Asylum Seeker Groped Sleeping Swedish Girl - Deported, but Can Return in 10 Years

SWEDEN - A Moroccan asylum seeker who had been in Sweden for less than a month broke into several family homes in one night, stealing valuables worth at least 50,000 kronor.

In one house, he crept into the bedroom of the family's young daughter and touched her while she slept.

He has now been sentenced to prison and deportation. But he is allowed to come back to Sweden in ten years.

Rida Bouzayne, 29, arrived in Sweden in July 2026 as an asylum seeker from Morocco.

He was charged with two counts of burglary, three counts of theft, two counts of attempted burglary, two counts of unlawful handling of payment cards, one count of molestation and one count of unlawful interference with property.

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On the night of August 25 to 26, he began by climbing into an unlocked car in Svedala, in southern Sweden, and taking a laptop, headphones and a backpack.

Just over 200 metres away, he got into another car parked in the driveway of a house. Inside, he found a key that fit the front door. He walked in and came out with shampoo, shorts, shoes, deodorant and motorcycle keys - all caught on the homeowner's security camera.

Girl woke up to a stranger

A little later, Bouzayne turned up at another home about a kilometre away. The family's daughter, a Swedish girl of around ten, woke up in sheer panic.

"I think I was lying on my side and I felt someone sort of half-tickling me on the stomach. And I thought it was dad," she told police. "I didn't know what to do when I saw it wasn't him."

She started kicking to get the stranger off her. He ran, and she chased after him screaming until he fled through the door.

Before entering her room, he had taken 600 kronor in cash, two of the mother's bank cards and a set of keys.

He then moved on to two more houses. At the first, the couple who live there stopped him. At the second, a woman confronted him as he stood in her kitchen.

When police arrested him a few blocks away, he was wearing a jacket bearing the logos of the Swedish Armed Forces and its amphibious regiment.

Deported - but welcome back

On November 3, Ystad District Court delivered its verdict. Bouzayne had admitted most of the charges but denied touching the girl.

The court found every charge proven and said it was an aggravating circumstance that the break-ins happened at night, when he knew people were inside.

Even so, he was sentenced to just one year and ten months in prison. Swedish courts apply a volume discount when someone is convicted of many crimes at once, so each additional offence adds less and less to the sentence.

The prosecutor demanded deportation with a lifetime ban on returning. The court agreed he had no ties to Sweden and should be deported - but limited the re-entry ban to ten years, citing the penalty value of the crimes.

In other words, he is free to return to Sweden ten years after leaving.

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