During a drug raid on Södermalm in Stockholm in 2020, a mobile phone was seized.
In it, the police found filmed abuse of apparently sleeping or unconscious women.
The cliff was decisive in the investigation against the so-called Nytorgsmannen.
Steph is one of the plaintiffs that the police managed to identify through the videos.
She met Nytorgsmannen at the pub about a year before the crackdown and accompanied him home with another friend.
There, both she and her friend fell asleep completely unexpectedly and woke up several hours later in a panic.
Steph and her friend took the bus from there and then she didn't hear from the man again.
Over a year later, she was called by a police investigator and asked to come in for witness interviews.
During the interrogation, the police showed still images of her personal details in the videos, for identification purposes.
Only then did Steph understand what she had been exposed to.
Investigator: “Who are these women?”
Usually the police are looking for the criminal suspect and not the plaintiff.
But in this case it was the other way around;
investigators attempted to make contact with the plaintiffs seen in the video clips.
- Every single time we have identified a plaintiff, we have done it in a new way or a little differently, but we have almost always started from his phone, says civil criminal investigator Rima Almadeh.
Here she tells how many plaintiffs reacted when they understood what they had been exposed to in the police interrogation room:
Watch the first episode of Document from the inside: Nytorgsmannen on SVT Play or on SVT1 Tuesday 18 October at 21:00.