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Police were alerted on Wednesday to an alleged abuse of women in Södermalm, writes the local newspaper Mitt i Stockholm. Neighbors had heard screams and disturbances from an apartment, but when the patrol arrived at the scene, neither the assailant nor the victim was found.
Something later happened a trucker and saw a man hitting a woman. Then he decided to intervene and got out of his truck. He hit the man, who happened to be the woman’s partner, and then went on his way.
When police arrived at the scene, the woman showed where the man had gone and was arrested at their shared apartment.
The man was taken to hospital for treatment. Police tell Mitt that he was “a little bruised, but not seriously injured.” He is now suspected of assault and aggravated assault on a woman.
The trucker is not wanted by the police and is not suspected of a crime. This is because there is an opportunity to take over someone else’s right to emergency protection, Helena Boström Thomas tells DN.
Emergency protection for the benefit of others means that others can act as emergency protection for you if you are unable to do it yourself and that was according to the police assessment of what the truck driver did.
– If the arrested man has abused a woman, then it is self-defense, says Helena Boström Thomas.
