84-year-old Elsa in Uppsala was raped by a man from the home care service in April 2024. Now the Eritrean man who has been identified as the rapist is demanding over half a million kronor in damages after losing his job. This is clear from documents from the Uppsala District Court.

It was a morning in April 2024 when Elsa was raped by a man from the home care service.

– This was the hardest thing I have ever experienced, she said in an interview with Samnytt in November 2024.

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This is not the first time Elsa was exposed to the man. He has exposed himself to her several times, something she also pointed out to the home care service. Additionally, another woman receiving home care says she was also raped by the man.

Despite this, the man was allowed to keep his job and continued making home visits to Elsa.

Fired

Elsa identified the rapist. He is a man in his 50s who arrived in Sweden from Eritrea in the summer of 2009. He is married and has six children.

Since 2015, the Eritrean man has been a Swedish citizen.

– Dark skin. Not the darkest. Not from the darkest Africa and not the palest either. He is somewhere in between those skin tones. There are somewhat paler dark-skinned people. He is sort of in the middle, Elsa previously described him.

In May 2024, the identified man was first suspended from his job. And on July 3 of the same year, the municipality decided he would be dismissed from his position as a nursing assistant in home care.

At that time, two preliminary investigations for rape and sexual molestation were ongoing against him.

Claims Damages

But in September 2024, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Karin Koci decided to drop the two investigations against the Eritrean accused of rape.

”The preliminary investigation is closed. There is no longer reason to continue the investigation. Based on the current evidence, it is not possible to prove that the person(s) suspected are guilty of any crime. Further investigation is not expected to change the state of evidence in any decisive way,” she wrote in her two decisions.

And like clockwork, quite literally, a notice lands at the office of Uppsala municipal management. The Eritrean man has hired a lawyer to sue his former employer. He is demanding a large sum in damages for a dismissal he claims was unlawful.

The man accused of rape is demanding 190,000 kronor in general damages and 182,586 kronor in economic damages. Additionally, he wants 14,580 kronor per month from the municipality until he manages to find a new job.

All together, this adds up to over half a million kronor. On top of that, the accused Eritrean wants compensation for his legal costs.