A controversial judgment in an assault trial has sparked debate about Sweden's legal system after The Local first broke the news about the ruling.
The Local revealed on Friday that a Stockholm-based man had been acquitted of an alleged assault against his wife from 2015 because his guilt could not be proven. The ruling, pushed through by two lay judges on a divided court, argued it was "not uncommon for women to falsely claim they have been assaulted" in order to get an apartment. It also said the man appeared to come from a "good ******, unlike hers".
The judgment also said, apparently referring to the couple's foreign background, that the woman was less credible for having reported the assault to the police rather than attempting to resolve it within the ****** which it said would have been "the normal thing in 'these circles'".
