Left MP's Ex-Partner Gave Ride to Somali Robber - Prosecutor Seeks Deportation

BORLÄNGE - Scandal-hit Left Party MP Mohamed Ali once pitched a digital ID project in Africa together with former Moderate politician Agneta Nyvall. Now court documents show Nyvall drove a Somali woman to a petrol station earlier this year - where the woman then tried to rob the shop.

The Somali woman now faces deportation from Sweden.

Mohamed Ali claimed to have grand plans for billion-kronor deals in his native Somalia together with Nyvall, a businesswoman. Nyvall later questioned whether Ali had even held the business meetings in Somalia that she had helped finance.

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Now Nyvall has turned up as a witness in an ongoing trial in which a Somali woman is charged with attempted robbery.

On 5 August this year, Nyvall drove 22-year-old Manaal Abdikadir Sabriye to the St1 petrol station in Borlänge.

When they arrived, Sabriye got out of the car, walked into the shop and stepped behind the counter. She grabbed cigarettes and vapes worth 366 kronor.

When the female shop assistant tried to take back the goods and push her out, a struggle broke out. It ended with Sabriye biting the woman on the arm in an attempt to get away with the items. She then left on foot.

No suspicion of any crime has been directed at Nyvall. Her role in the investigation has been that of a witness.

"I didn't dare be alone"

After the incident, the shop assistant was badly shaken and called her boyfriend to come over.

"Because I didn't dare be alone," she told police.

Once the adrenaline wore off, she felt a lump in her throat and anxiety. She was meant to work the next day but called in sick. Back at work the following Monday, she had chest pain and a racing pulse all day.

"I didn't know it would hit me this hard."

Nyvall: I drove her there

Police also questioned Nyvall to establish whether she had driven Sabriye to the scene.

She said the woman had come to her home that day and wanted to stay the night, but Nyvall suggested a hostel next to the petrol station instead.

"In August Manaal was at my place and I said she couldn't sleep here, and I suggested she could stay at Active Stay, which is by the St1 station. I drove her there one day in August. I assume that's the time you mean," she said. "I dropped her off at the petrol station car park."

"I haven't done anything"

When police asked Sabriye why she had gone to the shop, she replied: "I haven't done anything, I haven't done anything."

Throughout the interview she insisted she either could not remember or that it simply was not her, despite the CCTV footage.

"I have nothing to do with this. I'm at home. I haven't done anything. It's not me."

Faces deportation

Assistant prosecutor Alvin Svensson has now charged Sabriye with attempted robbery.

According to the charge, she resisted when the shop assistant tried to take back the cigarette packets, so the packets broke. When she then took two packs of vapes from a cabinet and the employee tried to stop her, she bit her on the arm.

The prosecutor argues the theft would have been completed had the employee not locked the entrance doors and recovered the goods.

Since Sabriye has never become a Swedish citizen since immigrating, the prosecutor is seeking her deportation with a ten-year re-entry ban. In other words, even if she is deported, she can come back once the ten years are up.