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For the past two decades, Mahmoud Beirani has lived as a prisoner in Sweden, outside of society, of which Assignment review, UG, recounts in Wednesday’s episode.
Without the opportunity to accept paid work, he has been referred to undeclared work and income support from the municipalities.
“I have not killed but I have only destroyed for myself”
– I have not murdered but I have only destroyed for myself. 27 years have passed and it is as if I am still standing in the same place, says Mahmoud Beirani in UG.
He was granted a permanent residence permit in October 1987 in Sweden after coming here as an Iranian refugee. He said he had brothers here and he didn’t like the Iranian regime.
In Sweden, Mahmoud Beirani studied at SFI and trained as a welder. However, he started having fun and trying drugs, and became addicted to smoking heroin, which he began to deal with himself.
In 1994, he and 10 others were convicted of major drug trafficking and the sentence was seven and a half years in prison and life in prison.
Reception in Iran: “Throw me back on the plane”
In October 1998, Mahmoud Beirani had served his prison sentence and was picked up by the transport service of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service for deportation to Iran.
– I wanted to go home and live the rest of my life there, he tells UG.
When the plane landed in Tehran on October 19, he was released, while the prison guards remained on the plane waiting.
However, the refusal was not synchronized with the Foreign Ministry and Mahmoud Beirani was abruptly greeted by security personnel when they discovered that he lacked identity documents.
– They grabbed me by the neck and threw me back into the plane.
Mahmoud Beirani, still sentenced to life imprisonment, was returned to Sweden. After receiving him in his home country, he no longer wanted to return and stopped cooperating with the police to be deported.
He stood with an ax and absolute dominance in central Stockholm
During the 22 years that have passed since then, Mahmoud Beirani’s mental state has deteriorated.
He has been receiving maintenance support from the municipality for ten years, but is not allowed to take paid work. He lives in Sweden but is listed as an emigrant in the population register.
In September 2006, he stood at Norrbro in central Stockholm with an ax in one hand and a snare around his neck, after receiving his latest rejection of his clemency request.
He shot cars with a slingshot and was taken to the forensic psychiatry in Säter.
The Iranian embassy has long claimed that their identity cannot be established, despite the fact that they were sent fingerprints, detailed personal data and their mother’s identity documents. In UG, the embassy claims that the identity has been confirmed but that Iran accepts Mahmoud Beirani because he himself does not want to be deported.
Police believe Mahmoud should obtain a residence permit
Tore Persson, the former head of the Norrköping police alien rotel, believes that the expulsion decision against Mahmoud Beirani should be reversed, as he has not committed any further crimes since his release from prison. He is also supported by Torbjörn Ahlund, former pastor of Vadstena, and his partner and best friend Karolina.
But clemency requests have been rejected time and again, by government after government.
– If we were to go down that road and say that “it does not matter that you were sentenced to deportation, you have managed to stay five or ten years, then you must stay.” Then it will be very, very difficult for us to carry out any deportation, says Justice Minister Morgan Johansson (S) in UG.
How long will he live like this? What is your message for Beirani? UG asks.
– Yes, you should go home. And it’s a decision he can make himself and should have made a long time ago, says Morgan Johansson.
The assignment review airs on SVT Play and SVT on Wednesday, October 21 at 8:00 p.m.
