Elin Krantz
Elin Terese Krantz (16 August 1983 – 26 September 2010) was a blonde-haired, blue eyed Swedish woman who was murdered in the Biskopsgården district of Gothenburg on 26 September 2010.[1] She was murdered in Biskopsgården where her body was found. Krantz supported colored immigration to Sweden.
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Death
In September 2010, Ephrem Tadele Yohannes (born 19 December 1987), a 23-year-old Ethiopian immigrant, raped her, killed her, and then threw her body among rocks. Ephrem had lived in the United States for a time and committed numerous crimes. Then he married an Ethiopian woman and immigrated to Sweden. In June 2011, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison and subsequent deportation. On 28 September 2010, Yohannes, with clothes and appearance similar to that of the man captured on the security cameras, was arrested by plainclothes policemen at Gothenburg Central Station. Krantz' DNA was found on his clothing and Yohannes' DNA was found on her body.
Krantz's body was interred at the Sankt Olof kyrkogård cemetery in her hometown of Falköping. In October 2010, over 1000 people gathered in the district – where her body was found – to commemorate her and to protest the hideous crime.
Trial
Yohannes was convicted for murder and attempted rape and sentenced to a mere 16 years in prison and subsequent deportation. The first sentence was appealed to the Hovrätt as the accused pleaded innocence. The prosecutor Stina Lundberg argued for a life sentence and aggravated sexual assault. In the autumn of 2011, the Court of Appeals upheld the original sentence. During the Hovrätt court proceeding, news broke that the wife and children of Yohannes had left Europe due to several threats to their lives. The parents of Elin Krantz and her five siblings were awarded criminal damages of around €60,000. Yohannes was initially imprisoned in Norrtäljeanstalten, a high security prison in Norrtälje, but after attacking a fellow inmate he was transferred to Salbergaanstalten prison in Sala. Yohannes has received several warnings for inappropriate behaviour.
