A man around 40 years old, believed to be from Afghanistan, was arrested for allegedly first raping a woman in Norberg and then pushing her down a mine shaft.
The man, who reportedly came to Sweden at the time of the refugee crisis in 2015, was denied a residence permit but remained in the country anyway.
It was Friday afternoon when a family man passing by with his children heard a woman calling for help from a mine hole in Långgruvan, west of Avesta in Norberg municipality. It turned out that the woman had been raped, pushed into the pit and left there to die.
(…) The man calls himself Mohamad Amini and is 41 years old, according to his birth certificate. However, his identity has not been confirmed and the Swedish authorities have not been able to establish his nationality, but all indications are that he is from Afghanistan.
According to Aftonbladet, the woman found in the mine hole between Avesta and Norberg was a woman who Mohamad Amini asked to marry. However, the woman rejected the man’s marriage proposal, whereupon he took revenge on her by raping her and pushing her into the pit.
“She was lucky. There was snow at the bottom of the pit for her to land on and cushion her fall. But that’s a big height. Normally it doesn’t end well if you fall 20 metres,” Lars Johansson, head of Avesta’s rescue service, told the newspaper Aftonbladet.
The woman was rescued from the mine shaft by helicopter. It is not yet known how long the woman was trapped in the pit before she was rescued.
Mohamad Amini has a criminal record. He has been convicted twice for drunk driving and once for minor drug offences. On both occasions, the penalty was a fine. Samnytt.se