An 81-year-old Swedish woman awoke to find two masked men by her bed, who taped her mouth and ransacked her home for jewelry and valuables. Now, two 16-year-old Syrians are being prosecuted for the brutal nighttime robbery and several other serious crimes—but despite being suspected of these offenses, they cannot be deported. Both have already become Swedish citizens.

It was during the night of January 8 this year that the 81-year-old woman woke up to find two masked men standing by her bed—one at the head and one at the foot.

The men were dressed in black, with hoods and scarves pulled up over their faces so that only their eyes were visible. They spoke Swedish with an accent. The more active of the two placed tape over her mouth.

She indicated the cabinet in the hallway where her jewelry was. One of the men pulled out the drawer, grabbed its contents—among other things, silver earrings from Georg Jensen and gold jewelry—and put them in a grocery bag.

They asked for car keys, tore down the key box, and took her iPhone with her driver’s license and bank card. Attempts to pull a ring from her finger failed.

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“I rather felt sorry for them”

The incident was over in about five minutes. The woman said that she was mostly angry—not afraid.

— I really didn’t feel my life was threatened (…) They seemed like confused youths, I felt more sorry for them than afraid, she said in her interview.

Earlier in the afternoon, she had dropped or forgotten her house keys by the garage.

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The Syrian youths

The two teenagers who broke into the 81-year-old woman’s home are suspected to be Milad Alboulad, 16, and Asad Eldin Tamim, 16.

Alboulad immigrated to Sweden from Syria in 2017 and was granted Swedish citizenship in 2019. Tamim immigrated from Syria in 2016 and was granted Swedish citizenship in 2018.

Since they now hold Swedish citizenship, they cannot be deported from Sweden under current law.

Both deny the aggravated robbery of the pensioner woman.

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Assaulted Swedish Homeless Pensioner

In addition to the aggravated robbery and home invasion of the 81-year-old woman, they are charged with further crimes. Among other things, Alboulad is alleged, sometime between October 2025 and March 2026, to have approached a homeless man sleeping in a stationhouse on the Landskrona train station platform.

There he allegedly punched the retiree in the face after asking if he was homeless. The assault was filmed by a friend of Alboulad’s.

Tamim is charged with, among other things, aggravated extortion, attempted aggravated extortion, aggravated home invasion, kidnapping, robbery, and theft.

Both are also suspected of a robbery of a grocery store in Landskrona, two days after the robbery of the 81-year-old woman.

Alboulad has previously received two official warnings in 2025, one for minor weapons offenses and two counts of minor drug offenses, and the second for a minor drug offense.

Tamim has been previously convicted of unauthorized driving and attempted theft; he has also received a warning for a minor drug offense as well as prosecutorial waiver for a minor drug offense.

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