Published 24 April 2024 at 15.17
Domestic. Football player and student assistant Edriss Hushmand, 24, has been sentenced to four years in prison for raping two 14-year-old girls at a recycling station in Skåne. Despite the sentence, the Afghan is now wanted – he was able to escape because he was not in custody.
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Edriss Hushmand is part of the Afghanistan national football team and has Sweden, among other things, played for Ariana FC.
He has been praised on several occasions in the media and highlighted as an example of integration. Among other things in 2017 when he together with some comrades started the project #framåtmalmö.
– Sweden did us a favor. Now we want to give something back and show that there are immigrants who want to build bridges, one of the others involved in the project told Sydsvenskan at the time.
Recently Edriss Hushmand has been working as a student assistant at one of Malmö's schools and sold e-cigarettes, “vejp”, on the side.
It was on Walpurgis night last year that two 14-year-old girls got in touch with Edriss Hushmand via Snapchat to buy e-cigarettes from him.
Started vomiting – he still continued
When he arrived at their address in Svedala municipality, he drove them to a recycling station. The integration example then began to prey on the girls, who said no, already in the car, and then continued when they arrived. Even when one of the girls started throwing up, he didn't stop. Before leaving the scene, he told the girls not to tell anyone about what happened.
One of the girls' mother managed to identify the Afghan by setting a trap. She arranged to meet him at McDonalds to buy e-cigarettes and when they met, the daughter was hidden in the car and was able to identify him. the rape.
After he was arrested, the district court chose to set him free – despite the high penalty value.
On the loose and wanted
On April 17, the Ystad district court sentenced Edriss Hushmand, against his denial, to four years in prison for rape of the normal degree. He has received Swedish citizenship and therefore cannot be deported under current legislation.
The fact that the Afghan was not convicted of child rape is due to the district court buying his statement that he thought the girls were 17 years old.
p>It was only in connection with the verdict that it was decided that Edriss Hushmand would be detained, with reference to the fact that there was a risk that he would leave the country.
But then it was too late – and the Afghan is now wanted. Despite that, he has appealed the arrest decision through his lawyer.
“It can be like this”
– It can be like this when there are high penalty values, then you risk to end up in such situations, says prosecutor Love Lundin to Sydsvenskan.
As recently as Wednesday, the district court decided to grant Edriss Hushmand's request to change lawyers, according to documents from the district court.