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February 23, 2012
Naked man in 'pot-fuelled' train sex attack
Published: 23 Nov 11 14:33 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/37524/20111123/
A 30-year-old man from western Sweden has been detained after he stripped down naked and started asking people to have sex with him before attacking a female passenger and a conductor on a train traveling in central Sweden.
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According to police, the man smoked marijuana somewhere between Herrljunga and Skövde, after which he began behaving erratically.
“He got high during the trip, he threatened and assaulted a conductor and he assaulted a woman,” police spokesperson Lars Johansson told the paper.
After the initial assault, the man then took off all his clothes and began roaming through the train asking people if they wanted to have sex with him.
“He asked if we wanted to have sex, but I politely declined,” one passenger told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
Eventually, the man tried to force a woman to perform oral sex on him.
According to Johansson, the man also threatened to kill everyone who left the train.
When the train stopped in Skövde, most of the passengers nevertheless evacuated. When police arrived they found the 30-year-old alone on the train talking to a woman he had trapped in the corner.
When police attempted to apprehend the men, he resisted, forcing them to use pepper spray.
On Tuesday, he was ordered held on remand by the Skaraborg District Court on suspicion of assault, attempted rape, and threatening behaviour.
The 30-year-old has submitted a blood test to confirm whether or not he was under the influence of drugs at the time of the incident.
“But it's quite likely he was under the influence of something. This sort of behaviour isn't normal,” a prosecutor told local news website Skövdenyheter.se.
Police have interviewed several witnesses in the case and prosecutors are expected to file charges no later than December 6th, according to GP.
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You never see headlines saying, man rapes due to drinking Pripps or Heineken etc
There is no way this man would have been capable of any crime, its all because of the pot.
It would seem that he has a mental disorder as it is, but probably triggered by psychosis brought on by smoking.
"He asked if we wanted to have sex, but I politely declined," Hey at least he asked. That's not attempted rape or threatening behavior. Just asking. Still being naked is a bit distracting and what about indecent exposure, isn't that a crime? And I bet he had a hard on.
Hehehe....
and then I got high,
I was feeling kinda strange
And then I got high.
So I asked the girl in front
but she declined.....
Because I got high
because I got high
Because I got high
Why do you assume that?
Naked man in "alcohol fuelled" train sex attack.
The headline should of been something like this.
"Crazy messed up naked man in train sex attack"
Check for yourself.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article13973505.ab
He also screamed that he was a "somalie warrior" during the attacks. He has been doing these kind of crimes since he was 15 back in 1996.
Such simplistic reasoning may be suited to schoolchildren, but this is not necessarily the audience of the Local, nor of the major newspapers in Sweden. Correlation is not equivalent to causation... this, to put it simply, means that just because certain variables are correlated to an activity DOES NOT MEAN that they CAUSE that activity. Furthermore there is ample research suggesting that for the very small minority who have adverse and psychotic experiences correlated with marijuana, these likely have predispositions to psychosis in the first place!
On the other hand, the Swedish state is happy to sell alcohol, a known poison, which is highly correlated with fatalities to its population.
The article said he "took off all his clothes and began roaming through the train asking people if they wanted to have sex with him," but doesn't mention if he was aroused or flaccid. You'd think people would have commented on that.
I love how one person "politely declined."
I agree with several comments here: the man didn't act this way because of smoking pot, there is obviously something wrong with him. What the pot probably did is help him drop his inhibitions. Alcohol has the same effect. The question is: if this particular person has been exhibiting psychotic behaviour since he was 15, why was he allowed to be free to endanger the general population?
I know because I`ve looked at the man`s, Billy Bile Bilisio previously Bile Ali Abtidoon, criminal record.
@ Danne8
So you feel that it`s right that a policeman tells the media that the man shouted "I`m a somalie warrior" but then the media censurs it to "I`m a warrior"? By not telling the entire story, etnicity or whatever, you give the readers a skewed view of the world. People has to right to know everything, information should be free. It`s then up to the readers to focus on what`s important in the case. The media shouldn`t have the power to tell the people what`s important and what should be known or not. A perpetrators age, education, etnicity, sex and income are all equally important.
I agree with you on this last point, playing ostrich and pretending the world doesn't exist as it does is incredibly naive. When Mommy State decides reality doesn't fit with its own desired perception of the world -- and censures public information accordingly -- that's when we start getting into real trouble. I, for one, am not a child, and I don't particularly like being treated as such by anyone -- much less by my own government. Report the news accurately and let me make up my own mind. Each incident of such hand-holding -- attempting to hide an uncomfortable truth -- serves not to protect me but to make me mistrust our news media more.
Exactly my point. I don`t care if he was somalie or black. But I do care when I`m not getting the entire story or the truth. And you have a point, it`s like being treated like a child. It`s like the media thinks I`m not in a position to handle the information given to me. That I´m not mature or intelligent enough.
What I care about is if the man said he was a "somalie warrior", then I want to read it and not some censured version of what he said. Same goes if it would be someone who shouted "swedish warrior" or "japanese warrior". As it is now the media is adding to the sensitivity of some words by removing them.
When not meantioning if someone is Cuban, for example, when they are people will start to suspect that the fault lies with someone because they are Cuban. Because that`s what the media is holding out. And then you have a real problem. In an open and tolerant society the information needs to be free.