and a glass box – at the cashier. Then he tore the shaft out of an umbrella so that it became like a sharp stick and penetrated behind the counter.
– I will kill you, Abdi said repeatedly.
Then interrupted Abdi attacked and walked out of the store. Police arrived shortly afterwards at the scene and arrested Abdi, who was still nearby.
The cashier received a number of minor wounds to the body after being hit by objects that Abdi threw.
During a police interrogation, Abdi claimed that it was in fact the cashier who had attacked him when he entered the Press Office to shop. He also maintained that he had been subjected to racism.
– I was kicked out of the store because of my skin color, Abdi explained to the police.
Abdi was arrested, after which charges were brought against him. at Borås District Court. He was then prosecuted not only for having beaten and threatened the cashier at the Press Office but also for several other crimes.
According to the indictment, in mid-April this year, Abdi had threatened a store employee at Ica Maxi in Angered. The store employee caught Abdi drinking from a bottle of hand alcohol that the staff used to spray his hands and asked what he was doing. Abdi then became aggressive, accused the store employee of being a racist and threatened to hit him with a floor rake that he got hold of.
After Abdi was arrested, the police asked him why he had threatened the store employee. Abdi responded with an explanation that could have been taken from a textbook in critical raste theory:
– Ask no more about why I threatened him. This white man is in his homeland, he need not be afraid. It's me who is black and lives in a white country, it's me who should be afraid. Ask no more why I threatened him, instead ask him why he went behind me and threatened me.
Abdi was also charged with stealing a bottle of rosé wine from a woman who had recently been shopping at one of Systembolaget's stores in Gothenburg. Here, too, there were racists on the move, if you can believe Abdi. When a man alerted the abducted woman that Abdi had sneaked a bottle of wine from her bag, Abdi accused him of being a racist. Abdi was arrested after a handshake by security guards called from a nearby 7-Eleven store.
The sentence was two months' imprisonment for assault, unlawful threats and theft.
The documents in the case show that Abdi came to Sweden in 2015 and that he has since been convicted of crimes on several previous occasions, including unlawful threats, shoplifting, vandalism and violations of the knife law. He is unemployed, homeless, abusing drugs and speaks such poor Swedish that he has been assisted by an interpreter at police interrogations. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service considers that there is a great risk that he will relapse into crime.
The prosecutor did not make a request for deportation. Even if the prosecutor does not request deportation, the district court has the opportunity to try on its own initiative whether deportation should take place. However, the district court has not done so.