Swedish Home Care Scandal: Syrian Migrant Filmed Himself Torturing Elderly Patients While Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’

Video evidence captured by the suspect himself shows repeated humiliation, physical torment, and religious taunts directed at frail pensioners, some in their 90s, one aged 99. Two of the victims have since died.

Al Khleef Almasalmeh, now a Swedish citizen since 2018, worked as a nursing assistant for Örebro municipality’s home care program. Despite a prior criminal record for violent gang-related offenses, including the pistol-threatened humiliation and assault of Swedish youths in Värmland, he was hired in March 2025 and allowed to remain in direct contact with elderly patients long after police launched an investigation into his conduct.

Police footage, obtained from Almasalmeh’s own recordings, paints a chilling picture of cruelty:

• To a 90-year-old woman: “You look like a monkey,” followed by a torrent of insults in Arabic: “Oh, you whore. I swear I will curse you… Eat shit, whore!” and the threat, “I swear to Allah, I will let you freeze!”
• An elderly man was doused with ice-cold water while being called the “son of a whore,” with Almasalmeh repeating the freeze threat…