Overview
- Prosecutors asked for a ten-year prison term Tuesday during the trial in Ångermanland where a man is accused of systematically forcing his wife into prostitution.
- The indictment charges aggravated pimping, rape and bodily harm and says the woman was made dependent on drugs and alcohol and threatened or abused to control her.
- Prosecutors allege the woman was sold to about 120 men and that the defendant earned more than 500,000 Swedish kronor, roughly €46,000.
- The wife, described by prosecutors as vulnerable, is seeking about €100,000 in compensation and the defendant — arrested in October after her complaint — remains in pretrial detention and denies the claims.
- Under Swedish law the sale of sex by the seller is legal but buying sex and profiting from another's prostitution are crimes, a legal framework that has prompted media to compare the case to the high‑profile French Pelicot case.