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| Arsonists Attack Another Migrant Center in Sweden |
| 2015-10-21 |
| [AnNahar] Arsonists attacked asylum seekers' housing in the small town of Munkedal in southern Sweden early Tuesday, the latest in a wave of attacks as migrant numbers, and tensions, rise. Since the start of the year, 15 arson attacks throughout the country have targeted refugee reception centers and apartments, reducing some to cinders. "A civilized country like Sweden cannot accept that housing centers of asylum seekers should become prey to arsonists." Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said on Twitter Tuesday. Local inquiries have been launched, but the national police authority NOA could get involved if links are established between the various attacks, said police spokeswoman Carolina Ekeus. The latest attack in the small hours of Tuesday morning occurred at normally tranquil Munkedal, a town of 10,000 inhabitants in southwestern Sweden. No one was maimed, although some of the 14 migrants living there suffered slight smoke inhalation. They were swiftly rehoused. "I thought I was going to die, it was horrible, but now it's OK, I'm safe," said Ahmet, a Somalian refugee interviewed by Swedish public radio SR. In ten of the recent spate of cases, criminal intent has been established beyond doubt. On June 19, two Molotov cocktails were hurled at a building housing migrants. On August 16 a Christian cross was set ablaze near a migrant center and, the same day, another center was evacuated after the discovery of a bag containing flammable liquid. That center, in the central town of Arboga, housed two Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n migrants who were accused of a knife attack at an Ikea store three days earlier that left a 55-year-old woman and her 28-year-old son dead. Sweden, which is home to 9.8 million people, is one of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... countries that has taken in the largest number of refugees as a proportion of its population. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said last week that up to 150,000 people could seek asylum this year in the Scandinavian country, which is struggling to find housing for the new arrivals. In the first nine months of the year, more than 73,000 people applied for asylum in Sweden. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 If only there was any area near to Europe that had miles and miles and miles of unoccupied space and the few people that lived there were accepting of Islamic beliefs. /sarc |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-10-21 14:53 |
| #3 What P2K said. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-10-21 12:56 |
| #2 A civilized country would have leaders who understood 'consent of the governed' and didn't try to |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-10-21 11:16 |
| #1 "A civilized country like Sweden cannot accept that housing centers of asylum seekers should become prey to arsonists." A truly civilized country would even never consider letting a bunch of homicidal sociopaths in. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-21 01:49 |