{"id":608,"date":"2026-04-30T22:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=608"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:21:38","slug":"horror-in-norway-syrian-rapes-13-year-old-girl-gets-6-months-see-judges-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/horror-in-norway-syrian-rapes-13-year-old-girl-gets-6-months-see-judges-excuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror in Norway: Syrian rapes 13-year-old girl, gets 6 months\u2014See judges\u2019 excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

The incident occurred in the early hours of September 7, 2024, in Troms\u00f8.<\/strong> The minor had left her home and was heading toward the city center. Near the terminal station of the harbor, unfortunately for her, she encountered Abdelmonem Abdelrazak Al-Yousef<\/strong>, a Syrian who had arrived in Norway as a refugee in 2023,<\/strong> along with another man.<\/p>\n

Communication was limited, as the accused spoke only Arabic.<\/p>\n

According to the ruling of the Nord-Troms and Senja Regional Court, issued on March 31, Al-Yousef first attacked the girl on a bench<\/strong> near the Edge Hotel. He then continued his assault in a covered bicycle parking area at the harbor. The court ruled that the attack was humiliating and exploitative in nature, as it took place in a public space shortly after their first meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The perpetrator initially denied having met the victim or appearing on the security cameras.<\/strong> Later, he admitted to having met and kissed her, but continued to deny any sexual contact.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, the police found semen on the asphalt, and DNA testing unquestionably linked it to Al-Yousef. The court deemed his defense entirely unreliable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The judges also noted that the accused should have been aware of the girl\u2019s age. The 13-year-old herself stated that she was born in 2008, while a witness emphasized that she visibly looked very young.<\/strong> In a previous testimony, Al-Yousef had said that the girl looked young and was compared to the age of his younger sister, who was born in 2010.<\/p>\n

The rationale behind the outrage and the… pedophile law<\/h2>\n

Psychiatric evaluations played a decisive role in the sentence. One report indicated an IQ of 41, while a later one placed it between 64 and 75. The court found that the 21-year-old, who was 19 years and 8 months old at the time of the incident, had mild intellectual disability and a diminished understanding of reality.<\/strong> The judges specifically mentioned that his development did not seem more advanced than that of the victim.<\/p>\n

The decision also highlighted the recent change in Norwegian legislation, which as of July 2025 abolished the minimum three-year sentence for the rape of children under 14 years old!<\/strong><\/p>\n

In other words, a change that essentially removes the minimum penalty so that pedophiles can… \u201cget off lightly.\u201d<\/strong> Can you explain this amendment differently?<\/p>\n

The court started from a base sentence of two years,<\/strong> which it then significantly reduced taking into account the above \u201cmitigating\u201d factors!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The case has sparked discussions about how Norwegian courts weigh factors such as the intellectual condition of the perpetrator in cases of sexual violence against minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 21-year-old Syrian refugee was sentenced to only six months for raping a 13-year-old in Norway, as courts reduced punishment citing his low IQ and a recent law lowering minimum sentences for child rape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[489,138,149,490,492,493,491],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abdelmonem-abdelrazak-al-gyusef","tag-migrants-criminality","tag-migration","tag-norway","tag-norwegian-courts","tag-norwegian-law","tag-tromso","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}