23-year-old Ajman Shanab from Vimmerby, who is charged with terrorist offenses, worked in home care services in Vimmerby. This is now being revealed by Samnytt.

On Thursday, prosecutor Carl Mellberg at the National Unit for Security Cases at the National Prosecution Authority brought charges against 23-year-old Ajman Shanab.

Shanab is accused of joining the Islamic State, helping to finance the terrorist sect, and attempting to travel to Somalia, where one branch of the group is located.

Worked in home care services

In April 2023, Ajman Shanab, originally from Syria, traveled to Mecca together with his 23-year-old jihadist and childhood friend Zaker Mohsini, who is from Afghanistan. It was then that the radicalization process of the two young Muslims began.

Earlier this year, Mohsini was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for serious participation in a terrorist organization, serious financing of terrorism, and traveling for terrorism. Now, Shanab is also being charged with the same type of criminal activity.

But the year before Shanab became a jihadist, he worked in home care services in Vimmerby. This is now being revealed by Samnytt.

The 23-year-old worked as a care assistant in the southern home care area from April 25 that year until September 30, according to information from the municipality’s human resources department.

Refuses to answer questions

Fredrik Renvaktar is the unit manager at the social services department in Vimmerby. When Samnytt calls him to ask if he is aware of or remembers Ajman Shanab working there, he says:

“Very possible.”

However, he refuses to answer Samnytt’s questions and refers to his boss, Hanna Revelj Westrin.

“All such media contact is handled by the operations manager. It is not me who manages it, so you will have to contact her,” he says.

But even the operations manager does not want to answer questions about the home care jihadist.

“Vimmerby municipality has no comments to provide,” Hanna Revelj Westrin writes in an email.

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