The 26-year-old Syrian migrant Karam Kanjo has been convicted and issued a deportation order after being filmed pushing a 91-year-old Swedish woman down a flight of stairs and stealing her necklace — a necklace the widow received from her late husband.
Kanjo was 17 when he first arrived in Sweden from Syria in 2015, and since then, he has been a serial menace. He never finished school, began abusing drugs, and fell into a life of crime that saw him arrested for violent assault, theft, and sexual harassment. In his first five years, he was convicted for eight different cases. During his entire time in Sweden, he has been punished for 19 different crimes.
The first time he served prison time was in 2020 for assault, in which he ripped money right from a woman’s hand. Despite the crime, deportation was not even raised, according to Expressen.
Just the next year, he was convicted of raping a woman in a bush in Sollentuna and sentenced to 2.5 years in prison. However, the prosecutor in the case did not demand deportation, even though Kanjo only had a residence permit at the time.
Now, only after his arrest and conviction for assaulting and robbing a 91-year-old woman in a Sollentuna train station, is he finally issued a deportation order. The victim’s stolen necklace was reportedly given to her by her late husband 50 years ago.
When he assaulted the woman, he was still on parole for rape.
“According to the Probation Service’s investigation, he lives under destructive social conditions without his own accommodation and is unemployed. In light of the seriousness of the crime he is convicted of, the court judges that his connection to Sweden is not such that it prevents deportation,” wrote the district court.
Whether Sweden can actually manage to deport the man is another question. Given his Syrian background, getting him on a plane and sending him back will be difficult due to the failure of EU migration policy.
