The man, who is in his 40s, has been in custody since Tuesday on suspicion of attempted murder and rape, when he is suspected of having raped and pushed a woman into a mining hole.

There is still no information about who the woman is.

- They know each other, that's the only thing I can say, says the man's defense lawyer Maria Wilhelmsson to SVT.

Neither the police, prosecutors, the man's defense lawyer nor the woman's plaintiff's assistant wanted to comment on the man's motives.

He denies the suspicions directed at him.

Came to Sweden in 2015

At the end of 2015, the now detained man with his then wife and three children will come to Sweden from Afghanistan.

They all apply for asylum but are rejected in all instances.

The deportations are never carried out and the family remains in the country.

In conversations with the Swedish Migration Agency 2018, the wife states that she is afraid of her husband and that she no longer wants to live with him.

In February 2019, she and two of the children applied for a restraining order, but the application was rejected on the grounds that the man had not previously been prosecuted for crimes against relatives.

Reported missing by the children

One year later, in February 2020, the children's mother disappears without a trace.

According to information to SVT, a police report about the woman's disappearance must have been made by the children themselves.

The police do several investigations but the woman is never found.

The man and the children live at this time in the residential area Bolagshagen in Norberg municipality.

In a police interrogation in 2021, when the man is investigated for illegal driving, he states that he does not know where the children's mother is.

He says in the same interrogation that she left him two years earlier, or that she had been "placed elsewhere".

SVT has met the man's neighbors in the residential area.

- I got to know him three years ago when I moved here, he had probably lived here for five years.

He was always kind and helpful, I can not believe he could do something like this.

Not him, says a resident and shakes his head.

Arrested in refugee accommodation

SVT has also visited the refugee accommodation in Halland where the man was arrested on Sunday.

There, the man is said to have told that he had problems with his ex-wife and that he and the children had moved away from her.

None of the neighbors should have seen the man with any other woman.

The residents describe the man as partly social, partly closed.

He was last seen last Saturday before the arrest and then behaved as usual.

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