In July 2017, two unknown perpetrators broke into Ruth Bonde's home in Dianalund and threatened the family's life.Five out of six Croatian nationals were on Wednesday found guilty of a series of aggravated home robberies and burglaries in the period from 2015 to 2017.In several cases, the victims were either threatened, beaten or tied up and thus deprived of their liberty for several hours.One of the victims is 75-year-old Ruth Bonde from Dianalund.At five in the morning on July 20, 2017, unknown perpetrators broke into her home.The perpetrators had taken a ladder from the garage and placed it against the outer stairs of the house, after which they stood on a canopy before breaking the window into the attic.They crawled in and moved down the stairs and into the living room.In the dark room, the daughter Rikke lay on a dark gray plush sofa and slept.- They came into the room here, and then they went to my daughter and strangled her.They put their fingers on her neck and held her by the nose.One person also pressed her knee against her chest so she could not breathe, says Ruth Bonde.- Rikke bit him well enough in the fingers, but he was wearing leather gloves, so he did not feel it so much.Subsequently, one of the men ripped the door open to an adjoining room where Ruth Bonde was staying.- Then he just shouted that he should have money, money, money!The perpetrators were dressed in black fleece clothing and black rubber shoes with white soles.And then they had black hair and dark eyes.- They were not Danes.You could clearly see that.They claimed they were Arabs, but they were not dark enough in the skin, says Ruth Bonde.- I guess I was told he was an idiot.He got really mad and then he hit me hard in the eye.It happened so fast that I hardly noticed that I was being beaten.I could feel it afterwards as the eye swelled up so I could no longer open it.Ruth Bonde's daughter had told the home robbers that there was a safe in the house.- My daughter had said we had a safe.I think I could have talked them out of it if she had not said so.But now she had said it.The perpetrators were very interested, and Ruth Bonde was led to the room where the safe stood.Afterwards, one of the robbers ordered Ruth Bonde to lie down while pointing in the direction of a sofa in the living room.- Then I said no and he said "can not you hear what I say? Lie down!".- I sat down on the floor and placed my hands on my back.I could see how they had tied Rikke.They had cut the telephone cord over and tied it tightly around the wrists.But because my hands were not so tightly bound, I could more easily get free.The robbers also tied her feet.- I assessed the situation, and thought that this I would not find myself in. So I got angry and I scolded.It was not nice what I said.Nor should it be at that time.Ruth Bonde's daughter Rikke already had a depression and a muscle disease, but after the robbery she did not become herself again.- Rikke was very, very affected by it.She never got really well.She suffered a cardiac arrest later, which was related to the burglary.I could feel it.I know her so well.She's my daughter.Today, the daughter is staying in a nursing home with 24-hour supervision.- It also affects my life, because now I have even more to think about.You constantly feel like you are stepping into a wall.Although four Croatian family members and their mutual friend were found guilty of 24 home robberies on Wednesday, that is not the decisive sentence being put for Ruth Bonde.- There's nothing that can make me feel better.I just need some time.If my daughter gets a little better and she becomes a human again, it helps a little on that.Then I will also get better, she says.However, the 75-year-old pensioner from Dianalund maintains that the home robbery should not affect everything in her life.- I do not want to find myself in it.I have my life and it must continue to be as it has always been, says Ruth Bonde.Today's prison sentences of eight, 12 and 15 years, respectively, as well as deportation of Denmark to the guilty are a small consolation for her.- I think it's unfair.Such a thing must not happen, and such a thing no one must be exposed to.Think of the others who have been exposed to pretty much the same thing as us.It's quite awful.There are some who have it much harder than me.