Published 6 February 2023 at 19.36
Domestic. Two Iraqi citizens in their 30s have been detained for kidnapping and aggravated rape. They are suspected of having kidnapped and grossly raped high school girls in Falkenberg, writes Morgonposten.
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According to the prosecutor, the three girls were held captive in an apartment between Thursday and Friday last week. According to information to Aftonbladet, they must have been drugged.
One of the teenage girls managed to escape and alert the police, which led to a large police operation where the victims could be exonerated.
The girls must have been 15 and 16 years old, according to P4 Halland. The apartment is located on Strandvägen in Falkenberg, near Tullbroskolan, which is a junior high school.
The two detainees need an interpreter in Kurdish. One man's detention hearing was delayed when the interpreter did not dare to give his name so that the suspect could hear it. He would have interpreted in the northern Kurdish dialect of Badinani, according to Morgonposten.
Both men have previously been convicted of, among other things, minor drug offenses and one has also been sentenced to eight years in prison for assault. Despite this, he was allowed to stay in Sweden.
The men and the victims have been interviewed by the police, but the public prosecutor Klas Lundgren is cautious about releasing more information due to the secrecy of the preliminary investigation.
It is still unclear if there are more people involved in the crime.