PRODUCTION: SVT
DISTRIBUTION: SVT
COUNTRY: Sweden
YEAR: 2024
LENGTH: 8'
DIRECTED BY: Ellen Pan, Markus Ljungholm, Joanna Ask

Twenty-year-old Swedish girl Tilde got into a taxi after an evening out with friends in Stockholm and was raped by the driver. The investigation by the public broadcaster SVT shows that her case is far from isolated, and that similar incidents are unfortunately very common in the Scandinavian country. Between 2022 and 2023, at least one hundred sexual assaults were committed in public and private taxis, proving the existence of a widespread and dangerous phenomenon. The modus operandi is almost always the same: taxi drivers pick up women outside bars, perhaps with a high alcohol level, and then take them to secluded places, lock the doors and assault them in the car.