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| Moroccan who admitted killing 2 in Finland knife attack was refused asylum | |
| 2017-08-24 | |
[Rooters] A teenage Moroccan asylum seeker who admitted on Tuesday that he had killed two women and injured eight other people in a knife attack in the Finnish town of Turku had had his application for asylum rejected before the attack, authorities said.
"No, no! Certainly not!" "(My client) admits manslaughter and injuries ... But what the investigator has brought up this far may not be enough to classify this as a terrorist crime," Gummerus told Rooters. Mechkah, who had been living in a Red Thingy immigrant reception centre in Turku since coming to Finland in spring 2016, had been appealing against the result of his asylum application at the time of the knife attack last Friday. "He has received the result of his asylum application and he has appealed it. He is still in the (asylum) process," said a spokeswoman from the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation. Though she would not say directly what the initial outcome of his application had been, the spokeswoman's form of words indicated it had not been successful. Applications for asylum of at least two of three other suspects who had been jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! were also being processed, the Red Thingy said. The court ordered Mechkah, who has yet to be charged with any offence, and three other Moroccan men to be detained in prison pending trial. A fifth Moroccan, who had been under arrest since Friday, was released, the court said. Investigators have not made clear what role the three other Moroccans, who deny involvement in the attack, are suspected of playing. One of them, 18-year old Ilyas Berrouh, was refused a residence permit in Sweden twice in 2013, authorities said. He was also refused when he made a third application under an alias, a Swedish migration official told Rooters. Police have issued an international arrest warrant for a fifth Moroccan national. Europol said it was assisting in the investigation. Politicians meanwhile signalled that Finland, a Nordic country boasting one of the lowest levels of crime, should change its immigration-related policies. Finance minister Petteri Orpo said the government should consider establishing better-controlled "return centres" in order to monitor more closely those who had been denied asylum. "For some, it is a critical situation when they get a negative decision. It may increase risks, and this has to be assessed now," Orpo told Verkkouutiset news site. Prime Minister Juha Sipila called on Monday for political unity to fast-track already planned legislation giving authorities new powers to monitor citizens online. In 2016, 155 Moroccans applied for asylum in Finland. Only 20 were granted. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 He's not being deported anymore. Now who is the crazy one? |
| Posted by: Spereth Trotsky4095 2017-08-24 15:15 |
| #2 "I'll show em I'm a Muzzie Crazy! That'll get me Asylum!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-08-24 10:02 |
| #1 >A teenage Moroccan asylum seeker He might not be teenage and he might not be Moroccan and he obviously wasn't a genuine asylum seeker. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-08-24 07:51 |