A 10-year-old Dutch girl has been left seriously injured after she was stabbed by a man while walking with her grandparents in the Swedish city of Gothenburg yesterday.
The incident occurred in broad daylight when the girl was walking through the Brunnsparken town square at around 12:30 PM. The man stabbed the girl in the stomach while the grandmother tried to shield the child with her arm.
The grandmother also suffered an injury to her arm when she tried to protect her granddaughter from the attacker.
The grandmother’s efforts thankfully paid off. While the girl was seriously injured in the attack, she is now in a stable condition, and out of the danger zone, a spokesperson told RTL Nieuws.
Known to police
It is reported that the attacker was known to Gothenburg police. It’s believed that the 35-year-old man probably attacked the girl at random while in a “state of confusion,” a spokesperson tells RTL Nieuws.
The girl from Amsterdam was visiting her Swedish grandparents when the attack took place.
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And now the authorities will investigate why the man did what he did and the media will report the findings and not leave it open to interpretate as you want… Right?
Chamber prosecutor Moa Widjer has requested that Milad Salari be detained on probable cause on suspicion of two cases of attempted murder in Gothenburg on March 2.
The victims are a 9-year-old girl and her grandmother. They were visiting Brunnsparken in central Gothenburg when the 36-year-old attacked them.
Milad Salari has previously been convicted of a very large number of crimes in Sweden, including robbery and assault, but has time and again gotten away with lenient sentences.
As recently as November, he was convicted of stealing a computer and a keyboard from a store right next to the scene of Thursday’s stabbing. The prosecutor wanted him to be sentenced to prison, but instead he was given probation. The court considered that a “tangible improvement took place in his personal and social situation”.
The injured girl is a citizen of the Netherlands. According to the police, her condition is still serious but stable.
According to the police, there is no indication that more perpetrators were involved in the attack and there is currently no known connection between Milad Salari and the victims.
The pretrial hearing starts at 3 p.m. in the Gothenburg District Court. The district court has approved the correctional service’s request that Milad Salari be handcuffed during the detention hearing.
Dutch child stabbed in Sweden, by a guy with a non-European background. Cool story. #multiculturalism
He’s a dual-citizen of Iran; should be grounds for deportation.
Better functioning multi-ethnic societies – such as Singapore – will deport people for far less serious crimes, like graffitiing.